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May 12, 2026
More than a century on, Katherine Mansfield’s stories still feel startlingly alive — sharp, intimate, and alert to the quiet dramas unfolding just beneath everyday life. Join bestselling author Sloane Crosley and a group of distinguished writers for a celebration of her remarkable life, and the new edition of The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield.
“No writer has made quotidian treasures spring off the page quite like Katherine Mansfield,” writes Sloane Crosley in her new introduction to Mansfield’s Collected Stories. Imbuing everyday objects with poetic force, Mansfield’s attention to human folly was even sharper. With a keen eye on class, power, romance, marriage, and a fascination with the theater of social performance, Mansfield was a master of human psychology — revealing the chasms between who we think we are and who we appear to be. In spare, ironic, emotionally exact prose, she is buried in the DNA of modern short fiction. And she was the envy of her peers — “I was jealous of her writing,” wrote Virginia Woolf. “The only writing I have ever been jealous of.”
Don’t miss this celebration of The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield: exploring how her radical attention to interior life reshaped the short story, how her depictions of women, children, and outsiders continue to resonate, and why these stories — alive to beauty, cruelty, and contradiction — still feel as if they were written for our time.
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