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Friday, May 16, 2008

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May
There is a literature of rage, one that has long and noble roots. It ranges from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy, encompasses every style and tone from the epic Russian novels to the comic plays of Oscar Wilde, and it became the catalyst that helped fuel the school of hardboiled detective fiction as it evolved from pulp magazines to hardback novels. One such hardback example is James Lee Burke's 2007 novel "The Tin Roof Blowdown," a book that sets Burke's longtime protagonist, New Iberia, La., detective Dave Robicheaux, amid the destruction that Hurricane Katrina wreaked across the Southern Gulf Coast in the summer of 2005. Burke's novel, which is The Spokesman-Review's Book Club read for May, is ablaze with the author's rage over the destruction of an area that has been a part of his life since his birth 71 years ago in Houston, Texas.
  Dan Webster writes about the author

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Reader reviews
Naked in Baghdad, by Anne Garrels
  - reviewed by Sara Denman
The Ancient Rain, by Domenic Stansberry
  - reviewed by Susan Creed

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Staff reviews
South to Alaska: From the Heartland of America to the Heart of a Dream, by Nancy Owens Barnes
Dancing at the Rascal Fair, by Ivan Doig
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
Breaking Blue, by Tim Egan

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Features on Northwest authors

2002
Oct: Kent Haruf
Nov: David James Duncan
Dec: Tim Egan

2003
Jan: Marilynne Robinson
Feb: Ivan Doig
Mar: Sherman Alexie
Apr: Ursula Hegi
May: Duff Wilson
Jun: Mary Clearman Blew
Jul: Chuck Palahniuk
Aug: Rebecca Wells
Sep: David Guterson
Oct: Linda Lawrence Hunt
Nov: Moritz Thomsen
Dec: Larry Colton

2004
Jan: Jayne Ann Krentz
Feb: Gregory Spatz
Mar: Andrea Vogt
Apr: Jess Walter
May: Debra Magpie Earling
Jun: Ken Kesey
Jul: Kim Barnes
Sep: Mitch Finley
Dec: Jon Krakauer

2005
Jan: Michael Dibdin
Feb: Pete Fromm
Mar: Raymond Carver and Pam Houston
Apr: Natalie Kusz
May: J.A. Jance
Jun: Andrew Vachss
Jul: Charles Johnson
Aug: Jonathan Raban
Sep: David Long
Oct: Carl Hiaasen
Nov: John Keeble
Dec: James Welch

2006
Jan: Robert Clark
Feb: Kathleen Tyau
Mar: Terry Davis
Apr: John Saul
May: Annick Smith
Jun: Norman Maclean
Jul: Kathleen Alcalá
Aug:
Sep: Alex Kuo
Oct: Rebecca Brown
Nov: Gregg Olsen
Dec: Peter Chilson

2007
Jan: Deirdre McNamer
Feb: Erik Larson
Mar: Ursula K. Le Guin
Apr: Lydia Yuri Minatoya
May: Patrick F. McManus
June: Robert Wrigley
July: April Christofferson
August: Thom Jones
September: Chris Crutcher
October: Peter Chilson
November: Valerie Trueblood
November: Jack Nisbet

2008
Jan: Denis Johnson
Feb: Nancy Owens Barnes
March: James Crumley
May: James Lee Burke