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A writer on top
of the short-story game

March 19, 2023 by Dave Knadler 2 Comments

I’ve talked about George Saunders here before. Love his work.  Having just finished his latest collection of short stories, “Liberation Day,” I don’t love it any less.  Like most story collections, many of these have appeared earlier in various places. My favorite of the bunch, “A Mom of Bold Action,” first ran in the […]

Filed Under: american life, Books, short stories

The cold, hard West

January 26, 2023 by Dave Knadler

annie proulx short stories in "Fine Just the Way It Is"

Who’s the most famous writer you’ve never read? I can think of a few offhand, but now I can cross one off the list: Annie Proulx. A good friend sent me a book of her short stories the other day: “Fine Just the Way it Is.”  I’m about halfway through it. I love that […]

Filed Under: Books, montana, Movies, short stories, writers, Writing

Big Book o’ Time

March 26, 2014 by Dave Knadler

time traveler's almanac

I can’t resist time-travel stories. So when I happened across The Time Traveler’s Almanac on Amazon, I hit the “buy now” button at very nearly the speed of light. If I’d been even quicker, maybe I could have read this post without the trouble of actually writing it. Or something like that. When you […]

Filed Under: Books, reading, short stories

This time with feeling

January 11, 2012 by Dave Knadler

I‘m writing fiction again. As with running, it’s been awhile. After publishing a number of stories in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine a few years ago, I let it slide. I wasn’t happy about it, but I had my reasons. First, the financials weren’t working. Dividing payment for each story by the number of hours […]

Filed Under: short stories, Writing

Now available at newstands not quite everywhere

June 20, 2010 by Dave Knadler

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Aug. 2010 cover

It’s nice to see my name in print again. It’s also bittersweet, since “Dead Black Cadillac” is a story I wrote a couple of years ago, and sold a couple months later, and only now appears in print in what may be the least-read magazine in America. But I’m not complaining. Well, maybe I […]

Filed Under: short stories

Maybe Sin City isn’t much of a muse

March 3, 2009 by Dave Knadler

OK, I’ve plunged back into crime fiction, but I seem to have started at the shallow end of the pool: Murder in Vegas, a 2005 anthology of short stories edited by Michael Connelly. I found it at the library a few days ago and I was in a hurry. I like short stories, even […]

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Reflections on some ancient tomes

February 8, 2009 by Dave Knadler

Whenever I visit my folks’ place in Montana, I can never head back home without a sack lunch and a hundred pounds of books. Mom’s always got a lot more food around than the two of them can eat — some of it a few weeks past the sell-by date — and a lot […]

Filed Under: Books, short stories, Writing

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