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
Walking Wounded (short story collection) in the cadences of common speech, and the inner sadness of his subjects' lives, while always reaffirming their fortitude and resilience." This book won the 1990 Glasgow Herald People's Prize. McIlvanney wrote a screenplay based on one of these stories, "Dreaming", which was filmed by BBC Scotland in 1990 and won a BAFTA. Walking Wounded (short story collection) Walking Wounded is a collection of short stories written by William McIlvanney and published in 1989. Following a revival of interest in McIlvanney's writing, this book was reissued by Canongate Books in 2014. This interwoven collection of stories is set in the