Annie Proulx, author of eight books of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Shipping News,” and the story collection that contains “Brokeback Mountain,” has written “Bird Cloud” — ...

"It's place that interests me," Annie Proulx told the Paris Review in 2009, "... the story comes from place." It's true of all her fiction. From her debut story collection "Heart Songs and Other ...

It goes without saying that "Bird Cloud" is a memoir unlike other memoirs: It is not about its author and her unusual life -- it is about what matters to her now that she is in her 70s. What we glean ...

This is a rare glimpse into the private world of Annie Proulx, 75-year-old author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. Bird Cloud — her first non-fiction publication in 20 years — deals with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I could say that Annie Proulx’s “Bird Cloud” is a fascinating book written in razor-sharp prose that doesn’t waste the reader’s time and that it will draw in ...

Such is the charged magic of Annie Proulx's prose that you might think there is no subject it cannot render luminous. But try Polygal. It crops up rather a lot in Proulx's latest book and, no matter ...

In November, US magazine Harper’s published an excerpt of Proulx’s Bird Cloud, her memoir of building a rural home in a remote swath of Wyoming. The essay mostly concerned itself with birds – ...