In her two novels, Virginia Pye wrote about China, but things are different with her short story collection. The nine tales in “Shelf Life of Happiness” are all set in the modern-day United States, ...

Since we launched the reimagined Sunday StarNews in December 2024, we’ve been publishing a weekly inspirational story. Renee Spencer, our community engagement editor, has written the vast majority of ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Watching short inspirational videos may be just as effective at reducing stress as meditation, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. Stress has arguably reached ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...