Short Stories

[Ghetta Life]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/25/books/25shor.html

You can't make a living as a writer of short stories. "Oddly, though, you 
can still make a pretty good living by teaching other people how to write 
short stories. The form survives - and even thrives, in a forced, hothouse 
sort of way - because it has become the instructional medium of choice in 
most of our writing programs. The majority of people who enroll in these 
programs want to be novelists, but novels don't lend themselves very readily 
to the workshop format, and so would-be novelists these days spend at least 
part of their apprenticeship working on stories."

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