Alex Clark, former editor of Granta, waxes lyrical about short stories.

When Alex Clark was editor of Granta she wrote an article for The Author titled 'In a Nutshell', succinctly summing up the importance of the short story, its decline in popularity, and what Granta is doing to reverse this trend.

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This article first appeared in the winter 2008 issue of The Author, the journal of The Society of Authors.

We are very grateful to Alex Clark and to The Society of Authors for granting us permission to reproduce this piece.

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