Flash fiction can be anything from prose poems to lists, and in Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (Columbia University Press), David Galef ’81 offers tips on for writing within the genre, offering samples from writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Roxane Gay and prompts meant to inspire readers to write their own flash fiction. Galef is an English professor at Montclair State University. He is the author of more than 15 books, including novels Turning Japanese and Flesh, short-story collections My Date with Neanderthal Woman and Laugh Track, and poetry collections Flaws and Kanji Poems.
