But the exercises, writing long and short fiction, are, I find, very different.

They have a consuming force that makes long fiction seem somehow superfluous.

Besides long fiction he has also written stories, plays, reviews and essays.

Technically, these stories are less elaborate than Ms. Gordimer's longer fiction.

Following his work on comic books, he returned to longer fiction with a series of pulp fiction novels, short stories, and a 2001 play.

The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime.

Critical survey of long fiction: Foreign language series.

Keillor obviously changed his mind about the possibilities of longer fiction, but he also tried to carry his old style forward.

Flint is also co-author of all the long fiction in the series.

Her work includes over seventy stage, radio, and television plays; additionally, works of both long and short fiction.