Ron Carlson

Le Signal (2000)

Carlson's writing, particularly of late with five skies and the signal, is linking a chain to in the style of hemingway and carver. It's contemporary and relevant, but a wink to that time of spare, evocative style not dependent on metaphor stacked on metaphor, but rather elegant, mater of fact de...

At the Jim Bridger: Stories (2003)

A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories (2003)

Plan B for the Middle Class: Stories (1993)

The Hotel Eden (1998)

NOTE: This review is for a single story in this collection."I haven't lied to you this far, and I'm not going to start now."I got this to read "Keith"; I saw the movie based on this short story recently. To say I loved the movie is a gross understatement, so I was naturally curious about the stor...

Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1984)

The News of the World (1988)

Truants (1981)