A Library Journal Best Short Story Collection of the Year
‘Unsentimental stories that tell us what the American West looks like now and what we’ve lost.’ —LIBRARY JOURNAL
The Utah Canyons Wild Mall gives tourists exactly what they want. An archivist preserves a rare map of a vanished Lake Tahoe. The Grand Canyon can only be visited in replica form. These stories—lyrical, deadpan, surreal—blur the line between the natural world and the world we make.
ERICA OLSEN lives in the Four Corners area, where she does archives and curation work for archaeology museums. A graduate of Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Montana MFA program, she has also been a Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. Her short fiction has appeared in
ZYZZYVA,
High Desert Journal, and other publications, and her nonfiction pieces in magazines including
Fine Books & Collections and
High Country News. Her work has received awards including the 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose (for “Grand Canyon II, ” included in
Recapture).
Daftar Isi
Contents
Grand Canyon II 5
Adventure Highway 8
Everything Is Red 21
Driveaway 31
Reverse Archaeology 48
The Discovery of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park 58
The Keepers 60
Bristlecone 64
The Curation of Silence 70
Going to Randsburg 88
Utah Wild Mall Rangers 103
Wonders of the World 110
Persuasion 119
A Dish of Stinging Nettles 129
Everywhen 134
Recapture 140
Acknowledgments 172
Tentang Penulis
Erica Olsen has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana, English degrees from Stanford and Harvard and was the recipient of a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recently she has worked at two archaeological museums.
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