Short Story Magic Tricks

breaking down why great fiction is great

Skip to content
  • About
  • Short Story Magic Tricks
  • Magic Trick Index
  • Favorites
  • Top Fives
  • SSMT on Instagram
  • SSMT on Twitter
  • SSMT on Facebook

Tag: World War II

‘Horses Of The Night’ by Margaret Laurence

Horses Of The Night by Margaret Laurence, 1967 Continue reading →

November 25, 2020November 13, 2020 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 1960s, A Bird In The House, Canada, Canadian lit, Canadian literature, Horses In The Night, Margaret Laurence, World War II Leave a comment

‘Making It Home’ by Wendell Berry

Making It Home by Wendell Berry, 1992 Continue reading →

January 31, 2020January 17, 2020 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 1990s, American lit, American literature, analysis, criticism, fiction, Kentucky, Making It Home, Port William, short stories, Wendell Berry, World War II Leave a comment

‘Victory Over Japan’ by Ellen Gilchrist

Gilchrist, Ellen 1984

Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist, 1984 Continue reading →

November 26, 2019November 1, 2019 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 1980s, American lit, American literature, analysis, criticism, Ellen Gilchrist, fiction, short stories, Victory Over Japan, World War II Leave a comment

‘The Evolution Of Knowledge’ by Niccolo Tucci

tucci-niccolo-1947

The Evolution Of Knowledge by Niccolo Tucci, 1947 Continue reading →

November 11, 2019November 1, 2019 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 1940s, analysis, criticism, fiction, New York City, Niccolo Tucci, short stories, The Evolution Of Knowledge, World War II Leave a comment

‘Armistice’ by Bernard Malamud

Armistice by Bernard Malamud, 1940 Continue reading →

January 8, 2019December 26, 2018 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 1940s, American lit, American literature, analysis, Armistice, Bernard Malamud, criticism, fiction, New York City, short stories, World War II Leave a comment

‘Then We’ll Set It Right’ by Robert Gorham Davis

Davis, Robert Gorham

Then We’ll Set It Right by Robert Gorham Davis, 1943 Continue reading →

November 1, 2018October 29, 2018 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 1940s, American lit, American literature, analysis, criticism, fiction, Robert Gorham Davis, short stories, Then We'll Set It Right, World War II Leave a comment

‘Red’ by Maile Meloy

Red by Maile Meloy, 2002 Continue reading →

September 20, 2018August 24, 2018 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 2000s, American lit, American literature, analysis, criticism, England, fiction, Maile Meloy, Red, short stories, World War II Leave a comment

‘Cafeteria’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1968a

Cafeteria by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1968 Continue reading →

February 12, 2018February 2, 2018 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 1960s, American lit, American literature, analysis, Cafeteria, criticism, fiction, Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York City, short stories, World War II 1 Comment

‘The Displaced Person’ by Flannery O’Connor

The Displaced Person by Flannery O’Connor, 1954 Continue reading →

January 15, 2018January 2, 2018 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 1950s, American lit, American literature, analysis, criticism, fiction, Flannery O'Connor, Holocaust, short stories, Southern gothic, Southern literature, The Displaced Person, Trump, World War II 4 Comments

‘Henri Simon Leprince’ by Roberto Bolaño

Henri Simon Leprince by Roberto Bolaño, 1997 Continue reading →

September 15, 2017September 9, 2017 by bcw56 Categories: Short Story Magic TricksTags: 1990s, analysis, Chilean lit, Chilean literature, criticism, Europe, fiction, France, Henri Simon Leprince, Latin American lit, Latin American literature, Roberto Bolaño, short stories, World War II Leave a comment

Posts navigation

Older posts

Social

  • View shortstorymagictricks’s profile on Facebook
  • View @ShortStoryMT’s profile on Twitter
  • View shortstorymagictricks’s profile on Instagram

Enter your email address to follow this the magic tricks and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 788 other followers

Follow Short Story Magic Tricks on WordPress.com

Top Posts & Pages

'Everything' by Ingeborg Bachmann
'Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses' by Gabriel García Márquez
'ZZ's Sleep-Away Camp For Disordered Dreamers' by Karen Russell
'A Short Trip Home' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
'Mrs. Fortescue' by Doris Lessing
'Weekend' by Ann Beattie
'The Woman Of The House' by William Trevor
'The Rise Of Capitalism' by Donald Barthelme

Popular Authors on SSMT

Agatha Christie Alice Munro Ambrose Bierce Amy Hempel Ann Beattie Anton Chekhov Arthur Conan Doyle Barry Hannah Bernard Malamud Donald Barthelme Edgar Allan Poe Edith Wharton Edna O'Brien Ernest Hemingway Eudora Welty F. Scott Fitzgerald Flannery O'Connor Frank O'Connor George Saunders Grace Paley Guy de Maupassant Haruki Murakami Henry James James Joyce James Thurber John Cheever John O'Hara John Updike Jorge Luis Borges Joyce Carol Oates Junot Díaz Langston Hughes Leonard Michaels Lorrie Moore Maeve Brennan Mary Gaitskill Nathaniel Hawthorne O. Henry P.G. Wodehouse Patricia Highsmith Ray Bradbury Raymond Carver Sherman Alexie Sherwood Anderson Stephen King Stuart Dybek Tobias Wolff Vladimir Nabokov Willa Cather William Faulkner

SHORT STORY MAGIC TRICKS MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

Subscribe to the new Short Story Magic Tricks Monthly Newsletter

Blogs I Follow

  • Make Lists, Not War
  • Bookish Beck
  • The Mookse and the Gripes
  • ronlanhamwriting.wordpress.com/
  • Making A Long Story Short
  • think. write. inspire.
  • Jenny McPhee
  • elizabethdicesare.wordpress.com/
  • Time Enough At Last
  • Whispering Gums
  • writers’ writers' material
  • A short story a day review
  • We Minored in Film
  • Architecture Here and There
  • Lost In A Good Book
  • Fox on an Island
  • The Evening Reader
  • L A • F E I S T
  • The Red Pen of Doom
  • Christine Hanolsy
  • writingyourfeelings.wordpress.com/
  • Kait Gets Lit
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
Make Lists, Not War

The Meta-Lists Website

Bookish Beck

Read to live and live to read

The Mookse and the Gripes

Books and films from around the world

ronlanhamwriting.wordpress.com/

Poetry, Short Stories, Writing, Fiction, Blogging

Making A Long Story Short

Book, play, and TV reviews

think. write. inspire.

Where creativity and inspiration meet

Jenny McPhee

AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR

elizabethdicesare.wordpress.com/

Time Enough At Last

Musings from an avid reader who never has enough time to read.

Whispering Gums

Books, reading and anything else that comes to mind...with an Australian focus

writers’ writers' material

What i would like to read if i were a writer

A short story a day review

We Minored in Film

Geeking Out Over Film & TV

Architecture Here and There

Style Wars: classicism vs. modernism

Lost In A Good Book

Fox on an Island

Gabriola, BC

The Evening Reader

Thoughts on books to read in your spare time...

L A • F E I S T

likes you

The Red Pen of Doom

Conventional wisdom about writing is conventionally wrong.

Christine Hanolsy

Author

writingyourfeelings.wordpress.com/

Kait Gets Lit

Cancel