title: The Art and Craft of Fiction: A Writer's Guide
author:  Michael Kardos 
description: <span>Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of the novels <i>Bluff</i> (coming 2018), <i>Before He Finds Her</i> (2015) and <i>The Three-Day Affair</i>, named by Esquire as a Best Book of 2012, and the story collection <i>One Last Good Time</i>, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction. He has a degree in music from Princeton University and played the drums professionally for a number of years before receiving his MFA from Ohio State and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. He currently lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State.</span><br /><br /><span>Visit michaelkardos.com for reading group guides and upcoming events.</span>
zlib_text: ART IN
  SHORT STORY
  NARRATION
  HENRY
  ALBERT
  PHILLIPS
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive
  in 2007 with funding from
  IVIicrosoft Corporation
  http://www.archive.org/details/artinshortstorynOOphilrich
  
  THE AUTHORS' HAND-BOOK SERIES
  Art In Short Story
  Narration
  A Searching Analysis of the Qualifications of Fiction
  in General, and of the Shc»rt Su^ry in Particular,
  with Copious Examples, Making the Work
  A PRACTICAL TREATISE
  BY
  HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS
  Aatbor of "Tbe Plot of tbc Short Stoir," and formerly Ataociatc
  Editor of the Metropoliuo Magmiioe
  limiODUCTtON BY
  REX BEACH
  Aatbor of -The Bwrter," ••Tb« SiWcr Hordo." "Tho
  No'er Do Well," eU.
  THE STANHOPE-DODGE PUBLISHING Ca
  LARCHMONT, NEW YORK
  
  Copyright, 1913, by
  HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS
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  TO
  MY SON
  ROBERT HENRY SHEPARD PHILLIPS
  A SOURCB OP CONSTANT INSPIRATION
  I OSDICATE
  THIS VOLUME
  268777
  
  OTHER VOLUMES IN
  THE AUTHORS'
  HAND-BOOK
  SERIES
  THE MECHANICS OF FICTION
  (Now
  in Preparation)
  by
  HENRY ALBERT PHILUPS
  Author of
  **A Complete Cour