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But through the transparency of his writing, at once delicate and brutally precise, the author gifts us with the wonderful feeling of knowing someone you’ve only met in a book.”—Publishers Weekly“The perils of work and the weight of bequeathal fuel these stories, and each one holds a lasting, unshakable image. He also seems born and bred to short-story mastery.”—Joy Williams, author of The Visiting Privilege   “Callan Wink’s debut is impressive indeed. Callan Wink has the wisdom to write only of the things that matter, and the talent to make these stories as fresh as the literary headwaters from which they come.”—Smith Henderson, author of Fourt

Extraordinary writing! Daffy Du My god, Callan Wink's got talent! I think the last time I was this blown away by a new author was when I read Ethan Canin's first book, Emperor of the Air, which like Dog Run Moon is also a collection of exceptional short stories.The nine stories in Dog Run Moon are slices of life, principally in Montana, and all but one is told from the male point of view. Many of his . He's Not There Yet I find it very hard to understand why this little collection of mediocre juvenilia got published – let alone represented. (Maybe Callan Wink knows someone.) The concept of “promise” as applied to him is a stretch based on these stories. In almost every case, it is as if he had the germ of an idea and immediately started writing, hoping things would wor. "A promising debut collection" according to Marcheto Algernon. This debut collection has turned out to be a pleasant surprise for two reasons. The first one, because as I had not read anything by Callan Wink I had no idea about what to expect; and the second one, because I didn’t find the first story (which is usually one of the strongest in every collection) especially compelling. But curiously enough, I found myself increas

He also seems born and bred to short-story mastery.”—Joy Williams, author of The Visiting Privilege “Callan Wink’s debut is impressive indeed. Callan Wink has the wisdom to write only of the things that matter, and the talent to make these stories as fresh as the literary headwaters from which they come.”—Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek. Weeks later I’m still living with the characters.”—Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall“Callan Wink’s fresh, urgent stories have an energy and propulsion that set them well apart from the cerebral finger painting of so much literary fiction. What a fine young writer.&rd

. He is the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, Men’s Journal, and The Best American Short Stories. Callan Wink was born in Michigan in 1984. He lives in Livingston, Montana, where he is a fly-fishing guide on the Yell