Publications
Between Here and the Yellow Sea
McAdam/Cage (2006)
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From the book jacket: A debut collection of short fiction from National Magazine Award in Fiction finalist Nic Pizzolatto.
Set in a variety of Southern and Midwestern landscapes—from Missouri’s Ha Ha Tonka State Park to a crop circle at a Minnesotan farm—the stories in Between Here and the Yellow Sea excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. With a forceful and compassionate voice, Pizzolatto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and present, and, sometimes, between their inner and outer selves.
The Atlantic Monthly, "Between Here and the Yellow Sea"
"Interstate 10 after midnight, westbound. El Paso now. Coach Duprene says he can drive till morning. Blank asphalt rolls ahead, but I'm seeing Amanda, picturing the way she looked in high school: small-chested in a cheerleading uniform, auburn hair, green eyes, freckles dusting her nose." Read more »
The Atlantic Monthly, "Ghost Birds"
"Then the city enters another torpid and simmering May. Parents grimace while pulling their kids through the Museum of Westward Expansion, and barges moan down the Mississippi. Something erupted at the Dowling Industrial factory, and the gases are making our sunsets plum and plutonium orange." Read more »
Other Publications
- The Missouri Review, "1987, The Races"
- Shenandoah, "Amy’s Watch"
- Quarterly West, "The Guild of Thieves, Lost Women, and Sunrise Palms"
- The Iowa Review, "Haunted Earth"
- Stories from the Blue Moon Café, Volume 4, "A Cryptograph"