Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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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.
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I mentioned two Booktubers who I admire very much in this video:

@michaelk.vaughan8617

@saintdonoghue
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I also mentioned one of my previous videos about the Ray Bradbury Challenge here:

youtu.be/gAVatIXaNsk
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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
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