New stories from the Southwest / edited by D. Seth Horton ; foreword by Ray Gonzalez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horton, D. Seth, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--Southwestern States.

Short stories, American.

American fiction.

Southwestern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Southwestern States.

American fiction--21st century.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xvi, 285 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2008]

Summary:

"New Stories from the Southwest" presents nineteen short stories that appeared in North American periodicals between January and December 2006. Selected by editor D. Seth Horton, the former fiction editor for the "Sonora Review," from a wide cross-section of journals and magazines, and with a foreword by noted writer Ray Gonzalez, "New Stories from the Southwest" presents a generous sampling of the best of contemporary fiction situated in this often overlooked area of the country. Swallow Press is particularly pleased to publish this wide-ranging collection of stories from both new and established writers.

Contents:

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 / Alan Cheuse

The secret heart of Christ / Matt Clark

Cowboys and Indians / Lorien Crow

Together we are lost / Kathleen de Azevedo

Hermano / Alan Elyshevitz

Looking for eight / Marcela Fuentes

Dead man's nail / Dennis Fulgoni

Food stamp / Anna Green

Guadalupe and the taxman / Donald Lucio Hurd

At the Powwow Hotel / Toni Jensen

The fifth daughter / Charles Kemnitz

What I never said / Elmo Lum

A tragedy with pigs / Tom McWhorter

Old Border Road / S.G. Miller

Gold firebird / Peter Rock

Imagining Bisbee / Alicita Rodríguez

Reasons for concern regarding my girlfriend of five days, Monica Garza / John Tait

Passage / Patrick Tobin

Bat / Valery Varble.

ISBN:

9780804011068

0804011060

9780804011075

0804011079

OCLC:

156817242

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