The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Toast]

After Brokeback Mountain:

Ms. Proulx's expansion of the concept of postcards is what transforms a rambling tale into a minimalist saga. They appear in the novel [Postcards] as graphics, complete with franking, address and message, and serve to introduce narrative sections, keeping the reader oriented over the sweep of half a century, sketching in background, casting foreshadows.

One postcard, addressed to F. Fuller, County Agent, Office, Cream Hill, recapitulates Mink's fury at Loyal's departure: "Don't come out my farm no more with your DAMN insemination RACKET. We got rid the Holstins. Guess we stick with god (sic) local Jersey stock Do it the old fashion way with a BULL."

A Family Running on Empty

[Fran]

After BBM:

In 2004 Annie Proulx wrote Bad Dirt:  Wyoming Stories 2, which includes the story Dump Junk.

[southendmd]

Before BBM:  Annie marries her third husband, James Hamilton Lang.

"In the late 1960s in Vermont, where I had returned to continue my education at the University of Vermont, I married James Hamilton Lang, the father of my son Morgan Lang and the adopting father of Jon and Gillis. This marriage ended in amiable divorce twenty years later after a long separation, and we remain friends. It gradually dawned on me that I am not well-suited for marriage."

{from annieproulx.com}

[Toast]

Brokeback Mountain:

Annie Proulx:  "The production designer, Judy Becker, toured Texas (where some of the story is set) and Wyoming, making notes so that the selection of landscape shots in Alberta would match what is on the ground in Texas and Wyoming. Except for a scene in which horses are moving through a forest with deep ground moss, the landscapes very much fit Wyoming."

At close range with Annie Proulx

[memento]

Before BBM:
Annie Proulx wrote The Shipping News in 1993.

[southendmd]

Before BBM: Annie Proulx wrote The Accordion Crimes.

Beginning in the late 1800s and ending 100 years later, the novel follows a vividly realized cast of characters, whose names are as colorful as their stories: Ludwig Messermacher, Abelardo Relampago Salazar, Dolor Gagnon, Onesiphore Malefoot, Hieronim Przybysz.

[Fran]

Before BBM:

In 1993 E. Annie Proulx became the first woman to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner book award, for her debut novel Postcards.

[Toast]

1993 PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction
Shutout Ends: It's Men 12, Women 1

"Being the first woman does give winning this a whole other dimension," Ms. Proulx (rhymes with shoe) said by telephone from her home in Vershire, Vt., a small town in the central part of the state. "It's impossible to know whether it was a whim or what, but I'm pretty happy. I was pretty sure Robert Olen Butler was going to get it."

By ESTHER B. FEIN NYTimes

[memento]

After BBM:

Close Range: Wyoming Stories was published by Scribner in 1999.

[Fran]

After BBM:

Annie Proulx's Bad Dirt:  Wyoming Stories 2, published in 2004, is a collection of the following short stories:

• The Hellhole
• The Indian Wars Refought
• The Trickle Down Effect
• What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?
• The Old Badger Game
• Man Crawling Out of Trees
• The Contest
• The Wamsutter Wolf
• Summer of the Hot Tubs
• Dump Junk
• Florida Rental