Ann Cummins
Southwest Book ReviewerAnn Cummins is Professor of Creative Writing at Northern Arizona University. She has published stories in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Antioch Review, and elsewhere; her fiction has been anthologized in a variety of series including The Best American Short Stories, The Prentice Hall Anthology of Women’s Literature, and The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. A 2002 recipient of a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, she is the author of the short story collection Red Ant House, (Houghton Mifflin, spring, 2003) and the novel Yellowcake (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
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It's hard to put a label on author Pam Houston's books. The prize-winning writer blends together fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Houston will be in… -
Colorado Book Award winner Steven Schwartz has said that in a fast-paced world "fiction restores us" to a softer place in our lives. Schwartz has just… -
Need a gift for a young reader? Arizona’s Book Reviewer, writer Ann Cummins has a few suggestions that have a southwestern flair.What do you get if you… -
Did you know the great western writer Zane Grey started out as a dentist?His father was a dentist. The old man sternly disapproved of writing as a… -
We’re half-way through summer, but there’s still time for the young reader in your life to pick up a good book. Arizona Public Radio’s Ann Cummins… -
It’s April. If you’re dreaming of white water rapids, vermillion cliffs, and death taunting summer fun, I’ve got a book for you: Clyde Eddy’s A Mad, Crazy… -
A ghostly father leads his living son through weeds to an owl’s hiding place. The owl spreads its wings, taking father and son in. This is the final image… -
This fall, the writer Ann Patchett did something radical. She opened a bookstore. This goes against the trend. The indie bookstores are practically… -
Writer Sergio Troncoso graduated from Harvard, studied philosophy at Yale, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico. But he started in a Texas barrio. In his… -
http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/knau/local-knau-989752.mp3When Beth Alvarado was a child in the Fifties, her parents moved to Grand…
