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I love shorts. Short fiction, short films, short people...
There's something beautiful about a story told sparsely and succinctly. I have often times gotten more out of a brief literary or filmic encounter than I have in the long-form, because there's no dead air, no thing to lean on, just one whole juicy bite.
I recommend the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (who also wrote The Namesake) - it won the Pulitzer in 200.
Another collection I love is Ryan Boudinot's The Littlest Hitler. He's cheeky - so cheeky that I never noticed the sucker-punch to my gut until my eyes were stinging.
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