Tired Of Hitting Paywalls When You Try To Read Fiction In The New Yorker Or Other Magazines?
Try my list of eight great classic stories you can read for free
You think you’re fed up with those paywalls you hit when you want to read fiction online in a high-toned magazine like The New Yorker?
Try being a book critic and knowing you have to read a short story for your work but can’t break through the digital Fort Knox.
It can be maddening, and I wanted to help. I’ve rounded up eight classic stories in a post at Jansplaining, my Substack website-and-newsletter. I review each briefly and link to where you can read it online for free.
The stories come from Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shirley Jackson, James Baldwin, and others. They aren’t just among my all-time favorites. Some are among the best short stories ever written and deservedly among the most popular with readers.
Once I’ve mastered more of the not-always-intuitive tech at Substack, I hope to launch a monthly discussion group about stories like those at Jansplaining. It will be similar to one I co-lead Zoom for journalists and authors from around the U.S., but open to everybody, not just well-credentialed professional writers.
In the meantime, you can read my “Eight Great Classic Short Stories” post for free, too, along with others you won’t find on Medium. If you’d like to check it out, here’s a link to it on Jansplaining.
While you’re there, check out ByAlexMarkham, the brand-new Substack by Alex Markham, known for his rock, pop, and U.K.-travel writing on Medium, and Kevin Alexander, the owner of The Riff, who has thousands of Substack followers for his On Repeat Records.
