Now scheduling a one month tour for How to Be a Man by Tamara Linse
This tour will run Feb 10- March 10 (weekdays only)
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How
to Be a Man
Tamara
Linse
Genre: Literary Short Story
Collection
Publisher: Willow Words
Print
ISBN: 0991386701
ISBN-13: 978-0-9913867-0-3
Epub
ISBN: 099138671X
ISBN-13: 978-0-9913867-1-0
ASIN: B00HKSLFSQ
Number of pages: 238
Word Count: 59,650
Book
Description:
“Never acknowledge the fact that
you’re a girl, and take pride when your guy friends say, ‘You’re one of the
guys.’ Tell yourself, ‘I am one of the guys,’ even though, in the back of your
mind, a little voice says, ‘But you’ve got girl parts.’” – Birdie, in “How to
Be a Man”
A girl whose self-worth revolves
around masculinity, a bartender who loses her sense of safety, a woman who
compares men to plants, and a boy who shoots his cranked-out father.
These are a few of the
hard-scrabble characters in Tamara Linse’s debut short story collection, How to
Be a Man. Set in contemporary Wyoming—the myth of the West taking its
toll—these stories reveal the lives of tough-minded girls and boys,
self-reliant women and men, struggling to break out of their lonely lives and
the emotional havoc of their families to make a connection, to build a life
despite the odds. How to Be a Man falls within the tradition of Maile Meloy,
Tom McGuane, and Annie Proulx.
The author Tamara Linse—writer,
cogitator, recovering ranch girl—broke her collarbone when she was three, her
leg when she was four, a horse when she was twelve, and her heart ever since.
Raised on a ranch in northern Wyoming, she earned her master’s in English from
the University of Wyoming, where she taught writing. Her work appears in the
Georgetown Review, South Dakota Review, and Talking River, among others, and
she was a finalist for an Arts & Letters and Glimmer Train contests, as
well as the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize for a book of short stories. She
works as an editor for a foundation and a freelancer. Find her online at
tamaralinse.com and tamara-linse.blogspot.com
About
the Author:
Tamara Linse grew up on a ranch
in northern Wyoming with her farmer/rancher rock-hound ex-GI father, her
artistic musician mother from small-town middle America, and her four sisters
and two brothers. She jokes that she was raised in the 1880s because they did
things old-style—she learned how to bake bread, break horses, irrigate, change
tires, and be alone, skills she’s been thankful for ever since. The ranch was a
partnership between her father and her uncle, and in the 80s and 90s the two
families had a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud.
She worked her way through the
University of Wyoming as a bartender, waitress, and editor. At UW, she was
officially in almost every college on campus until she settled on English and
after 15 years earned her bachelor’s and master’s in English. While there, she
taught writing, including a course called Literature and the Land, where
students read Wordsworth and Donner Party diaries during the week and hiked in
the mountains on weekends. She also worked as a technical editor for an
environmental consulting firm.
She still lives in Laramie,
Wyoming, with her husband Steve and their twin son and daughter. She writes
fiction around her job as an editor for a foundation. She is also a
photographer, and when she can she posts a photo a day for a Project 365.
Please stop by Tamara’s website, www.tamaralinse.com, and her blog, Writer,
Cogitator, Recovering Ranch Girl, at tamara-linse.blogspot.com. You can find an
extended bio there with lots of juicy details. Also friend her on Facebook and
follow her on Twitter, and if you see her in person, please say hi.
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