A collection of letters from and to the writer whose book, The Desert , fostered an appreciation of the American Southwest in the early years of the 20th century. Although he wrote that he rode alone
Gary Short’s new collection is the work of a mature poet at the peak of his powers, confident of his ability to speak of human betrayal and the fragility of life without bitterness or cheap sent
Winner of the 1996 Western States Book Award for poetry,?Flying Over Sonny Liston?explores with courage, compassion, and bone-deep wisdom the complicated and sometimes heartbreaking task of being huma
Cocky young glaciers, contemplative pine trees, resourceful ancient Paiutes, and rabbits too clever for their own good. Through the kindly but mysterious Basket Woman, they all become the companions a
The rugged mountains and deserts of eastern California and northern Nevada in the early years of the century are the setting of this moving coming-of-age novella. Ira Hamilton, the teen-age son of rug
Poetry, to Wilber Stevens, is a way of seeing things, of focusing our attention on the awesome dimensions of being alive. In this masterful collection of recent and older poems, Stevens explores the c
This breathtaking collection of poems by award-winning Nevada poet Gailmarie Pahmeier explores the many facets of a woman's experience. Told largely through the voice of a fictional character, "Emma,"
Leroy Upton, the "straight white male" who is the novel's central character, has come a long way from the sun-baked working-class neighborhood in Bakersfield where he grew up. The son of an oil-field
Brian Young is the creator of powerful, sometimes harsh poems that combine outrage with lyricism, brooding melancholy with rich, sensual, even playful language. Young’s work is difficult, in the sense
Jackson J. Benson, the noted literary biographer and critic, offers a collection of essays on novelist Wallace Stegner. Stegner’s fiction was frequently autobiographical, and Benson’s essays evaluate
Kirk Robertson is one of Nevada's best-known poets, and rightly so, because his lean verses powerfully express the realities of life in the modern West - its irony, disconnection, sadness, and relentl
This general-interest anthology offers selections from sixty-seven authors, making it one of the most diverse collections available of California’s far-ranging literature, including fiction, nonfictio
Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck’s first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting at Lake Tahoe in 1928
Ruth Farley is a stubbornly independent, free-spirited woman who homesteaded a piece of land at Glory Springs, deep in a beautiful, remote canyon in the Southern California Mojave Desert. At the end o
"Stories turn corners. They bump into you: You take them!" So New York writer Benjamin Kohlman has been told by one of many former bosses. Alone again and desperate, Kohlman has finally found his: Jan
The Native American poet details the sights and sounds of Haight-Asbury during the "summer of love" as youth lived through marijuana hazes and desperation in their search for freedom and possibilities
