A Small, Good Thing
Episodes
Flash Fiction and Three-Dimensional Story Worlds (with Shelley Roche-Jacques)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shelley Roche-Jacques is a poet, flash fiction writer and Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University (UK). In this episode, Sh...
Like Old Photographs in Second-hand Books (With Nicholas Royle)
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Royle is a short story writer, a novel writer, the editor of the Best British Short Stories series. In this episode, I get to chat with him a...
William Saroyan: Life at Full Volume (with Scott Setrakian)
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Setrakian is the president of the William Saroyan Foundation. At the time we recorded this interview, he had just come back from Armenia, where ...
More Facts and Fiction of Short Story Writing (with Ailsa Cox) [Part Two]
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ailsa Cox is a professor Emerita at Edge Hill University (UK) and a short story writer. In this second part of the interview we discuss famous pieces ...
The Facts and Fiction of Short Story Writing (with Ailsa Cox) [Part one]
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ailsa Cox is a Professor Emerita at Edge Hill University (UK) and a short story writer. In this first part of the interview, we discuss famous claims ...
The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story (with Andrew Levy)
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Levy is professor of English and Creative Writing and the Edna Cooper Chair of English at Butler University in Indiana (USA). In this episode, ...
Short Fiction and Knowledge for Living (with Michael Basseler)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does the short story form contribute to our understanding of life and the world? To find out, listen to this episode of the podcast, in which I ge...
Failed Summer Vacation (with the author, Heuijung Hur)
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I get to interview Heuijung Hur on her collection Failed Summer Vacation, which has recently been published in English by Scratchbooks...
Contact Zones (with Michael Collins)
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Collins is Reader in American Studies at King’s College, London and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story (2024)....
[Part Two] Lucia Berlin: Laundromats and Missing Puzzle Pieces (with Elizabeth Geoghegan)
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this two-part episode, I have the privilege of chatting about Lucia Berlin’s short fiction with writer (and Lucia Berlin’s personal friend) Eli...
[Part One] Lucia Berlin: Laundromats and Missing Puzzle Pieces (with Elizabeth Geoghegan)
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this two-part episode, I have the privilege of chatting about Lucia Berlin’s short fiction with writer (and Lucia Berlin’s personal friend) Eli...
Flannery at the Grammys: Flannery O'Connor and Popular Culture (with Irwin Streight)
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Prof. Irwin Streight (Royal Military College of Canada) discusses the unexpected legacy of short story writer Flannery O'Connor on po...
Cat Scratches and DeLoreans: On Publishing Short Fiction (with Tom Conaghan)
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Tom Conaghan, founder of Scratch Books! In this episode, I ask Tom what it takes and what it's like to run a publisher entirely dedicated to shor...
Introducing "A Small, Good Thing"
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Intro credits: Shield, Leroy, Taylor Holmes, and Robert W Service. The shooting of Dan McGrew. 1923. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.