· The young men in Callan Wink's excellent first book of stories are a wrong move or two from being cut out of the herd, from falling into nonentity. Yet one of the great things about Dog Run Moon is how resilient and funny they are. They're at the end of their ropes, but they can still howl about the joy and pain each day brings, as if the young Levon Helm were singing their stories This is Brand: Random House Publishing Group. Callan Winkis the author of Dog Run Moon: Stories and the forthcoming novel, August (Random House). He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays appear widely, including in The New Yorker, Granta, Playboy, Men’s Journal and The Best American Short Stories Anthology. · She adds, “A man ought to give the impression that he’s alone.”. The young men in Callan Wink’s excellent first book of stories, “Dog Run Moon,” are alone in a hundred different ways Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
Callan Wink. Callan Wink is the author of Dog Run Moon: Stories and the forthcoming novel, August (Random House). He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays appear widely, including in The New Yorker, Granta, Playboy, Men's. Callan Wink: "Dog Run Moon". Originally published in The New Yorker, Septem. With a brief disclaimer to explain Sid's stark condition — he's a nude sleeper — the story begins in the middle of action, with Sid "running barefoot and bare-assed across the sharp sandstone rimrock far above the lights of town. "Callan Wink's stories remind me of expertly tied trout flies—beautifully crafted, true to reality, and barbed. What a fine young writer."—Ron Rash, author of Above the Waterfall "As in all the best collections, each and every story in Dog Run Moon sings in the essential.
A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Custer's Last Stand reenactor engaged in a long-running affair with the Native American woman who slays him on the battlefield every year; a middle-aged high school janitor caught in a scary dispute over land and cattle with her former stepson: Callan Wink's characters are often confronted with predicaments few of us can imagine. The young men in Callan Wink's excellent first book of stories are a wrong move or two from being cut out of the herd, from falling into nonentity. Yet one of the great things about Dog Run Moon is how resilient and funny they are. They're at the end of their ropes, but they can still howl about the joy and pain each day brings, as if the young Levon Helm were singing their stories This is Thomas McGuane territory, and also that of writers like Joy Williams and Jim Harrison Mr. Wink. Tender, frequently hilarious, and always electrifying, Dog Run Moon announces the arrival of a bold new talent writing deep in the American grain. Praise for Dog Run Moon “[An] excellent first book of stories One of the great things about Dog Run Moon is how resilient and funny [the characters] are.
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