Archive for May, 2005

Eating Mammals

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

by John Barlow
ISBN: 0060591757
The book’s title comes from the first of the three novellas in it. Curiously, fewer mammals are eaten in “Eating Mammals” than in the other two stories.
Furniture gets eaten; a brass plaque gets eaten; a bankrupting gross of oysters gets eaten. “Eating Mammals” is about The Great Michael ‘Cast Iron’ Mulligan, and [...]

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The Toughest Indian in the World

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

by Sherman Alexie
ISBN: 0802138004
Finding new-to-me authors I enjoy is always a kick; finding new-to-me authors who are prolific and still publishing is even better. Which is to say that even though this the first of Alexie’s books I’ve read, it won’t be the last.
This collection of short stories is populated by characters who sound like [...]

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The Truth About Stories

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

A Native Narrative
by Thomas King
ISBN: 0887846963
This is another one of those books that I’m not sure how to talk about because I want to find the right way to tell you to go read it, right now, because it is worth your time.
This is a nonfiction book — the content was originally delivered for the [...]

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