Category: Fiction
15 review(s) found that match this category.
Eighty-Sixed: A Compendium of the Hapless
Winter 2005
If his two latest short story collections are indicative, Brian Ames ’85 is a prolific writer of unsettling talent. Releasing both Head Full of Traffic and Eighty-Sixed: A Compendium of the Hapless in 2004, Ames packs 22-plus pieces into each colle...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Short stories
Head Full of Traffic
Winter 2005
If his two latest short story collections are indicative, Brian Ames '85 is a prolific writer of unsettling talent. Releasing both Head Full of Traffic and Eighty-Sixed: A Compendium of the Hapless in 2004, Ames packs 22-plus pieces into each collect...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Short stories
Smoke Follows Beauty
Summer 2003
There's a scene in "The Kanasket Chicken Killings" that illuminates a great deal of what Brian Ames ('85 Political Science) is up to in his collection of short stories, Smoke Follows Beauty. As he's replacing the camshaft of a road grader, mechanic H...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Short stories
Breederman
Spring 2002
Author Murray Anderson ('50 Dairy Husbandry) weaves his experiences as a herdsman, milk tester, milking machine salesman, artificial inseminator, and fieldsman into a novel that describes the struggle for survival of small farmers in northwest Washin...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: American West
Horses They Rode
Summer 2007
Midway through Sid Gustafson's new novel, Horses They Rode, I found myself put in mind of all the second chances I have had. His take on the reknitting of family, friendship, and one man's tumultuous life is such a story—a tale of second chance...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Horses
Prisoners of Flight
Summer 2004
In Prisoners of Flight, Sid Gustafson's veterinarian protagonist refers often to angels: "We haven't heard from our angels in a long time. But they're out there . . . waiting somewhere in the sky." Two ex-military pilots, Gustaf...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Survival
Salt Lick
Spring 2008
Anyone familiar with Brian Ames's three books of short stories—Smoke Follows Beauty, Head Full of Traffic, and Eighty-Sixed—will know that he's a writer of imagination and depth. His stories explore the boundaries between everyday existen...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Literature
Index of Suspicion
Summer 2003
Don't read Index of Suspicion by Robert E. Armstrong until all your pets have had fresh rabies vaccinations. Using his knowledge as a veterinarian—he graduated from WSU's College of Veterinary Medicine in 1962—Armstrong has constructed a complex ...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Mystery novels
I Only Smoke on Thursdays
Winter 2003
What would Audrey Hepburn do? Look no further than the timeless class, spirit, and wit of the late actress for tips on dating and living as a modern woman. That's part of the advice of Seattle author Georgie Nickell ('94 Comm.) in her debut novel, I ...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Dating
Windfalls
Winter 2005
To be a mother or an artist? Or both? Anyone interested in women's quest stories that explore these central questions will find Jean Hegland's second novel, Windfalls, to be essential reading. Readers who know the Palouse will enjoy her vivid ...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Eastern Washington
