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I was immediately struck by the title of Curtis Sittenfeld’s new collection of 12 short stories, Show Don’t Tell. That’s because it’s also the name of a narrative technique that allows readers to experience a story through the characters’ actions, words, thoughts and feelings, rather than the author’s explanations. It…

In the American writer’s wry, understated second short story collection, the past comes back to jolt her largely middle-aged characters

After we published our list of the best beach reads, we asked readers for their suggestions – including ‘mercifully brief’ fantasy, raucous comedy and a crime thriller that’s ‘tense as hell’

A comedy sketch writer’s crush on a pop star sparks this witty take on the Hollywood romcom

Author Curtis Sittenfeld on falling hopelessly in love with a brave, beautiful and occasionally malodorous chihuahua named Weenie

The season has changed and a whole new crop of essential books are being unleashed

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Shy by Max Porter and Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld.

The bestselling Minneapolis author realized that her next book needed to be fun. And it is.

FICTION: A writer on a comedy show falls hard for one of the handsome guests.