“ The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or three links. The short short, however, doesn't as a rule have even that much - you don't… Irving Howe
“ Let's press ahead a little further by sketching out a few variations among short shorts: ONE THRUST OF INCIDENT. (Examples: Paz, Mishima, Shalamov, Babel, W. C. Williams.) In these short shorts the ti… Irving Howe
“ Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality. Irving Howe
