January 1, 1968
Australia
The art of the short story is indigenous to Australia. It flourished with the Aborigines as they sat around their campfires or rested in the noon shade of rock or […]
January 1, 1968
South Africa
Why is it that while the death of the novel is good for post-mortem at least once a year, the short story lives on unmolested? It cannot be because—to borrow […]
January 1, 1968
Ireland
Frank O’Connor has gone the Long Road to Ummera as one of his people, an old woman, did in the moving story of that name when she made certain that […]
January 1, 1968
Canada
I’m amused and a little rueful to find myself making my first contribution to The Kenyon Review in this symposium, because I’ve been trying to place a story here, on […]
January 1, 1968
England
I love Ocean of Story, the name of an Indian treasury of story; that is the way I think of the short story and what is part of it, the […]
January 1, 1968
Editor’s Note
Christina Stead (England) Herbert Gold (United States) Erih Kǒs (Yugoslavia) Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) Benedict Kiely (Ireland) Hugh Hood (Canada) Henrietta Drake-Brockman (Australia) Carlo Cassola (Italy) Our first plan was […]
January 1, 1968
Yugoslavia
In answering your questions concerning the state of the short story in Yugoslavia, I should like to point out at the very beginning that the circumstances of our two countries […]
January 1, 1968
Italy
From the Italian. My literary formation goes back to the immediate prewar period. That was a time when good writers, whether poets or novelists, had no public in Italy. […]
January 1, 1968
United States
All public mourning about the plight of fiction circa 1968 is irrelevant, tendentious, and boring, and, in fact, is hereby prohibited, on pain of condemnation to solitary confinement in the […]