The New Northern Gothic: <br />With Melinda Moustakis
The linked stories of Melinda Moustakis's graceful debut collection, Bear Down, Bear North, are so coated in Alaskan grit, we assumed she grew up there, in a cabin with an outhouse, shooting rifles, gutting fish, sneaking cranberry lick from the kitchen cupboard. We were surprised to learn that, after spending her first five years in Fairbanks, …