X. P. Callahan (@xpcallahan): "Exactly. If it’s finished, it has reached its full length. As I never tire of saying. Related: the notion that a collection of short stories is a warm-up for a novel. Short stories have more in common with poems and essays than any of these three genres has with the genre of th…"

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Exactly. If it’s finished, it has reached its full length. As I never tire of saying.

Related: the notion that a collection of short stories is a warm-up for a novel. Short stories have more in common with poems and essays than any of these three genres has with the genre of the novel.

Many people think that a chapbook is some kind of junior varsity version of a “full length” book, or some kind of lesser book that people settle on if they can’t publish a “full length” book.

Sean Singer

Dec 20

4:07 PM

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