Short Stories for Summer Reading

Looking for a summer book? The season brings a crop of new short-fiction collections

Endless summers don’t have to include endless stories.

The coming weeks are shaping up to be unusually busy for fans of short fiction. New collections arriving in the spring and summer will take readers from the swamps of Florida to poolside in Los Angeles, from a Brooklyn street party to a chat room for parakeet lovers, from the realm of time travel to the clutches of a hurricane.

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