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Funny Short Stories

2 weeks ago | fivebooks.com | George Saunders |Lorrie Moore |David Sedaris |Katherine Heiny

Here at Five Books, we are often asked to recommend funny short story collections. This is a tall order. It’s unusually difficult to recommend comic writing—sense of humour being so specific to the individual—but here are five brilliantly original stories, from popular collections, all of which take a wry or surreal approach to their troubling subject matter. ‘Ghoul’ by George Saunders, in his collection Liberation Day: Stories George Saunders is a modern master of the short story.
Bookshelfie x Bryony Gordon - Women's Prize

2 months ago | womensprize.com | Arundhati Roy |Margaret Atwood |Curtis Sittenfeld |Katherine Heiny

Bryony Gordon is an author, journalist and mental health campaigner. She has written six Sunday Times bestselling books, including the number one bestsellers Mad Girl and You Got This. She founded Mental Health Mates, a peer support group that encourages people to move for their mental health, and in 2023 she was awarded the President’s Medal by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Katherine Heiny in conversation at Waterstones Piccadilly | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Sep 7, 2023 | waterstones.com | Katherine Heiny

No reader who has met Audra, the protagonist of Katherine Heiny’s 2017 cult classic Standard Deviation, is in danger of forgetting her any time soon. The characters who populate Heiny’s new collection are equally wonderful and vivid. Meet the author on her very first book visit to the UK, where she will discuss Games and Rituals.
‘I thought of all the times I’d had to shout and my heart shrivelled up’: life with my hearing-impaired father

Aug 12, 2023 | theguardian.com | Katherine Heiny

A simple enough thing: a phone call. My son calls me from army airborne school where he is learning to be a paratrooper. I can’t wait to hear how his first jump went. Someone I gave birth to has just leapt out of a plane and dropped 1,250ft to Earth – could any call be more exciting? But it’s a bad connection, and his voice is muffled and distorted. I can make out only every third word, and even then I’m guessing at what he might be saying.
GAMES AND RITUALS

Apr 18, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Katherine Heiny |Jeannette Walls

by Katherine Heiny ‧ Eleven stories exploring love, relationships, and occasionally regrettable behavior. After having written two novels focusing on lovably quirky young women—Standard Deviation (2017) and Early Morning Riser (2021)—Heiny returns to the short story format in which she distinguished herself with her debut, Single, Carefree, Mellow (2015).
Rereading: Vida by Marge Piercy review - what if you had to go on the run?

Apr 17, 2023 | thetimes.co.uk | Katherine Heiny

Vida. Vida. I think of her name at least once a month. She’s the eponymous protagonist of Marge Piercy’s brilliant 1979 novel, Vida, and a character who affects me like few others. Vida is a fugitive evading arrest for anti-Vietnam War bombings during the 1960s as part of a Weatherman-type group called The Little Red Wagon. Many people consider Vida to be one of the most important American political novels ever written.