American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbel henry the hatter In Talking Shops

In Talking Shops

Rich with detail and brimming with feeling

and other oases of respite in these buildings

The well-crafted lines in Michael Lauchlan’s Trumbull Ave

Second Edition" Edited by Andy Linn

American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbel henry the hatter In Talking ShopsTrumbull Ave: Poems by Michael Lauchlan Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in FictionFinalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionThese short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.National Book Award citationAmerican Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters