Flowering Judas, and Other Stories is Katherine Anne Porter’s first collection of published short stories, originally released in 1930 and then revised with the addition of a few new stories five years later. Since that initial publication, one of...
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is an excellent introduction into the literary technique known as “stream of consciousness” for the uninitiated. Stream of consciousness is a device by which the writer provides not just a description of the...
Katherine Anne Porter particularly detested the word "novella", considering it an insult, at best. It was akin to calling a shovel a digging implement; Pale Horse, Pale Rider was generally classified by critics and reviewers as a novella, but...
"Ship of Fools" is the only novel of the American writer Katherine Anne Porter, published in 1962.
The idea of the novel was born during her voyage from Mexico to Europe in 1931. To the work on a book Porter launched ten years later and had been...
