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Photo: Miriam Berkley
Now out from the University of New Mexico Press

LOCK & LOAD: ARMED FICTION—
BECAUSE NOTHING SAYS AMERICA LOUDER THAN A GUN.


In this unique new anthology of literary fiction, acclaimed masters and new voices offer stories concerned with the ultimate American tool and technology: firearms.

Guns, as instruments of war, self-defense, hunting, or skill, have been intrinsic to our history and myth for as long as we've been America. They've also figured large in American fiction, from Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales through Crane's Red Badge of Courage through Faulkner's classic “The Bear,” right up to today.

Although political questions about guns—who has them and who ought to have them, whether ownership should be restricted or freely available—have made these objects and their ownership almost undiscussable, Lock & Load looks at firearms from a literary perspective.

Rather than taking a political stance, Lock & Load brings readers the best stories available by living American writers. Artistically significant and thought-provoking, Lock & Load offers fresh, contemporary takes on an archetypal American object.

We have to talk. Because we disagree. Literature gives us words.

Stories give us ways.


Lock & Load—the only book in America helping us have the conversation.

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