The American and the Southern Short Story: An Interview with Lisa Alther, Elizabeth Cox and Jill McCorkle

To celebrate the anniversary of the journal, the committee decided to reach out to three of its honorary members with questions about the art of the short story… Gérald Préher, for JSSE: Why do you think the American short story has remained popular?Lisa Alther: The American attention span has become more and more truncated, for all the obvious cultural reasons. Short stories can be ingested in one sitting, so they appeal to the current American psyche.Jill McCorkle: I like to think that the...