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Three new short story collections -- Nine Ten Again by Philip Condon, Where The Money Went by Kevin Canty, and Maile Meloy’s Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It -- feature working-class men coping with damaged lives.
by Cherie Newman,
Sep 14, 2009
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In Michelle Huneven's novel Blame, a woman tries to deal with her guilt after a drunken-driving accident.
by Hillary Rosner,
Sep 14, 2009
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In the short stories collected in The Mechanics of Falling, Catherine Brady describes fragile people whose precarious lives are unraveling.
by Andrea Clark Mason,
Aug 17, 2009
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The short stories in Laura Chester’s Rancho Weirdo revolve around the unexpected interactions of middle-class people with nature.
by Melissa Hart,
May 26, 2009
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In Charlotte Bacon’s novel, Split Estate, a damaged
New York family seeks refuge and renewal on a Wyoming
ranch.
by T.K. Dalton,
Mar 31, 2008
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In The Empanada Brotherhood, his 11th novel, New Mexico
author John Nichols pares his often-overloaded prose to the bone to
tell a unique coming-of-age story set in Greenwich Village in
1960.
by Malcolm McCollum,
Dec 24, 2007
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Sarah Bird’s well-written novel The Flamenco Academy
weaves the history of this dramatic dance form into a obsessed
young woman’s search for identity.
by Margaret Foley,
Nov 12, 2007
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Deirdre McNamer’s new novel, Red Rover, beautifully
captures the unromantic realism of Montana’s small
towns.
by Bruce Barcott,
Oct 29, 2007
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A list of the most intriguing current books by Western
authors or on Western subjects.
by Jodi Peterson,
Oct 29, 2007
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In Flight, Indian novelist Sherman Alexie paints a
brilliant, disturbing, compassionate portrait of a gun-toting,
time-traveling teenager.
by T.K. Dalton,
Oct 01, 2007
