How to read a news (and where to find)

The quick response is that I didn’t know how to read them. The things I learned in school on reading news were all focused on the technical aspects of the news. Although interesting, they didn’t help me appreciate Short stories. I didn’t want to think about the technical aspects of the news, I just wanted to have fun reading them.

Part of the problem is that I always liked long fiction. The novels, especially the big giants, call me. I am largely a reader focused on the characters. Obviously, short stories are, well, short. This means that the character’s development and intrigue necessarily take place at a different pace from short stories than in novels. But different does not mean bad.

Expectations

My expectations were simply unrealistic. After all, if you order waffles and expect to receive pancakes, you will be disappointed. The same goes for the news: if you take a news and you expect to read a novel, you will not get what you are looking for.

So what can Do you expect? Incredible things, I hope. My goal here is to help you find the types of news you love. It took me a long time to understand how to do this for myself, and I hope that by sharing a little what I learned, you can jump the wait.

Two collections of news – Helen Oyeyemi What is not yours is not yours And Charles Yu Sorry please thank you – helped me make how much I appreciate the news.

These collections called me for various reasons. Oyeyemi’s collection is organized around the keys (sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical). When I read that in the description of the book, I was fascinated. Oyeyemi’s book is not the only one organized around a central concept or an image like this, it is just the first with which I connected.

As for the Yu collection, it was the premise in the heart of each news that fascinated me. A call center where employees are paid to feel the pain of the appellants? Wow. Each of his stories is this way – building from a very original and completely unexpected premise (for this reader).

I guess what I try to say is that to read a new one, it helps to think about what you like. It seems obvious, I know, but let me explain to you.

What are you looking for?

Some people are attracted to particular genres of writing, such as fantasy, romance, science fiction, westerns or other genres. If it’s you, try looking for stories that align with your gender preferences.

Or maybe you are the kind of reader who likes to read the works of authors with which you can identify yourself, or which offer you ways to think of identities other than yours. If this is the case, there are many anthologies and publications that collect stories by writers of different backgrounds.

Maybe you like stories that help you think about certain problems. As with identities, there are many places that you can find news focused on specific social, cultural or political issues.

Maybe most of everyone, what are you in mood? I often find that this is the most effective question. Do you want something scary? Contemplative? Comfortable? Extraordinary? There is a collection or magazine that is used exactly what you’re looking for.

Where to find short stories

There are many ways to get your hands on short stories. Internet is a treasure. You can subscribe to online magazines. Some of the big names are The New Yorker,, The AtlanticAnd The Revue de Pariseach having a long history of fictional publication; You can read a handful of parts for free on these websites before facing a payment wall.

Another paid path to news is to buy a book – either an anthology or a collection.

Curate anthologies operates from different authors in a single book. Each year, you can find a book of American news published in various places in the previous calendar year in the form of (for this year) The best American news from 2024. Likewise, you could take the volume recently released and very heavy A century of fiction in the New Yorker: 1925-2025 Like a large starting point for new, classic and contemporary.

Many novelists also publish news, so if there are writers whose books you like, then you could be lucky and discover that they have also published one or two collections of news. These will be stories that are all written by the same author, then linked to a book (like those of Oyeyemi and Yu that I mentioned above). Two of this recent work that has attracted a lot of positive attention are Mariana Enriquez A sunny place for shaded people And Gina Chung Green frog.

Personally, I am a big fan of some of the websites and online magazines that make free stories available to readers. Electric literature is one of my favorite sites for free fiction. Magazines like Strange horizons (speculative fiction), Cauchemardesque magazine (horror), and Reactive magazine (Sci-fi and fantasy). (If you want even more places to find free news online, see this list of resources.)

If there is a particular author that you like, it is worth clicking on their website to see if they have published a short fiction. One of my favorite authors, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, constantly publishes news in a wide range of publications and a quick trip to Its website provides links to some of these stories. Finding this way can connect you directly to the works of an online specific author, and it has the additional advantage of presenting you online places where you can locate stories by other writers whose works share similarities with a work of beloved writer.

So wherever you go to satisfy your desire for news, I hope I have provided you some strategies to locate the stories that will appeal to your particular tastes. Take advantage of a few news in May and perhaps-just perhaps-beyond!