Maëlle Dupon : voyage au cœur des sens by Marine Mazars

“…Maëlle Dupon is a multi-faceted author: poet, short story writer and translator. A Montrealer by adoption, she continues to express herself mainly in occitan and french. …”
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The Satirical Vision of Canadian/Scottish Songwriter, Poet, and Novelist Graeme Williamson by Victor Kennedy

“…Graeme Williamson, best known as the lead singer/songwriter of the 1980s Toronto New Wave band Pukka Orchestra, was also a poet, short story writer, and novelist. Born and raised in Canada, he moved to Scotland after a serious illness, and his works reflect his personal experience in developing themes of travel, alienation, loss, and awareness of mortality, using biting satire, caustic wit, and a clear insight into the darker reaches of the human psyche. …”
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Good Work and Good Works: Work and the Postsecular in George Saunders’s CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by Brian Jansen, Hollie Adams

“…Drawing on what American short story writer and novelist George Saunders has described as the urge toward kindness in his work, as well as its myriad allusions to Christian symbology and religiosity, this paper explores the intersection of languages of labour or “work” and religious tensions in Saunders’ oeuvre. …”
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The Rise of the “We” Narrator in Modern American Fiction by Ruth Maxey

“…Yet an increasing number of American novelists and short story writers have turned to this formal device over the past 20 years and particularly since 9/11. …”
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Linguistic methods of personality identification in the fiction text (using S.D. Dovlatov's works) by A.V. Bastrikov, E.M. Bastrikova

“…Dovlatov, a popular short-stories writer who became famous in the 1990s for his ironical word view and “sharp” language style. …”
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