Eighty

Brian Ames's stories are reminiscent of both Hemingway and Raymond Carver, but where Hemingway's characters are stoically going about the business of living up to their own self-images of masculinity, and Carver's characters struggle to live with their failures as men, Ames's male protagonists in Eighty-Sixed (Word Riot Press, 2004) are, if not exactly "hapless," as the book's subtitle has it, comically unable to recognize their failures even while they're enduring them.

Writing and Publishing 2010

Amelia Earhart, Marco Polo, Around the World in Eighty Days; just choose aroute to find out more.

2009 September « Items of Interest 2009

The story follows him on a post-career elk hunt (an activity that figures into several of the stories in Eighty-Sixed), during which he thinks back on the important stages of his life as a baseball player, but he seems mostly puzzled by it all, not anguished, or even regretful.

Writing and Publishing 2010

In 1888, Nellie suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time.

Five People Born on Cinco de Mayo | myFiveBest 2010

The themes of grief and loss, love and incompatibility, translate well into any language and I'm sneaking it into Around the World in Eighty Books because everyone knows you travel to Australia via Sweden.

45 entries from March 2008 2008

In fact, though I'm a mere novice to the Mankell ranks, I think Ken will do very nicely for Kurt, and I'm counting this one into the Around the World in Eighty Books challenge too and then it's off to The Tinker, because I just know he'll love these.

Once more unto the screech (of tyres), dear Ken. 2008

In fact, though I'm a mere novice to the Mankell ranks, I think Ken will do very nicely for Kurt, and I'm counting this one into the Around the World in Eighty Books challenge too and then it's off to The Tinker, because I just know he'll love these.

45 entries from March 2008 2008

I wasn't quite sure what to expect from Around the World in Eighty Books.

Dymphna and D'Arcy 2008

In fact, though I'm a mere novice to the Mankell ranks, I think Ken will do very nicely for Kurt, and I'm counting this one into the Around the World in Eighty Books challenge too and then it's off to The Tinker, because I just know he'll love these.

Once more unto the screech (of tyres), dear Ken. 2008

Now Kurt's taken me to Sweden might as well hang around on my Around the World in Eighty Books challenge and see what's selling.

45 entries from March 2008 2008