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Edward Hyams

The International Symposium on the Short Story, Part Four

Winter 1970

England

By Edward Hyams

Nobody writes sonnets now; or, if they do, nobody reads them. Tomorrow, nobody will write short stories. Not that I have ever favored the view that the short story is […]

Nonfiction

Summer 1962

Peyrefitte

By Edward Hyams

I don’t pretend to know why English language writers usually have soft centers: the peoples who, for some unfathomable reason, are known as Anglo-Saxon shrink from beholding themselves and mankind […]