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  • Stories like a bale unrolling: a review of Conjugations of the Verb To Be

    Stories like a bale unrolling: a review of Conjugations of the Verb To Be

    Glen Chamberlain's short stories bring to life the people of a fictional Montana town.

    by Charles Finn, Sep 19, 2011
  • Living close to the bone in modern Alaska: A review of Bear Down, Bear North

    Living close to the bone in modern Alaska: A review of Bear Down, Bear North

    The short stories in Melinda Moustakis' book plunge the reader into the challenging world of contemporary Alaskans.

    by Alexa Mergen, Sep 18, 2011
  • Natural comfort

    Natural comfort

    It seems romantic to die alone in the wild, until you begin to lose the people you love

    by Ana Maria Spagna , Jun 12, 2009

  • Gunning with the in-laws

    Jonathan Thompson learns to love guns – and to fear them even more than he did before.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 03, 2007

  • Safe out there

    To an aging, mentally ill woman named Jade, the beautiful Colorado day is filled with sinister, frightening demons, and even a well-meaning neighbor can do nothing to drive them away.

    by Laura Pritchett, Apr 30, 2007

  • Selling peace on the street in Flagstaff, Arizona

    In front of the Flagstaff post office, Mary Sojourner talks to strangers about ending the war in Iraq and feeding the hungry.

    by Mary Sojourner, Mar 05, 2007

  • Crossing hearts on Colorado's plains

    Laura Pritchett’s first novel, Sky Bridge, perfectly captures the speech and rhythms of everyday life in the hardscrabble ranchland of the eastern Colorado plains

    by Malcolm McCollum, Nov 14, 2005

  • Evolution of a timber family

    A Northwestern family finds itself in the midst of heated controversy over ecology and economics when it has to decide how to manage its timber farm

    by Lissa James, Feb 21, 2005

  • My great-grandfather the crow killer

    The author’s family likes to think that his great-grandfather has come back as a crow after a lifetime spent shooting the rambunctious birds

    by Andrew Becker, Mar 01, 2004
 

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