Review: Beth Alvarado’s Anthropologies

September 16, 2011February 10, 2018 lewisdejong

The beginning of Anthropologies feels like something you’ve remembered before—a frail mother recounts stories for a middle-aged daughter. But then, the daughter is 18, and she wears bell bottoms and a black tee shirt and argues with the mother about a boyfriend. The argument ends and it is Colorado in 1968, and the windows fog… Read More Review: Beth Alvarado’s Anthropologies

Interview with Beth Alvarado

September 15, 2011February 10, 2018 lewisdejong1 Comment

Beth Alvarado is the author of Anthropologies: A Family Memoir (University of Iowa Press, 2011) and the story collection Not a Matter of Love (New Rivers Press, 2006). A recent essay, “Days of the Dead” was published in Sonora Review, and a new story, “The Astonished Dead,” has just appeared in Western Humanities Review. Not… Read More Interview with Beth Alvarado