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Film Courage: Are writers more likely to sell a novel or a short story?
Author/Instructor Jonathan Blum: Many more novels are sold in this country than short story collections, that seems to be American taste. If you go to other countries, that’s not the same proportions. There are definitely other countries that sell a higher percentage of short story collections so I would say you’re more likely, I’ll just leave it at that. Many more novels are sold in America than short stories are but I don’t know how many people are trying to write novels and how many people are trying to write short story collections. It’s hard to get a short story…it’s hard to get anything published and it’s hard to get a short story collection published in particular because there’s just not as much of a demand for them. I guess there are a lot of people that would like to have them. It took me quite a long time. From the time I published my first story until the time I published a book of stories, it was more than…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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About:
Jonathan Blum grew up in Miami and graduated from UCLA and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of two books of fiction: The Usual Uncertainties (Rescue Press, 2019), a story collection, and Last Word (Rescue Press, 2013), a novella. Both were named one of the best books of the year by Iowa Public Radio, and The Usual Uncertainties was named one of the 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2019 by Electric Literature. Blum has twice appeared on KCRW’s Bookworm. His short stories have been published in Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Northwest Review, Playboy, and Shanxi Literature, among others. His short story, “The White Spot,” which was published in Electric Literature with an introduction by Deborah Eisenberg, appears in the award-winning anthology The Best Peace Fiction (University of New Mexico Press, 2021). He has taught fiction writing at The University of Iowa, Drew University, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and is the recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland, and a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. He has also been a guest writer at the Tianjin Binhai New Area International Writing Program in China. He lives in Los Angeles.
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