Short story story, "Travel by Wire!" in 1937. Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and L.P. Hartley were other popular British storytellers whose career started in this period. In Ireland, James Joyce published his short story collection "Dubliners" in 1914. These stories, written in a more accessible style than his later novels, are based on careful observation of the inhabitants of his birth city. In the first half of the 20th century, a number of high-profile American magazines such as "The Atlantic Monthly", "Harper's Magazine", "The New Yorker", "Scribner's", "The Saturday Evening Post", "Esquire", and "The Bookman" published short stories in each issue. The
Pastoralia (short story collection) Pastoralia (short story collection) Pastoralia is short story writer George Saunders’s second full length short story collection, published in 2000. The collection received highly positive reviews from book critics and was ranked the fifth-greatest book of the 2000s by literary magazine "The Millions". The book consists of stories that appeared (sometimes in different forms) in "The New Yorker"; most of the stories were O. Henry Award Prize Stories. The collection was a "New York Times" Notable Book for 2001. "Pastoralia" received general acclaim from book critics. Chris Lehmann of Salon praised its relevance, calling Saunders a "master of distilling the