Results for keyword: short stories
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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 -
Daniel Orozco is out of the office
In Moscow, Idaho, Daniel Orozco writes darkly funny short stories that flirt with the macabre.
by Brian Kevin, 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 -
Stories from the shadow sides
The short stories in Aryn Kyle's Boys and Girls Like You and Me are threaded by themes of solitude and unrest.
by Karen Rigby, Jun 06, 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 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 -
Why some men are the way they are
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 13, 2009 -
Desperate people
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 16, 2009 -
The bizarre intersection of humanity and nature
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 -
New West, Next West
In the short stories in Last Call, Colorado writer Blair Oliver looks at the desperate suburban lives of modern-day Western men.
by Peter Soliunas, Jan 21, 2008






