Results for keyword: fiction
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How we got to this place
In Driving on the Rim, Thomas McGuane creates a dark picaresque novel.
by Cherie Newman, Sep 12, 2010 -
Wait until darkness
In his debut novel, The Wilding, Benjamin Percy captures our ambiguous attitudes toward the natural world.
by Jodi Peterson, Sep 12, 2010 -
Truth, lies and poetry
Reading the short stories and poems in Sherman Alexie's War Dances is like watching an intricate dance.
by Lisa Song, Aug 15, 2010 -
Tough justice, hard fate
In Brian Hart's first novel, Then Came the Evening, people are trapped in a tragic drama partly of their own making.
by Tania Casselle, Aug 15, 2010 -
Discovery and recovery in a Mojave casino town
Mary Sojourner's new novel, Going Through Ghosts, takes the reader on a journey of love, loss, abandonment and death.
by Alexa Mergen, Aug 01, 2010 -
What lies beneath?
The likable characters in the three novellas in Jim Harrison's The Farmer's Daughter are all confronted by loneliness and brutality.
by Brian Kevin, May 23, 2010 -
Ghosts of Wyoming: A haunted past and present
The haunting short stories in Alyson Hagy's collection resonate with themes of loss, resignation and hope.
by Melissa Mylchreest, May 09, 2010 -
A Western state of mind
The short story anthology Best of the West 2009 is filled with memorable characters and muscular prose.
by Tania Casselle, Apr 25, 2010 -
Pulp friction
Philip Caputo's seventh novel, Crossers, amounts to little more than the literary equivalent of a popcorn flick.
by Brian Kevin, Mar 14, 2010 -
A search for meaning in the Pacific Northwest
Jon Raymond's short-story collection, Livability, is compassionate and quietly devastating.
by Lawrence Lanahan, Dec 20, 2009






