Writer's N'west Handbook 4th Edition

Kalpakian, Laura

Reference

Blue Heron Publishing

Because of an agreement his alcoholic father makes with a circus, 15-year-old Eric begins a long journey south from Alaska with the huge Kodiak bear he raised from a cub.

Gloomy Gus (Old Edition)

Morey, Walt.

Children's Books

Left Bank #1: Writing and Fishing the Northwest

Blue, Heron

In 1924, Jessamyn Faber tries to rebuild her life after a personal trageDy by taking a job as switchboard operator for a small Kansas town, and realizes that she must stand up for what is right when she discovers her new town is filled with prejudice

Morning Glory Afternoon (Sunflower Editions)

Bennett Brown, I.

Romance

Skitterbrain

A young pioneer and her spunky companion follow a large cattle herd across the empty prairie in search of a runaway cow.

Brown, Irene Bennett

Teen & Young Adult

In 1918 in Kansas a young girl is determined to make it possible for her constantly moving, tenant farmer family to buy the farm that she has come to love and wants to live on permanently.

Willow Whip

Brown, Irene B.

Left Bank #6 (Kid's Stuff)

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

From the editor's foreword:"You are invited to dive into the wide expanse of our theme: from the politics of water with Marc Reisner (Cadillac Desert) who veers from his previous attacks on California's rice growers, when a traditional enemy also changes course; to the influence of rivers on personal growth in Jeff Smith's essay on extricating himself from past drownings; to water as the setting for racism depicted in Ed Edmo's painful memoir on swimming pools; to the search for water in the desert in Ellen Meloy's sardonic Las Vegas tale; to water as killer in Pam Houston's (Cowboys Are My Weakness) story of a grueling white-water ride. You can swim with dolphins, get baptized, drown, meet the shysters who sold us a dried up water philosophy, cruise the lesbian ocean, become water, flood cities, and fish for the big ones."Join us in celebrating water, and deep wells."Head/Waters seemed like a marvelously ambiguous theme. It wasn't quickly arrived at, though, with the discussion staff being pretty darned ambiguous, too. When we finally started soliciting cornerstone pieces from several authors, we began to realize that we might have a flood that would be hard to contain between the covers of a book. That made us happy. When we put out the general call for submissions, we were blown away by the response and the amazing range of takes on the theme.We had a blast. You will too.Here, in order of appearance, are the contributors: Susan Zwinger, William deBuys, Stephen J. Beard, Ellen Meloy, Ken Olsen, Aaron Johanson, Nancy Lord, Gary Snyder, Marusya Bociurkiw, Pam Houston, Brenda Peterson, George Johanson, David James Duncan, Jesssica Maxwell, Joan Skogan, Rick Rubin, Lorian Hemingway, Ed Edmo, Jeffery Smith.

Head - Waters (Left Bank, No. 7)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Set in medieval Japan during the time of the Shogun, and full of Japanese tradition and history, this murder mystery features two Samurai youths who attempt to save their teacher's village from bandits and a madman. Reprint. IP.

Village Of The Vampire Cat

Namioka, Lensey

Pursuit of Happiness turned out to be a fantastic theme for this Left Bank Book, number eight in the series.From Linny Stovall's foreword:"I became intrigued by the idea of happiness for a Lef Bank theme after reading Steve Erickson's Arcd'X, a novel that time-travels with a Jeffersonian character and explores America's ambivalence about happiness. While we thrive on developing ideologies that aspire to the common good, we stalk hedonist dreams And yet, "the pursuit of happiness," so long a home in our history, originates from the most noble of instincts--revolt against tyranny. A startling declaration, a radical promise of entitlement to all citizens (or nearly all)."But what does it mean? What constitutes happiness? And how do we pursue it?"Now for a story about this book. When we decided on a theme for a new book in the series, we first sought out several well-known authors to provide cornerstones. Then, we put out a general call to writers and artists for submissions. Third, our interns stripped the authors' names from their pieces so that we would read them without prejudice.In truth, we often recognized the distinctive voices of some writers, even without names attached, and we got good at grouping submissions by those writers who studied with certain masters or in certain writing programs. Such was the case with aspiring writers who participated in the Dangerous Writing groups lead by wonderful author Tom Spanbauer (Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon). It helped, of course, that Tom's students were always hitting us hard with submissions.One of Spanbauer's students worked for Blue Heron. As noted in an earlier review/publisher's note, this person introduced us to another Spanbauer acolyte, Chuck Palahniuk, who she invited to dinner at our house. Later, reading it without his name on it, we acquired his story Fight Club and gave him his first publication.

Pursuit of Happiness: A Left Bank Book

History & Criticism

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