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Ali Smith 1st October 2008
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On the playful art of the short story

The award winning novelist Ali Smith has just published her fourth collection of short stories, 'The First Person and Other Stories'. Jane talks to her about the different challenges of writing in the two forms, her literary inventiveness, and the appeal of the short story.

'The First Person and Other Stories' by Ali Smith is published by Hamish Hamilton, ISBN-13: 978-0241144268
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