http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.18/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. No publisher Kurt Caswell From the Hilltop Toni Jensen modern American Indian life fiction Metis culture short stories 2010-10-21T20:18:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/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. No publisher Cherie Newman Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It Philip Condon Nine Ten Again Maile Meloy fiction Where The Money Went Kevin Canty short stories 2010-02-05T08:59:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.14/truth-lies-and-poetry Reading the short stories and poems in Sherman Alexie's War Dances is like watching an intricate dance. No publisher Lisa Song American Indian writers poets Chief Joseph fiction Native Americans Sherman Alexie War Dances poems short stories 2010-08-11T18:21:15Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16922 The powerful short stories in Thomas McGuane’s Gallatin Canyon prove him to be the New West’s answer to Flannery O’Connor. No publisher Annie Dawid anthologies friendship suicide recovery Cuba difficult lives West loneliness fiction Communities in transition Ernest Hemingway alcoholics Thomas McGuane New book reviews Flannery O’Connor Key West short stories redemption 2011-09-01T19:41:51Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.16/the-turn-of-the-wheel-the-many-lives-of-writer-h.-lee-barnes Nevada writer H. Lee Barnes brings his experiences as a soldier, cop and casino dealer to his gritty short stories and nonfiction. No publisher Caleb Cage H. Lee Barnes police memoirs Las Vegas Western writers casinos Green Berets nonfiction Vietnam short stories 2011-09-16T19:39:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16378 In the desert Southwest of 2030 Big Daddy Drought runs the show, California claims all the water, and a water tick named Lolo ekes out a rugged living removing tamarisk. No publisher Paolo Bacigalupi The 1922 Colorado River Compact irrigation sci-fi rights imagined futures Science Tamarisk Hunter tamarisk California water law water Science fiction Paolo Bacigalupi Weather future scenarios Climate Change Dams and Water Supply Projects drought fiction short stories SF 2011-11-12T21:30:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.8/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. No publisher Kathleen Yale family Melanie Rae Thon fiction small town life poverty In This Light short stories 2011-05-12T21:41:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.5/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. No publisher Tara Rae Miner rural life small towns fiction Volt Alan Heathcock short stories 2011-03-16T21:23:07Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.9/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. No publisher Melissa Hart book reviews Rancho Weirdo short stories Laura Chester fiction 2010-02-05T09:19:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.10/that-quiet-haunted-place-a-review-of-american-masculine The short stories in Shann Ray's book take us deep into the lives of Western men. No publisher Kurt Caswell rural life American Masculine fiction Shann Ray short stories Western men 2011-06-09T21:31:31Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/stroke-of-insight-a-review-of-before-the-end-after-the-beginning Dagoberto Gilb's remarkable new fiction collection captures the lives of struggling Southwestern people. No publisher Jenny Shank Before the End Dagoberto Gilb short stories fiction After the Beginning 2012-03-14T19:38:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.16/stories-like-a-bale-unrolling-a-review-of-conjugations-of-the-verb Glen Chamberlain's short stories bring to life the people of a fictional Montana town. No publisher Charles Finn families rural life small towns fiction Montana Conjugations of the Verb To Be Glen Chamberlain short stories 2011-09-16T19:38:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.10/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. No publisher Karen Rigby Aryn Kyle contemporary life, fiction short stories Boys and Girls Like You and Me 2010-06-02T19:33:06Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.16/seeds-of-atonement-an-interview-with-writer-shann-ray Shann Ray's short stories focus on the theme of redemption in the lives of ordinary Western families. No publisher Jenny Shank psychologists forgiveness Shann Ray fiction Western writers teachers American Masculine short stories 2011-09-28T15:19:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/362/17464 In the short stories in Last Call, Colorado writer Blair Oliver looks at the desperate suburban lives of modern-day Western men. No publisher Peter Soliunas modern West Last Call New West fiction short stories Blair Oliver 2011-02-14T23:18:33Z News Article