Ebook {Epub PDF} The Remains of River Names by Matt Briggs

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Genius - Literature - Matt Briggs In his strange, fractured stories, the Northwest is not a metaphor for time or transcendence. In The Remains of River Names, Briggs demonstrates a profound. Matt Briggs grew up in the Snoqualmie Valley, raised by working-class, counter-culture parents who cultivated and sold cannabis. Briggs has written two books set in rural Washington chronicling this life, The Remains of River Names and Shoot the Buffalo. Critic Ann Powers wrote of Briggs first book in the New York Times Book Review, "Briggs has captured the America that neither progressives. In the Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys tells stories set at the boundary between real men and boys in man drag. In the title story, a man tells the various myths associated with his manhood from the Breakfast Club inspired obsession with "Elephantitis of the nuts" to an unexpected bodily testing sequence executed under the florescent glare of middle school lights.

'The Remains of River Names' by Matt Briggs. Black Heron Press. Review by Andrew O'Hehir www.doorway.ru Octo Web posted at: p.m. EST ( GMT). "With this first collection that functions as a novel, Matt Briggs adds to the gravelly layers of “Northwest writing,” while the controversy over what the moniker means must continue. The Remains of River Names is a beautiful, blunt, and haunting book, one that takes regionalism and splinters it; Briggs is a voice that will take our area into the future, and I for one look forward to it.". The Remains of River Names. The countercultural excesses of the s and s cast a long shadow on the family at the heart of Briggs's keenly intuitive debut effort--a collection of 11 linked.