The Writer's Workshop Review - An Online Literary Magazine

An Online Literary Magazine

July 25, 2008

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From The Other

Fiction

David Guterson

John William Barry has inherited the wealth of two of Seattle’s elite families; Neil Countryman is blue-collar Irish. They’re brought together by a love of the outdoors that takes them into Washington’s remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits—and each other—to survive.

Stone Lambs

Fiction

Jana Harris

Franklin “Lucky” Tubbs recalls July 1887, when he was a man without language or history, his pockets empty, except for one single word of English—that gold coin, that light unto his path, America.

God’s Judgment

Fiction

Peter Donahue

An Indian attack on the early settlement of Seattle exposes the divisions between the native tribes and whites as well as the seemingly insurmountable differences between the settlers themselves.

George Tsutakawa, “Cowlitz Chimneys and Mt. Rainier,” 1982, Sumi ink on paper, 23”h x 29” w, Museum of Northwest Art, gift of The Catterall Collection, 04.16.

Stories Steeped in the Natural World: A Talk with David Guterson

Interview

Christian Martin

“Nothing has really changed in terms of the relationship of the storyteller to the culture at large. People have always needed stories, and the role of the storyteller is to provide for that need, to allow people to have the experience of the story. Certainly people want to be entertained; they want to be seized. At the same time, the story should engage the deepest human questions. There’s a necessity for people to ponder important questions. The story should create the context for the questioning, and I want to create an opportunity for readers to do that. The questions really deep inside of me are also the deepest questions for everybody else.” David Guterson.

Dispatches

Climbing the Dragon’s Back

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

Edging Skills or Hospital Bills: Tom Remmers tackles knife-edged ridges, nervy traverses and an exposed 20-foot inch-wide ledge to push his limits on Wolf’s Head Peak in the Wind River Range of Wyoming.

A Rare Blend

Nonfiction

Erin Byrne

Group travel had always made the author assume the emotional fetal position, but a trip to St. Emilion, France, featuring a pork roast laced with black truffles, a group of like-minded compatriots and a visit to Lafite Rothschild makes her reconsider.

Editor's Note: A Return To Storytelling

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

Readers crave stories. They may fall in love with characters, savor delicious language, delight in vividly rendered details, but without a story they may lose heart.