Capsule Stories’ Most Anticipated Books of 2023
Check out the books that the staff readers of Capsule Stories are looking forward to this year! You can also view this list on Bookshop.… Read More »Capsule Stories’ Most Anticipated Books of 2023
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The Reader: On Hibernation in a Florida Winter
By Vicki Roberts The Reading Woman calendar hangs on my office wall at June even though we’ve passed that several months over. I justify it… Read More »The Reader: On Hibernation in a Florida Winter
The Thing with Feathers: Finding Hope in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry During My Dad’s Cancer Treatment
By Kathryn Rice Emily Dickinson’s most famous lines are painted in gold italics on the wall, just outside the waiting room: “Hope is the thing… Read More »The Thing with Feathers: Finding Hope in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry During My Dad’s Cancer Treatment
Capsule Stories Nominations for 2023 Best of the Net Anthology
Capsule Stories is proud to announce our nominations for the 2023 Best of the Net anthology. The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology… Read More »Capsule Stories Nominations for 2023 Best of the Net Anthology
Healing Heartbreak with Elif Batuman’s The Idiot
By Rachel A.G. Gilman When I started reading Elif Batuman’s The Idiot, one of my best friends asked why I was being such a masochist.… Read More »Healing Heartbreak with Elif Batuman’s The Idiot
Regaining My Own Power After Reading The Secret History of Wonder Woman
By Monica Anderson He wanted to watch Wonder Woman. So did I, but not badly. Not enough to carve out two and a half hours… Read More »Regaining My Own Power After Reading The Secret History of Wonder Woman
For the Birds: Listening to Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights Amid the Chickens
By Zoe Grace Marquedant I put my clothes, my phone, my duffle with proverbially everything I owned in the spare room. Set aside boots I… Read More »For the Birds: Listening to Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights Amid the Chickens
Kalisse L. Van Dellen on Structuring Her Essay “Baking Do” Around a Chocolate Cake Recipe
Kalisse L. Van Dellen writes about where she’s been and what she’s lost. She is a graduate of Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, and resides… Read More »Kalisse L. Van Dellen on Structuring Her Essay “Baking Do” Around a Chocolate Cake Recipe
The Complete Sherlock Holmes as a Frigate
By Jim Curtis “There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away,” the irredeemably landlocked Emily Dickinson once wistfully wrote. Immobilized… Read More »The Complete Sherlock Holmes as a Frigate
Announcing the Capsule Stories Best Small Fictions Nominations 2021
The Best Small Fictions is the first-ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year.… Read More »Announcing the Capsule Stories Best Small Fictions Nominations 2021