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This powerful debut collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona, introduces a darkly inventive new voice. Like an early Richard Ford, Don Waters writes with skill, empathy, and an edgy wit of worlds not often celebrated in contemporary literature. Set in bars, mortuaries, nursing homes, truck stops, and the "poverty motels that encircled downtown's casino corridor," Waters's ten stories are full of misfit transients like Julian, a crematorium worker who decorates abandoned urns to create a "lush underground island," and the instant Mormon missionary Eli, a hapless d

Short stories, American --- American short stories --- American fiction --- Southwest, New --- Sunbelt States

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American literature --- Spanish American literature --- History and criticism. --- Southwest, New --- In literature. --- Intellectual life. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Sunbelt States

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"In this volume Steve Lekson argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, he advocates an entirely new approach, one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking. Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco Canyon, the book provides a historical analysis of how Southwest archaeology confined itself, how it can break out of those confines, and how it can proceed into the future. Lekson suggests that much of what we believe about the ancient Southwest should be radically revised. Looking past old preconceptions brings a different Chaco Canyon into view. More than an eleventh-century Pueblo ritual center, Chaco was a political capital with nobles and commoners, a regional economy, and deep connections to Mesoamerica. By getting the history right, a very different science of the ancient Southwest becomes possible and archaeology can be reinvented as a very different discipline."--Provided by publisher.

Chaco culture --- Archaeology --- Chaco phase --- Chacoan culture --- Chacoan phase --- Ancestral Pueblo culture --- Research --- History. --- Methodology. --- Southwest, New --- Chaco Canyon (N.M.) --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Sunbelt States

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The humor of the Old South -- tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters -- flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of major southern writers such as William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews, as well as in contemporary popular culture focusing on the rural South.This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty five years' best writing on the subject, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and

American wit and humor --- Humorists, American --- American literature --- American humorists --- History and criticism --- Homes and haunts --- Southern States --- Southwest, Old --- Central States --- Central States Region --- Old Southwest --- South Central States --- Sunbelt States --- In literature. --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism.

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Mexican Americans --- Civil rights movements --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Civil liberation movements --- Liberation movements (Civil rights) --- Protest movements (Civil rights) --- Human rights movements --- Civil rights --- History --- Politics and government. --- United States --- Southwest, New --- Sunbelt States --- Politics and government --- Ethnic relations.