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Writing in tradition 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 publisherKurt CaswellFrom the HilltopToni Jensenmodern American Indian lifefictionMetis cultureshort stories2010-10-21T20:18:16ZNews ArticleWhy some men are the way they are 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 publisherCherie NewmanBoth Ways Is The Only Way I Want ItPhilip CondonNine Ten AgainMaile MeloyfictionWhere The Money WentKevin Cantyshort stories2010-02-05T08:59:01ZNews ArticleWhat lies beneath? http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.9/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.No publisherBrian KevinwerewolvesJim HarrisonThe Farmers Daughternovellasfiction2010-05-18T19:23:00ZNews ArticleWait until darkness http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.16/wait-until-darkness In his debut novel, The Wilding, Benjamin Percy captures our ambiguous attitudes toward the natural world. No publisherJodi PetersonBenjamin PercyThe Wildinghunting, novelsfamily lifefictionreviews2010-09-15T15:02:28ZNews ArticleTwenty views of the West http://www.hcn.org/issues/353/17214 In Best Stories of the American West, Volume I, series
editor Marc Jaffe gathers 20 very different stories by 20 very
different writers.No publisherShawn DeanshortWilliam KittredgeMarc JaffefictionanthologiesSherman AlexiestoriesBest Stories of the American West Volume I2010-08-27T22:34:31ZNews ArticleTruth, lies and poetry 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 publisherLisa SongAmerican Indian writerspoetsChief JosephfictionNative AmericansSherman AlexieWar Dancespoemsshort stories2010-08-11T18:21:15ZNews ArticleTribute to a prickly icon http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.20/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.No publisherMichael EngelhardDylan QuintAna Maria SpagnaCharles BowdenJim StilesDoug PeacockinterviewsMatter Journal 13literary journalsfictionanthologiesJack LoefflerKatie LeeEdward Abbey2010-11-16T23:59:22ZNews ArticleTough justice, hard fate http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.14/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.No publisherTania Cassellerelationshipsparents and childrennovelsfictionThen Came the EveningVietnam veteransBrian HartIdaho landscape2010-08-11T18:22:39ZNews ArticleTo die fighting: a review of Jesse's Ghost: A Novel http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/to-die-fighting-a-review-of-jesses-ghost-a-novel In Frank Bergon's new novel, a young man in California's Central Valley is haunted by the memory of his best friend, whom he murdered.No publisherTara Rae MinerJesse's GhostFrank Bergonmurdernovelsrural lifeCalifornia Central Valleyfictionfriendshipranch life2011-10-26T20:27:41ZNews ArticleThomas McGuane’s lonely freaks 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 publisherAnnie DawidanthologiesfriendshipsuiciderecoveryCubadifficult livesWestlonelinessfictionCommunities in transitionErnest HemingwayalcoholicsThomas McGuaneNewbook reviewsFlannery O’ConnorKey Westshort storiesredemption2011-09-01T19:41:51ZNews ArticleThirteen ways of looking at a mushroom cloud http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.4/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.
No publisherMolly BeerFriendly Fallout 1953Cold Warnovelsfictionnuclear bomb testingAnn RonaldNevada Proving Groundatomic testing2011-03-02T00:26:43ZNews ArticleThe Tamarisk Hunter 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 publisherPaolo BacigalupiThe1922 Colorado River Compactirrigationsci-firightsimagined futuresScienceTamarisk HuntertamariskCalifornia water lawwaterScience fictionPaolo BacigalupiWeatherfuture scenariosClimate ChangeDams and Water Supply Projectsdroughtfictionshort storiesSF2011-11-12T21:30:05ZNews ArticleThe power of music, the power of obsession http://www.hcn.org/issues/358/17356 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.No publisherMargaret FoleyThe Flamenco AcademynovelsdancefictioncultureSarah BirdLatino2010-08-09T23:02:08ZNews ArticleThe painful beauty of love 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 publisherKathleen YalefamilyMelanie Rae Thonfictionsmall town lifepovertyIn This Lightshort stories2011-05-12T21:41:54ZNews ArticleThe dark corners of the heart: A review of Volt 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 publisherTara Rae Minerrural lifesmall townsfictionVoltAlan Heathcockshort stories2011-03-16T21:23:07ZNews Article