Many a Palouse area resident has gone to sleep with a sparkling clean car left outside only to wake up the next morning and notice a fine coating of some
Fourth Generation Mexican-American Writer James Carlos Blake Delivers Short Fiction That s Long On Style And Substance.
By Jim Carvalho
Borderlands: Short Fictions,by James Carlos Blake
(Avon). Paper, $12.50.
JAMES CARLOS BLAKE S middle name isn t just a gimmick to
garner border cred. He was born with both. In the autobiographical essay
opening his fine new collection
Borderlands, Blake outlines
this colorful family history. Robert Blake, the author s great-great-great-grandfather, was
an Englishman who fathered a child in New Hampshire before heading
to the Gulf of Mexico to become a pirate. He was captured and
executed by the Mexican government in 1826. His son, John Blake,
A Mixed Collection Of Work By Kent Anderson Is A Powerful Narrative Of Uncomfortable Circumstances.
By Jim Carvalho
Liquor, Guns, & Ammo, by Kent Anderson (Dennis
McMillan Publications). Cloth, $30.
I m just white trash who got tough and lucky.another guy who
rides the bus nothing more, nothing less. Only difference is
that I got the words to write about it. from the introduction to Liquor, Guns, & Ammo
KENT ANDERSON GOT tough and lucky in the Merchant Marine,
in the Green Berets, and as a street cop in Portland and Oakland.
And his widely acclaimed novels
Sympathy for the Devil,
based on his experiences in war, and