Profile; £15 A startling and persuasive analysis of the evolutionary role of cookery, arguing that you really are what you eat.Culture and societyA Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.
"There wasn't much real West left when I knew you back on the 101 Ranch," Tom Mix told a journalist who had known him years earlier in Oklahoma, "now there ain't none at all". Close Range", a collection of short stories by Annie Proulx, is definitely not light summer reading.
"It just sounds like something I wouldn't want to read," he said".I'm afraid I agree with Peter," said Mr Doctorow, whose three National Book Critics Circle Awards went to works of "historical fiction"."The phrase 'historical fiction' has a lot of ugly baggage," added Ms Proulx, whose 1997 book "Accordion Crimes" begins in Sicily in 1890.Mr Schama pursued the point.
If the 101 Ranch was preposterously larger than life, Ms Proulx offers a Wyoming that is depressingly smaller than reality.
E.L. Doctorow, Annie Proulx and Peter Carey were all participants in a discussion called "Living History" at this year's New Yorker Festival.
Few contemporary writers can match Ms Proulx for descriptive flair.
"The basis of having film adaptations made is writers consorting with the genitals of money," Ms Proulx said, referring to one of Rilke's Duino elegies.
Ms Proulx nodded in agreement.
Ms. Proulx is not among those few.
Other writers who have lived in and written about Wyoming include Gretel Ehrlich, Geoffrey O'Gara, E. Annie Proulx, and C.L. Rawlins.
Critic Elaine Showalter produced a long-awaited compendium in A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.
