Southwestern American Literature

Volume XX No. 1 (Fall 1994)

Editors' Page	iv


*Nonfiction*

Bill Brammer's The Gay Place: A Reexamination Don Graham	7

Transtextuality in Anything for Billy Annette Olsen-Fazi	29

"I'm Told I'd Lain There for Three Days": Larry McMurtry's Anything for Billy and the Fiction of Embellishment Howard Waltersdorf	39

And the Word Becomes Horseflesh: The Unheard Discourse of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses Tim Poland	45

"Doomed Enterprise" and Faith: The Structure of Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing Charles Bailey	57

The Trials and Tribulations of a Writer's Spouse Ernestine S. Linck	69


*Fiction*

Donating Blood Ann McVay	77


Poetry

Accounts Marty Lewis	91

Serbin Dave Oliphant	92

Uvalde Dave Oliphant	94

Paris Dave Oliphant	96


Reviews

Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico by Marc Treib Jesus F. de la Teja	99

Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katherine Berry Judson, ed. John S. Hill	100

Texas: The Dark Corner of the Confederacy by P. Gallaway, ed. Clay Reynolds	101

Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture by Terry G. Jordan John S. Hill	103

Native Plants for Southwestern Landscapes by Judy Mielke Brad Smith	104

Pyramids of Glass: Short Fiction from Modern Mexico by David Bowen and Juan A. Archer, eds. Herlinda R. James	105

Can You Get There From Here? by Dordey Watt The Journey of Hector Rabinal by Donley Watt Steve Davis	107

The Man Who Would Be God by Paul Ruffin Annette Olsen-Fazi	109

The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker Don Graham	111

The 23rd Dream by Kathlyn Whitsitt Egbert Annette Olsen-Fazi	112

The Collected Stories of Max Brand by Robert and Jane Easton, eds. John S. Hill	114

Trailin' by Max Brand John S. Hill	115

Platte River by Rick Bass Ray Robertson	116

Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas by Jose Limbn Jaime Armin Mejia	118

Jerry Bywaters: A Life in Art by Francine Carraro Michzel Grauer	119

When Coyote Howls: A Lavaland Fable by Robert Franklin Gish Songs of My Hunter Heart: A Western Kinship by Robert Franklin Gish Mark Busby	121

Border Crossings by David L. Fleming Nancy Grayson	123


Contributors	125

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