Celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Journal of the Short Story in English

The Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, founded by Ben Forkner, was launched in 1983 by the University of Angers Press with a colloquium devoted to criticism of the short story. As a Fulbright Fellow that year in Angers, I was witness to animated exchanges between Anthony Burgess and John Wain, as well as to a robust array of papers on the short story. A selection of these papers was published in the second number, along with a commentary by Anthony Burgess. Thi...