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Last Call: A Collection of New Stories
Last Call is now available at the New York Public Library!
"In the New West of McCarthy and McGuane, old sheriffs and ranch hands look at the present with barely veiled disdain. In Last Call, contemporary fathers look to the future, hoping the sins of their past haven’t already damned their children. New West fiction makes an icon of the past while Oliver considers what’s to come; perhaps he’s the Next West."
--Peter Soliunas
High Country News
"In his book 'Last Call,' Oliver strips away all pretenses and forces the reader to face that we are, in fact, human. We all make mistakes, and those mistakes affect not only us, but those around us...The stories in this collection are bleak and raw but in the end, Blair Oliver finds humor in the black hole his characters have created for themselves. He makes it possible for us to see ourselves mirrored in the depressing circumstances, yet in the safety of an outsider’s opinion, find a small silver lining. I am honestly stunned by this collection and the stories in 'Last Call' will stay with me for a long time to come."
--Danielle Feliciano, Reader Views
“Like all good fiction, whether it is movies, books or music, Last Call releases the reader back into his or her life with a new interpretive frame to see the world through, and when faced with a similar situation, readers will have the feeling that someone else has been through it as well.”
--Nathan Harper, Scene Magazine, Colorado
"Throughout the nine stories that culminate this book, I very much liked the neorealist approach in plot structure and development, returning to the commonplace of family and little nuisances that go unnoticed but actually make up much of what life really is. The details are precise and developed the character's story in an interesting, external way."
--Griffin Faust
The Rocky Mountain Collegian
"In the New West of McCarthy and McGuane, old sheriffs and ranch hands look at the present with barely veiled disdain. In Last Call, contemporary fathers look to the future, hoping the sins of their past haven’t already damned their children. New West fiction makes an icon of the past while Oliver considers what’s to come; perhaps he’s the Next West."
--Peter Soliunas
High Country News
"In his book 'Last Call,' Oliver strips away all pretenses and forces the reader to face that we are, in fact, human. We all make mistakes, and those mistakes affect not only us, but those around us...The stories in this collection are bleak and raw but in the end, Blair Oliver finds humor in the black hole his characters have created for themselves. He makes it possible for us to see ourselves mirrored in the depressing circumstances, yet in the safety of an outsider’s opinion, find a small silver lining. I am honestly stunned by this collection and the stories in 'Last Call' will stay with me for a long time to come."
--Danielle Feliciano, Reader Views
“Like all good fiction, whether it is movies, books or music, Last Call releases the reader back into his or her life with a new interpretive frame to see the world through, and when faced with a similar situation, readers will have the feeling that someone else has been through it as well.”
--Nathan Harper, Scene Magazine, Colorado
"Throughout the nine stories that culminate this book, I very much liked the neorealist approach in plot structure and development, returning to the commonplace of family and little nuisances that go unnoticed but actually make up much of what life really is. The details are precise and developed the character's story in an interesting, external way."
--Griffin Faust
The Rocky Mountain Collegian
133 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 27, 2007
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