tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post8111786987645876337..comments2023-09-25T05:45:41.437-07:00Comments on The Art of Fiction: Style and the Short StoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-31298793601009458042015-10-19T01:02:30.309-07:002015-10-19T01:02:30.309-07:00Hi many thanks for the comment. I look forward to ...Hi many thanks for the comment. I look forward to the two volumes. I had looked in vain for a contents list so I was just going on the blurb as I'd read it. So modernism is in the first volume, not the second, that's interesting. I'd hope Lawrence would be top of any list, but this kind of emphasizes my point a little, that our best stories are perceived to be in the (distant) past. I will be interested to see the choices from the last fifty years in particular.Adrian Slatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13946068316432524571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-36814616839720052472015-10-18T13:22:33.739-07:002015-10-18T13:22:33.739-07:00Dear Mr Slatcher,
Thank you for your comments abo...Dear Mr Slatcher,<br /><br />Thank you for your comments about my forthcoming Penguin Book of the British Short Story. The point of the two volumes was to survey the entire history of the British short story. Volume 1 goes up to 1930, so some way beyond the Edwardians. It was certainly very difficult to make a selection from contemporaries, but since my duty was to produce a survey of the entire history of the form, much of which remains swathed in utter obscurity, it was not going to be appropriate to give the present day more than a certain amount of space. I very much hope at some point in the future to produce a substantial anthology of short stories from the last twenty years. In the meantime, it would have been an utter dereliction of duty to have found space for a fashionable contemporary of limited ability at the expense of D.H.Lawrence. I hope you find things to enjoy in the anthology.<br /><br />Philip HensherAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02944463012173340916noreply@blogger.com