http://michael.cartwheelmedia.com/wpm/2006/12/05/2337/ mostly shadows and lines Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:06:15 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://michael.cartwheelmedia.com/wpm/2006/12/05/2337/comment-page-1/#comment-21148 Michael Hartford » Apparition and Late Fictions Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:01:53 +0000 http://michael.cartwheelmedia.com/wpm/2006/12/05/2337/#comment-21148 [...] tinged with resignation. These are very grown-up stories, not unlike Thomas Williams’ Leah New Hampshire or William Kittredge’s collections, and put the reader in a reflective mood. Tagged: [...] [...] tinged with resignation. These are very grown-up stories, not unlike Thomas Williams’ Leah New Hampshire or William Kittredge’s collections, and put the reader in a reflective mood. Tagged: [...]

]]> http://michael.cartwheelmedia.com/wpm/2006/12/05/2337/comment-page-1/#comment-20741 From a Farther Room » What I’m Going to Do, I Think Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:02:22 +0000 http://michael.cartwheelmedia.com/wpm/2006/12/05/2337/#comment-20741 [...] petty failings without comment, and we recognize them in ourselves. Unlike Thomas Williams’ Leah, New Hampshire, though, which is similarly focussed on flawed and failing characters, there’s no particular [...] [...] petty failings without comment, and we recognize them in ourselves. Unlike Thomas Williams’ Leah, New Hampshire, though, which is similarly focussed on flawed and failing characters, there’s no particular [...]

]]> http://michael.cartwheelmedia.com/wpm/2006/12/05/2337/comment-page-1/#comment-20661 From a Farther Room » Dancing After Hours Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:02:50 +0000 http://michael.cartwheelmedia.com/wpm/2006/12/05/2337/#comment-20661 [...] is, like Thomas Williams and Raymond Carver, an incredibly humane writer. He presents his characters as they [...] [...] is, like Thomas Williams and Raymond Carver, an incredibly humane writer. He presents his characters as they [...]

]]> http://michael.cartwheelmedia.com/wpm/2006/12/05/2337/comment-page-1/#comment-10518 Michael Hartford - From a Farther Room - The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:51:23 +0000 http://michael.cartwheelmedia.com/wpm/2006/12/05/2337/#comment-10518 [...] This collection of Kittredge’s short stories from Graywolf Press makes a good Western companion to Graywolf’s Thomas Williams collection. Like the Williams stories, these are stories about men summing up their lives, coming to peace with their pasts. But where Williams’ men find themselves resolving their lives in the context of relationships with people, Kittredge’s men resolve their lives in solitude, or in relation to an unforgiving Western landscape. [...] [...] This collection of Kittredge’s short stories from Graywolf Press makes a good Western companion to Graywolf’s Thomas Williams collection. Like the Williams stories, these are stories about men summing up their lives, coming to peace with their pasts. But where Williams’ men find themselves resolving their lives in the context of relationships with people, Kittredge’s men resolve their lives in solitude, or in relation to an unforgiving Western landscape. [...]

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