"A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction. In every episode, I get to discuss the short story form with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories.
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"A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction. In every episode, I get to discuss the short story form with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories.
Failed Summer Vacation (with the author, Heuijung Hur)
A Small, Good Thing
30 minutes
3 months ago
Failed Summer Vacation (with the author, Heuijung Hur)
In this episode I get to interview Heuijung Hur on her collection Failed Summer Vacation, which has recently been published in English with Scratchbooks. Listen to Heuijung talk about her favourite stories in the collection and what it feels like to read her own work in translation.
Works cited: Heuijung Hur, Failed Summer Vacation, trans. by Paige Aniya Morris (Scratchbooks, 2025). George Saunders, Tenth of December (Bloomsbury, 2013). Han Yujoo, The Impossible Fairy Tale, trans. by Janet Hong (Graywolf Press, 2017). Gu Byeong-mo, The Old Woman with a Knife, trans. by Chi-Young Kim (Canongate Books, 2022). Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, trans. by Jamie Chang (Scribner, 2016). Ivan Turgenev, First Love, trans. by Isaiah Berlin (Penguin Classics, 2004).
Podcast intro and outro credits: Shield, Leroy, Taylor Holmes, and Robert W Service. The shooting of Dan McGrew. 1923. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.
A Small, Good Thing
"A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction. In every episode, I get to discuss the short story form with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories.
