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Sherman Alexie
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Summertime. Beaches, picnics, and maybe a screen porch
waiting
for the next discerning reader. Folks ask me all the time to recommend
good books. Good ones, they seem to want. Read anything good, they ask.
Yep, I say. Check out the debut collection of short stories by Bret
Anthony Johnston, And if the name Bret
Anthony Johnston
sounds familiar, maybe you've read his work in The Paris Review, Open
City, Shenandoah, or New Stories from the South. 
Mark Winegardner's long-awaited first collection of stories, That's True of Everybody, is out in paperback. Might it tide you over until The Godfather Returns is published on November 16, 2004? "What makes a person into a
person who matters is to have
ideals, then to realize everything's tainted, then to grow up and
reimpose your ideals upon the unjust and indifferent world." Mark Winegardner's second novel shows why Cleveland rocks. The novel plays with the leeway between truth and fact, especially when it comes to local lore and hometown heroes. |
Robert Olen Butler wrote a short story online. He wrote for two hours a night for two weeks, allowing millions of writers the opportunity to learn from every creative decision as it happened. Look for his new collection of stories inspired by American postcards, Had a Good Time. Check out a recent short story from Robert Olen Butler in Zoetrope: The Ironworkers' Hayride
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The
Atlantic Monthly |
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Best New American Voices |
William Heath's novel, The Children Bob Moses Led brings alive the optimism of Freedom Summer. While working toward equality and mutual understanding, the Summer Project workers show the first signs of the counter-culture. Download a free reading guide. |
William
Maxwell wrote one of my favorite novels, So
Long, See You Tomorrow. I started a new Maxwell page with biographical information and photos. |
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See what Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King are up to. |
The Bounty. Since December 1996 |
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