Woodswork

Miles Wilson’s short stories have been widely published, and his collection Line of Fall won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. He is also the author of two other prize-winning books, Fire Season and Harm: Poems. Wilson is a distinguished professor emeritus at Texas State University, where he founded the MFA program.

This collection of mostly gut-wrenching stories is one of the best pieces of literature I have read in a long, long while. It should become a classic. . . . Comparisons might include . . . books by Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, Hemingway, Ray Carver, Norman Maclean, Larry Brown, William Kittredge’s We Are Not in This Together and Owning It All, Jim Harrison’s Legends of the Fall. And also Tom McGuane. But Miles Wilson has his own original voice and it’s a doozy. I’m startled by how good this book is."" - John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War