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TEXAS READS: Short story collections a delight

By admin | Published: August 10, 2012

Two creative Texas writers have new collections of short stories that offer something for a variety of ages, interests and tastes. San Antonio’s Naomi Shihab Nye, better known for her poetry than prose, is the author of “There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories” (Greenwillow Books, $16.95 hardcover, 208 pages), a book for [...]

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Very short stories

By admin | Published: January 25, 2012

THERE IS NO LONG DISTANCE NOW: VERY SHORT STORIES BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE HARPERCOLLINS CHILDREN’S BOOKS, $16.99 “Only connect!” the great 20th-century novelist E.M. Forster urged, and it is a message beautifully brought home to us now, more than 100 years later, by Naomi Shihab Nye in her radiant gem of a book, “There is [...]

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