“Put a cowboy hat on a microphone and you have Gerald Haslam, whose short stories have recorded the landscapes, the working-class customers and, above all, the voices of Bakersfield area for two decades now. Okies, Indians, blacks and Latinos; ranchers, roughnecks and a few who got education but could never get the dust and oil and tule fog out of their blood—Haslam lets them all sound off.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Haslam’s recent collection of short stories, That Constant Coyote, represents one of the most powerful literary ensembles I’ve encountered in quite some time.” —Geoffrey Dunn, Santa Cruz Magazine