Results for keyword: fiction
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The painful beauty of love
Melanie Rae Thon's short stories, gathered in her collection In This Light, paint a desolate and tender picture of the West.
by Kathleen Yale, May 15, 2011 -
Good-enough mothers: A review of Wrecker
In her second novel, Summer Wood tells the story of a troubled child and the rural, counterculture community that takes him in.
by Tania Casselle, May 01, 2011 -
A deadly fastball in Denver: A review of The Ringer
In her debut novel, The Ringer, Jenny Shank brings to life two troubled families haunted by violence in Denver.
by Matthew Irwin, Apr 17, 2011 -
The dark corners of the heart: A review of Volt
The short stories in Alan Heathcock's collection, Volt, bring the troubled inhabitants of a small town vividly to life.
by Tara Rae Miner, Mar 20, 2011 -
Thirteen ways of looking at a mushroom cloud
Ann Ronald's Friendly Fallout 1953 is an experiment in literary fission that describes 11 actual nuclear detonations through the eyes of mostly fictional characters.
by Molly Beer, Mar 06, 2011 -
Reasons to persevere
In his novel, Blind Your Ponies, Stanley Gordon West looks into the heart of a fictional small town in Montana.
by Karen Rigby, Feb 06, 2011 -
Excavating John
Kate Niles' wry and compassionate novel The Book of John tracks the travails of an archaeologist named John Gregory Wayne Thompson.
by Annie Dawid, Dec 19, 2010 -
Tribute to a prickly icon
Both fans and critics contemplate the life and legacy of Edward Abbey in a special issue of the Western literary and arts journal Matter.
by Michael Engelhard, Nov 21, 2010 -
Writing in tradition
In her first short story collection, From the Hilltop, Toni Jensen relies on her Metis heritage to explore American Indian life off the reservation.
by Kurt Caswell, Oct 24, 2010 -
'The music of men's lives'
In his new novel, Work Song, Ivan Doig describes the struggle between mine owners and union activists in post-WWI Butte, Mont.
by Kathleen Yale, Oct 10, 2010
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