The New Yorker has published ANOTHER new Annie Proulx story ***SPOILERS***

[Jeff Wrangler]

Newsflash!

Friends, when I got back from the Roundup yesterday, the June 9-16 issue of The New Yorker was waiting in my mailbox, and the magazine has published yet another new Annie Proulx story. This one is called "Tits-up in a Ditch"    (I'm not making that up!), and I presume it is also from her new collection, Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3, due in September.

I have not read this story, but I wanted to get out the word that it's out there.

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It's in the May 5 issue, which arrived in my mailbox yesterday. No details--haven't yet had time to read it--but it appears to be set in the "Old West" days of Wyoming.

It also appears that the story is from a new collection, Wyoming Stories 3, that will be out this year.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Hot Damn! I didn't know there was a #3 in the making, I was still waiting on the coffe table book she was collaberating on. I'll cruise by the library today and see if they have it. 

[Front-Ranger]

Yup, I finished the story last nite. It's about the devastating winter of 1885 that killed millions of head of cows in the upper states of the Rocky Mountains. That Annie Proulx does always tackle the interesting topics...the Depression, homophobia, the death of the maritime industry, and now the development of the West, seen through the eyes of Archie and Rose, a homesteading couple. He's 16, she's 14. And as usual, Annie shows no mercy in telling the story.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Yup, I finished the story last nite. It's about the devastating winter of 1885 that killed millions of head of cows in the upper states of the Rocky Mountains. That Annie Proulx does always tackle the interesting topics...the Depression, homophobia, the death of the maritime industry, and now the development of the West, seen through the eyes of Archie and Rose, a homesteading couple. He's 16, she's 14. And as usual, Annie shows no mercy in telling the story.

That is what I like about her, she shows no mercy in her sotries and when you meet her she is just as calm as the Wyoming countryside betwixt gusts of wind.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I started to read the story last night but did not finish it. I did come across some elements that sounded familiar, though, like cowboys who don't wear socks and employers who take pleasure in telling someone that he had no work for that person.

[Ellemeno]

Thanks for posting this Jeff!  Let's get it on the banner while it's stil on the newsstand!

[serious crayons]

It's about the devastating winter of 1885 that killed millions of head of cows in the upper states of the Rocky Mountains. ...  seen through the eyes of Archie and Rose, a homesteading couple.

Did they think they'd asphyxiate from the smell? Were they supposed to control the weather?


I haven't started it yet, but I'm looking forward to it. 

[Front-Ranger]

Did they think they'd asphyxiate from the smell? Were they supposed to control the weather?

Can't say, Katherine!! Those would be spoilers!!

[Oregondoggie]

That story about froze my soul.  Whew!  If the rest of the new book is like this yarn, we are in for it.  No escapin' to Mexico!

[BelAir]

It's in the May 5 issue, which arrived in my mailbox yesterday. No details--haven't yet had time to read it--but it appears to be set in the "Old West" days of Wyoming.

It also appears that the story is from a new collection, Wyoming Stories 3, that will be out this year.

oh wow.  !!!