Word: liana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...literature. "Story" may mean a series of events, a monologue, even a simple description with no characters at all. As for "short," it may signify a narrative of 10,000 words or a terse moral fable. In Short Shorts, Editor Irving Howe (World of Our Fathers) and his wife liana have decided to explore the far end of the genre. None of their selections requires more than eleven pages (D.H. Lawrence's A Sick Collier); some need four (Grace Paley's Wants). But the works are small only in measure. All contain social and psychological resonances that sound...