The Story Behind the Hunter’s Moon Collection of Stories
My latest book, a collection of short stories titled Hunter’s Moon, was inspired by two much older works of short fiction, one by a Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches, and the other by an American, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. In a sense, Hunter’s Moon, much like Winesburg, Ohio, can be considered a novel in stories. It mostly takes place in a fictional American town, Vieux Desert, on Michigan’s wild and remote Upper Peninsula. It features recurrent characters at different points in their lives over the course of several years, roughly from 2004 to 2018.
IN MEMORIAM
Below are 17 reasons why it’s called Memorial Day and not Picnic and Barbecue Day. LCPL CARROLL FANKHAUSER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 8/24/65 PFC ROBERT FERNANDEZ, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 6/20/65 CPL BRIAN GAUTHIER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/11/65 LCPL...MARINES, BELLEAU WOOD, VETERANS DAY
Somewhat belatedly, I wish a Happy 243d Marine Corps Birthday to all my fellow Marines, and a Happy Veterans Day to all veterans, but especially to the brothers from Vietnam. World War I ended 100 years ago yesterday. In June, 1918, a Marine brigade consisting of...JOHN MCCAIN
More than a decade ago, I had the privilege of spending a few hours, over the span of two days, speaking one on one with Senator John McCain. A Hollywood producer had optioned the rights to the first volume of Sen. McCain’s autobiography, “Faith of My...ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW
Here is a link to a columnist’s point of view about our recent wars, one that some of you may disagree with. Nevertheless, it’s worth reading and thinking about. https://www.alternet.org/cost-war-end-empireSOME RISE BY SIN
The paperback edition of my latest novel, Some Rise By Sin, was officially released on May 8. Some Rise By Sin was named as a Southwest Book of the Year for 2017. From the award citation: “In a small town in northern Sonora, a motorcycle-riding Franciscan priest...BRING COMMON SENSE TO THE SENSELESS
Leslie and I took part in the March for Our Lives protest in Tucson today, March 24, 2018 — one of 800 nationwide demonstrations staged in reaction to the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, last month. The purpose, as everyone...TUCSON BOOK FESTIVAL
I will be speaking at the Tucson Book Festival, the third largest in the country, this weekend: Saturday, March 10, at 1pm with novelists Kevin Canty and Ron Hansen on writing historical fiction, and on Sunday, March 11, with Francisco Cantú about lives on the...“Some Rise by Sin” named a Top Pick by Southwest Books of the Year
As they have for more than 40 years, the Southwest Books of the Year panel of reviewers—subject specialists and voracious consumers of Southwest literature—offer up their favorite titles of the year, complete with thumbnail reviews to whet your appetite. I’m...
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