What Happens if You Read 10,000 Short Stories

------------ Join the Seriously Well-Read Book Club on Patreon:   / randyray   ----------------------- 📬 Contact & Collaboration Voxer: rlray1584 Email: [email protected] ----------- The focus on this video is sister than usual because of the camera I used. my next video will have a sharper image, I promise. ------------ I mentioned two Booktubers who I admire very much in this video: ‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬ ‪@saintdonoghue‬ ------------ I also mentioned one of my previous videos about the Ray Bradbury Challenge here:    • I Started the Ray Bradbury Challenge   ------------ 00:00 Intro 02:40 Read what you own and Michael K Vaughan 03:25 The crazy question and the really big number 04:30 Criticism related to numbers and competition 05:25 Comparison to extreme sports 06:48 The numbers involved in na 10,000 hour shift story project 10:05 Anton Chekhov and 522 stories 10:47 The Best American Short Stories from 1911 til now 12:20 100 Books vs 10,000 short stories, breath vs depth 13:25 Speed dating authors 14:15 Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Thomas M. Disch 15:13 Pattern recognition and human behavior 16:24 Would Steve Donoghue b think this is impossible!? 20:00 Different readers like different stuff 20:40 Flash fiction, novelettes, novellas, novels 24:19 Reading the same authors vs reading LOTS of different authors 25:02 Short story writers (specialists) 26:15 Exploring world literature through short stories 31:10 F. Scott Fitzgerald and magazines 32:10 Ernest Hemingway at his best 32:40 Where to find 10,000 short stories 34:34 Alfred Hitchcock anthologies 37:00 200 years or literary tradition 38:45 Genres and the questions they ask and answer 41:33 Literary fiction and what it means to be alive 42:25 You're reading against the clock 43:50 Outro ------------ #ShortStories #Reading #Books #BookTube #ReadingChallenge #ClassicLiterature #Literature #Readers #BookLovers #RayBradbury