Mitch Cullin, Author . Dufour $14.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8023-1336-2
Texas is a big place, as everyone knows, though not big enough to fully contain Cullin's literary imagination. After three gritty novels set in the vast, empty Texas countryside (Whompyjawed; Branches; Tideland), Cullin ranges across the globe...
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Mitch Cullin, Author . Permanent $24 (192p) ISBN 978-1-57962-077-6
Cullin's latest (after The Cosmology of Bing) is a brief but incisive account of a Tucson teacher's descent into the lurid, furtive world of illicit gay sex, which lands him in the wrong place at the wrong time when a murder is committed....
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Mitch Cullin, Author . Doubleday/Talese $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-51328-9
The Sherlock Holmes pastiche is a time-honored tradition, though most attempts are interesting primarily to Sherlockians who pick them apart, searching for mistakes. But Cullin (Branches
; Tideland
; etc.) has produced an ambitious, beautifully...
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Mitch Cullin, Author . Doubleday/Talese $24 (237p) ISBN 978-0-385-51329-6
Cullins's sterile eighth novel is the bleak dirge of Korean War vet Hollis Adams as he revisits the nightmarish past he has spent his life avoiding. The novel opens at Hollis's home in a golfing community in snow-covered Arizona, where Hollis dreams
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Mitch Cullin, Author Dufour Editions $22.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-8023-1335-5
Traces of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily and faint echoes of the horror film classic Psycho infuse this highly charged, eccentrically imaginative narrative by the author of Branches. The unusual tale comprises mainly dialogues between 11-year-old...
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Mitch Cullin, Author Permanent Press (NY) $24 (160p) ISBN 978-1-57962-023-3
Willy Keeler, a na ve but occasionally prescient high school senior and star football player, comes of age in Cullin's debut novel, revealing the injustices of his small hometown of Claude, Tex., while seemingly unconscious of his own sensitivity....
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Mitch Cullin, Author Permanent Press (NY) $24 (192p) ISBN 978-1-57962-030-1
In his latest outing, Cullin (Branches) imagines the anxiety- and paranoia-ridden inner life of alcoholic social pariah Dr. Bing Owen, an aging, sexually repressed astronomy professor at Moss University, a sanctimonious private island of academia in
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Mitch Cullin, Author, Ryuzo Kikushima, Illustrator Permanent Press (NY) $22 (198p) ISBN 978-1-57962-061-5
A smalltown West Texas sheriff is the antihero of Cullin's quietly chilling short novel in verse. Pacing the desolate, burnt-out ruins of his boyhood home 22 miles from town, Sheriff Branches (a minor character in Cullin's previous novel,...
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