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History’s “Actors”

by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 20, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Big Read, Eliza Spalding, High Noon, Molly Gloss, Shane, True Grit

Fishtrap brought novelist Molly Gloss to town last week to further the Big Read discussion of Charles Portis’s book, True Grit. Molly’s task was to trace the role of women from “dime novels” to the present day. True Grit, written about a time and place—Arkansas and...

At the edge of the rez

by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 16, 2011 | Counterpoint Press, Greasewood Creek, Jump Off Creek, Molly Gloss, Pamela Steele, Western fiction

My friend Pam Steele’s first novel, Greasewood Creek, will come out from Counterpoint Press in November. I just finished reading a galley copy, and it is a fine book, set at the edge of the rez in eastern Oregon in recent times. But more about Pam and Greasewood Creek...
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