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Books

Reading Portland: The City in Prose. University of Washington Press (January 2007). 640 pp. An anthology of 82 fiction
          and nonfiction writings from the mid-1800s to today. “The Pull of the Rivers: A  Preface” by Peter Donahue. Co-
          edited with John Trombold. Includes "Before Portland" Supplement and Index on CD.

Madison House. Hawthorne Books (October 2005).  512 pp.  A novel set in turn-of-century Seattle. Winner of the 2005
         Langum Prize for Historical Fiction. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Translated into Braille by the
         Washington Talking Book and Braille Library.

Reading Seattle: The City in Prose. University of Washington Press (May 2004).  An anthology of 42 fiction
          and nonfiction writers. Introduction by Peter Donahue.  Co-edited with John Trombold. 

The Cornelius Arms. Missing Spoke Press (July 2000). 262 pp.  A collection of 15 interrelated short stories.
 

Short Stories, Short-Short Stories, Novella, & Novel Excerpt

"God's Judgment." The Writer's Workshop Review (Summer 2008): http://thewritersworkshopreview.net/issue.cgi

“Future Uncertain, Try Again.” Aura: Literary Arts Review (Fall 2006) 32.2: 14-29

Madison House (excerpt from Chapter Four). Washington English Journal 25 (November 2003): 59-62.

“On Airport Road.” Southwestern American Literature (Fall 2003): 73-83.

"Weathering." The Rio Grande Review 19.1 (Spring 2000): 92-107.

"Smitty and Dolores." Short Story.  (Spring 2000): 19-31.

"The Cornelius Arms" (novella). American Jones 6 (Summer 1999):  41-81.

"Nowa," "Joy," "Lake Photo," and "The Ponies of Anadarko" (short-short stories). Oasis 7.3 (Jan-March 

      1999): 55-58.

"Tallboys." Chiron Review 55 (1998): 20-21.

"Nautilus." Flint Hills Review 3 (1998): 56-66.

"Genealogy." Connecticut Review 19.2 (1997): 93-109.

"Marta." The South Carolina Review 30.1 (1997): 21-34.

"The Cyst." Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal 14.2 (1997): 55-61.

"Throwaway Baby." Washington Square 2 (1997): 63-79.

"The President Walks Home." Rough Draft 16.1 (1996): 1-4.

"Somewhere South." Interim 14.2 (1995): 34-46.

"Partners." Midland Review 11 (1995): 68-85.

"A Solace of Ripe Plums." Bottomfish Magazine 15 (1994): 41-54.

"The Pearl of Puget Sound." Dionysos: The Literature and Addiction Triquarterly 5.2 (1993): 31-44.

"Hybrid."  Red Cedar Review 29.2 (1993): 61-79.

"Rising Moon in the Stairwell." Oxalis 21 (1993): 22-27.

"Magnus Opus." Fine Print (1993): 12-13.

"Promising the Moon." Karamu 13.2 (1993): 188-96.

"Bald Heads and Broken Glass." Words of Wisdom 12.6 (1992): 19-29.

"Leathers."  Mobius: The Journal of Social Change 4.1 (1992): 10-15.

"Carl." Midland Review 8 (1992): 14-20.

"Crayfish Man." Miscellaneous Ink. 1 (1990): 10-19.

Critical Articles and Personal Essays

"The Genre Which Is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference, and the Short Story Cycle." The Postmodern
          Short Story: Forms and Issues
, edited by Mary Rohrberger, et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.  161-72.

"Soft Coal: The Sadness and Poetic Vision of Robert Hazel." The Southern Quarterly, special issue: "An American

          Romantic: Perspectives on Robert Hazel." 40.3 (Spring 2002). Co-authored with Philip Heldrich.

"Humbly Submitted: A Tale of First Book Publication." Writing on the Edge 12.4 (Fall 2001): 65-75.

"Self-Reflexive Storytelling and Narrative Borders in Dagoberto Gilb's The Last Known Residence of Micky Acuńa." 
          Southwestern American Literature
24.2 (Spring 1999): 33-39.

"Alleys: Reading Urban Abjection and Anonymity." The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought  40.1
          (1998): 75-92.

"God, Church, and Family: Moral Give-and-Take in Andre Dubus' 'A Father's Story.'" Journal of the Short Story in
          English
28 (1997): 37-45.

"The Genteel Narrators of Peter Taylor's The Oracle of Stoneleigh Court: A Rhetorical Reading." The Southern
          Quarterly
36.1 (1997): 37-42.

New Warriors, New Legends: Basketball in Three Native American Works of Fiction."  American Indian Culture and
          Research Journal
21.3 (1997): 43-60.

"Collecting as Ethos and Technique in The Portrait of a Lady."  Studies in American Fiction 25.1 (1997): 41-56.

"Pouring Drinks and Getting Drunk: The Social and Personal Implications of Drinking in John Updike's Too Far to Go." 

          Studies in Short Fiction 33.2 (1996): 361-67. 

"Alcoholism as Ideology in Raymond Carver's 'Careful' and 'Where I'm Calling From.'" Extrapolation 32.1 (1991):
           54-63.

 
Book Reviews & Retrospective Reviews

"The Palouse Novels of Elizabeth Marion," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 22.3 (Fall 2008): 44-45.

"The Island Memoirs of Hazel Heckman," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 22.2 (Summer 2008): 44-45.

The Coastal Novels of Nard Jones," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 22.1 (Spring 2008): 42-43.

"The Inland Novels of Nard Jones," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 21.4 (Winter 2007-08): 44-45.

"Four Northwest Anthologies,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 21.3 (Fall 2007): 44-45.

“The Novels of William Attaway,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 21.2 (Summer 2007): 44-45.

“Edna Ferber’s Great Son,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 21.1 (Spring 2007): 44-45.

Vanishing Seattle by Clark Humphrey.  The Seattle Times (December 17, 2006.)

“The Works of Margaret Thompson,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 20.4 (Winter 2006-07) 44-45.

 “The Memoirs of Charlotte Paul,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 20.3 (Fall 2006): 44-45. 

“The Novels of Alan Hart,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 20.2. (Summer 2006): 44-45.   

“The Seattle Writers Club, 1906-1936,” Columbia Magazine of Northwest History 20.1 (Spring 2006): 42-43.

“The Novels of Melvin Levy,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 19.4 (Winter 2005-06): 44-45.

“The Novels of Mary Brinker Post,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 19.3 (Fall 2005): 42-43. 

On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature, by Nicholas O’Connell. Northwest Review

          42.2 (2004): 140-42.

Fierce, by Barbara Robinette Moss. The Birmingham Weekly (October 27, 2004).
Four Spirits
, by Sena Jeter Naslund. The Birmingham Weekly (September 11, 2003).

A Broken Thing, by Marlin Barton. The Birmingham Weekly (September 4,  2003).

Lost in the Lights: Sports, Dreams, and Life, by Paul Hemphill.  The Birmingham Weekly (August 7, 2003).

One More River to Cross: The Selected Poetry of John Beecher.  Steven Ford Brown, Editor.The Birmingham Weekly
          (June 7, 2003 ).

The Incantations of Frida K, by Kate Braverman. The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall 2002).

Woodcuts of Women, by Dagoberto Gilb. The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Spring 2002).

A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell. Edited by Jonathan
          Safran Foer.The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 2001).

Contagion by Brian Evenson. The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Spring 2001).

Sewing Shut My Eyes by Lance Olsen. The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 2000).

Swimmer’s Prayer by Cynthia Gallagher, and nobody lives here who saw this sky, by Greg Kosmicki. Cimarron Review
          (Summer 2000).

Delancy’s Way by James McCourt. The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Spring 2000).

Monday's Meal: Stories by Leslie H. Edgerton. Studies in Short Fiction (1998).

Acid: Stories by Edward Falco. Cimarron Review 119 (1997): 127-30.

The Point: Stories by Charles D'Ambrosio. Studies in Short Fiction 32.2 (1996): 430-32.

The Last Good Man by Daniel Lyons. Short Story 4.1 (1996):104-6.

The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb. Studies in Short Fiction 32.3 (1995): 248-50.

The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory by Jay Clayton. SubStance: A Review of Theory
          and Literary Criticism
76/77 (1995): 186-89.

Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Anthology.  Elisabeth Pruitt, Editor. Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary
           Humanities Journal
12.1 (1995): 147-48.

Friends: More Will and Magna Stories by Stephen Dixon. The South Carolina Review 28.1 (1995): 172-73.

"A Swarm of Prose: Barry Hannah's Bats Out of Hell." Chattahoochee Review 14.3 (1994): 87-92.

The Fickleman Suite by James McKinley. Studies in Short Fiction 30 (1993): 609-10.

Properties of Blood by William Mills.  Chattahoochee Review 13.4 (1993): 103-05.

Small Spaces Between Emergencies by Alison Moore. Cimarron Review 103 (1993): 133-35.

Plato at Scratch Daniels and Other Stories, by Edward Falco. Studies in Short Fiction 29 (1992).