The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
By Joyce Carol Oates Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx --Annie Proulx, from “Tits-Up in a Ditch”
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Chapter One Family Man The Mellowhorn Home was a rambling one-story log building identifying itself as western - the furniture upholstered in fabrics with geometric "Indian" designs, lampshades sporting buckskin fringe. On the walls hung Mr. Mellowhorn's mounted mule deer heads and a two-man crosscut saw. It was the time of year when Berenice Pann became conscious of the earth's dark turning, not a...
Slog (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Annie Proulx is very upset to discover that there's Brokeback Mountain fanfic online. The Guardian has some samples. There's the title of this post, of course, and also this: "Everything about Jack and his jeans disturbed and tormented Ennis that summer of '63 until all he could think of or see was blue" Proulx says : "There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
As Annie Proulx objects to pornographic Brokeback Mountain fanfic, the Guardian highlights some of the worst of it.
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
A short-story collection from Brokeback Mountain 's Annie Proulx: Fine Just the Way It Is
USA Today (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Annie Proulx ends The Shipping News, her 1993 Pulitzer prize-winning novel set in Newfoundland, with a wonderful line: "And it ...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
In a new story collection, Annie Proulx returns to disrupt the mythology of the Old West.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The new Wyoming-set short story collection by Annie Proulx, "Fine Just the Way It Is," includes tales of love, loss, and a sagebrush with man-size appetites, plus a story of abandonment that rivals Proulx's classic "Brokeback Mountain."
Condalmo (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
The New Yorker has its summer fiction 2008 issue lineup, with a story by Vladimir Nabokov (update: never before published in English, according to MN), and contributions by Annie Proulx, Haruki Murakami, Tobias Wolff, and George Saunders. The newest podcast (subscribe here) features VN's "Signs and Symbols." Love the cover.
