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Story A Day: “Black” by Paul Cain

I picked up the Centipede Press edition of Paul Cain’s works, The Complete Slayers, after reading Michael Dirda’s review in […]

Another Stanley Ellin story, one that originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine in 1968 and was a finalist for

A quick post today, given an intensely busy schedule (a final meeting with an independent study student, another two dozen

Barb Goffman, a friend and fellow short story writer, has been a finalist for several of the top awards in

While checking off a few very short stories over the last couple of days (see previous posts), my wife, Tara,

In her Washington Post review of Karen Russell’s story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove, novelist and critic Elizabeth Hand

Second up in my promise to read a story a day in the month in the month of May is Sheila

May 1 kicks off the “first organized international Short Story Month,” inspired by the StoryADay in May writing challenge. There’s

Art Taylor / April 25, 2013

I’ll be part of several events at this year’s Malice Domestic Convention, May 3-5 at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda,

Art Taylor / April 13, 2013

I’m so pleased to have been invited to participate in the 10th annual CityLit Festival up in Baltimore—and on such

Art Taylor / April 1, 2013

I’m honored, awed, and humbled to have won a third Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society—this year in

Art Taylor / March 24, 2013

As I write in my Washington Post review of the new novel Six Years, Harlan Coben has long since established himself