<img class="size-medium wp-image-1311 lazyload" alt="Brad Windhauser is an author, teacher, and blogger." src="https://ericswyatt.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/brad.jpg?w=265" width="265" height="300" /> Brad Windhauser is an author, teacher, and blogger. We will start our week with Raymond Carver’s story, Cathedral, with an essay about the choices Carver made, as written by my friend, Brad Windhauser. * * * Authors make several decisions when it comes to choices they make in a

[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy Parker category tag.)[/su_note] Too Bad is the second story in Dorothy Parker’s Complete Stories. Like other Parker stories, this one examines the way things look and compares them to the way things really are. In this case, the story examines the breakup of Grace and Ernest Weldon, a couple married for seven years when suddenly they announc

[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy Parker category tag.)[/su_note] When I first started this blog, one of the things I wanted to do more often was quick re-caps of short fiction. One of the reasons I do these short story reviews is because this is how I learn from some of the classic short stories, and even from current short fiction featured in various online and print publi

The short story has long been a form with two primary purposes: Some stories are better told in a shorter format. The immediacy and punch of a well-crafted short story is suited to slices of life and moments of clarity and provides an outlet for tales that might otherwise become lost in the complexities of a novel-length work. Another advantage of short fiction is the freedom to experiment with form in ways that might become cumbersome and unmanageable in a longer work. Short

A year ago, I resurrected my old brand, Ernst Wiley Publications, in order to publish and promote a book about the political and economic turmoil of 2008 and in anticipation of deepening economic woes in 2009/2010. It was an interesting year. I sold some books, made new friends, spoke in front of large crowds, did a radio interview, received some kind reviews, and generally enjoyed the process. As I write this, my first blog under the title Stories I Read, Stories I Tell, I a