Tag: Short stories
5 review(s) found with this tag.
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
Summer 2013
Most writers’ volumes of “new and selected” stories add only two or
three new pieces to twenty or thirty old ones. More than half of Sherman
Alexie’s Blasphemy is new, however, including a few lengthy stories. The success of Alexie’s te...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Short stories, Native Americans, Humor
White Jade and Other Stories
Spring 2009
The seven stories in this collection are delightful. Sometimes funny and even perverse, they show an extravagant imagination, and a very sharp political perspective deepened by their concern for how wars and historical dislocations jam people into...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Short stories, Asian Americans
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
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
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