{"id":2659,"date":"2010-11-14T23:18:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T06:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/11\/frey-wears-short-shorts\/"},"modified":"2010-11-16T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T21:27:47","slug":"frey-wears-short-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/14\/frey-wears-short-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Frey Wears Short Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/11\/12\/131276783\/-hint-fiction-celebrates-the-extremely-short-story\" target=\"_blank\">from NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Hint Fiction&#8217; Celebrates The (Extremely) Short Story<\/h2>\n<p><em> NPR STAFF  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2010\/11\/12\/mini-book.jpg?t=1289599716&amp;s=2\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"right\" \/>Can you tell a whole story in 25 words or fewer? Inspired by the six-word novel attributed to Ernest Hemingway \u2014\u00a0&#8220;For sale: baby shoes, never worn&#8221; \u2014\u00a0Robert Swartwood has compiled a new anthology of bite-sized fiction.<\/p>\n<p>The stories in\u00a0<em>Hint Fiction<\/em>\u00a0are\u00a0short enough to be text messages, but the genre\u00a0isn&#8217;t defined only by its length. It&#8217;s characterized by the way the form forces readers to fill in the blanks, Swartwood tells NPR&#8217;s Scott Simon. Most fiction hints at a larger story, he says, but the brevity of these stories really challenges the reader&#8217;s imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The short stories in\u00a0<em>Hint Fiction\u00a0<\/em>were selected from more than 2,000 submissions \u2014 Swartwood started small, soliciting stories on his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertswartwood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc\">website<\/a>, but the contest grew in scope when publisher W.W. Norton got involved. The anthology also features the writing of well-known authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, Peter Straub and James Frey.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/11\/12\/131276783\/-hint-fiction-celebrates-the-extremely-short-story\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at NPR.org<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NPR &#8216;Hint Fiction&#8217; Celebrates The (Extremely) Short Story NPR STAFF Can you tell a whole story in 25 words or fewer? Inspired by the six-word novel attributed to Ernest Hemingway \u2014\u00a0&#8220;For sale: baby shoes, never worn&#8221; \u2014\u00a0Robert Swartwood has compiled a new anthology of bite-sized fiction. The stories in\u00a0Hint Fiction\u00a0are\u00a0short enough to be text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}