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In fact, "Sight Hound" is about an Irish wolfhound that has cancer. "Everything I write about is something I've experienced either at the center of it or at the periphery," Houston said recently at the New York State Writers Institute. She had such a dog and spent a lot of time at the veterinary clinic. "And then I shape it." She graduated summn cum laude from Denison University in 1983 with a degree in English and rode her bicycle west, ending up in Colorado. In those tumbleweed salad days, she flagged traffic for a highway crew, drove tourist buses, tended bar and skied. In Utah later, she was a licensed river guide. She escorted hunters into the Alaskan wilderness. She used to spend more than 100 nights a year outside, but says she never shot any living thing. In 1992. she walked out before finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Utah. The early stories of outdoorswomen in hard relationships were her thesis. Not all the professors liked them. But "Cowboys Are My Weakness" turned Houston from a twenty-something graduate stu- "I love the outdoors," she dent into a literary celebrity. In the titular story, the woman says, although, "I'm less inclined goes to a dance with one weath- to risk my life in it." ered and polite Montana cowboy While "Sight Hound" sounds and walks out on the inattentive grim, Houston's reading in wildlife specialist she's been liv- Albany made 50 people laugh ing with. several limes. The story is told in She's leaving, and considers rotating chapters by 12 narrators, that maybe the phrase about including the wolfhound, the vetcowboys is just something she'd erinarian and the cat. 'Hie author learned how to say, a story that wore thick-rimmed glasses, black makes good telling, but not final- sweater and red loafers. ly her story. "A wolfhound practices nonIn "Dall," the narrator helps attachment." the wolfhound says. "They have souls as deep and her man guide for a rich, inept sportsman in Alaska. When she's authentic as anything in cresupposed to walk along the bot- ation." the veterinarian says. tom of a ridge to keep the rams "If you want the unsentimental from fleeing the two hunters, she truth of the matter, always ask a takes a few steps, sees the ani- cat." the cat says. mals stall nervously on the mounNorton editor Carol Smith tainside, then sits down to change declined lo discuss the number of her wet socks. books Houston has sold, only that "When I stood back up, I the novel is in its fourth printing. said "Cowboys" has watched the five rams, one at a She lime, slip down into the valley remained popular and was just reissued in paperback and she floor in front of me." If Hemingway's in there at all, didn't know how many languages it's not by design, Houston says. it has been translated into. It may just be 1 hat he's a seminal Houston thought the short story influence. Instead, she mentions collection might he nine lanWilla Catherand D.H. Lawrence-. guages and about 300,000 books. After the sudden early writing She was heading briefly home success, other changes followed. Wednesday and then lo Utah __ all "I got a little sick of being the by way of Pennsylvania, where outdoorsy girl ... of spending my her father just died. She recalled lime with people who only want- a sometimes, violent childhood ed to talk about Teva sandals." and said that probably sent her she said. into risky outdoor pursuits _ putIn 2001, Houston married a ting herself repeatedly in harm's member of a different breed, way to master it. Seattle repertory actor Martin In 2001. Houston and her new Buchanan, who's minding the husband rafted in the Grand ranch and the dogs during her Canyon with a small group _ her monthslong national book tour. first such outing after years of "He's the first man I've ever therapy. Some days she wept in been involved with who didn't her tent before taking the oars ask me to be less than I am." she and running dangerous rapids. said. "The problem with learning At 43. she teaches at writers' how lo feel your feelings is they workshops around the country include sheer terror." she said. and still backpacks, rides horses "All the fear that I didn't feel in my twenties, it all showed up." and skis. Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria launching new PBS series NEW YORK (AP) Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria, a regular panelist on ARC's "This Week," is starling his own weekly public broadcasting show on international topics in April. "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria" will discuss global issues such as outsourcing of jobs, diplomacy and trade issues in a formal that mixes reporting and panel discussions. its host said on Wednesday. Americans have become much more interested in international affairs since the 2001 terrorist attacks _ a topic that tele- vision gave very little time to before and still comes up short. he said. "What are the trends'1 What are the debutes? Now. more than ever, you have the demand but not the supply." Zakaria said. There's even less of a TV supply for Americans to learn how the rest of the world feels about their country, he said. "I'd like to have a discussion about the future of democracy in the Arab world with an Arab." he said. "Foreign Exchange" is being produced by Azimuth Media in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting. 'Hie Oregon company is trying to sell the show to PBS' 170 member stations; it wasn't clear Wednesday how many had decided to run it or when they would air it. Each of the weekly half-hour programs will touch on several topics, Zakaria said. He's putting together an informal network of correspondents across^the world to report for the show. 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