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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
This year's Montana Festival of the Book, which begins Thursday, has an incredible lineup scheduled. The October 23 reading with humorist David Sedaris is sold out, but there's so much else going on that nobody who missed out on tickets for that event should go home with an empty brain. On Thursday, October 22, four renowned crime novelists will participate in the panel discussion The Last Good Kiss:...
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NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
I have a lot of good news to report this week about regional writers: • Last week Pen Center USA announced that Moscow, Idaho's Kim Barnes has won their award for Fiction for her novel A Country Called Home. (A complete list of winners is here.) Conveniently for those who may have missed this absorbing, lyrical novel, the paperback edition just hit bookstores last week. Last year I spoke to Barnes...
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Lessons in Curating. Lessons in Culture. (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Sorry, we're late! Here are some photos from July 8th, Confession and Jealousy night. The show included readings by Nick Laird(and the cutest puppy in the world, Maud), Binnie Kirshenbaum (who elected to take the very risky risk of not risking at all) and Kevin Canty (gnidaer sdrawkcab). Elvis Perkins also knocked our collective socks off. Amanda started the show off with a few hilarious confessions...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Where the Money Went by Kevin Canty Nan A. Talese, 191 pages, $25 The title story of Missoula writer Kevin Canty's new collection Where the Money Went sets the tone and theme for the book, with its wry, sad-funny accounting of a busted-up marriage. "When the thing was over, Braxton sat down at the kitchen table of his apartment and tried to figure out what they had done with the money," it...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
Billings-based writer and teacher Russell Rowland wrote in recently about an anthology he and Lynn Stegner are putting together. The book "will explore what it means to each of these writers to have lived or grown up in the West, as well as how they see the identity of the West changing over time." The University of Texas Press will publish it this spring. Rowland reports the tentative title...
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NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
I came across a funny passage in "Real Romance," Lauren Collins' profile of Nora Roberts for the June 22 issue of The New Yorker: "She never makes an outline, and she does most of her research on Google. Before she wrote 'Montana Sky,' her editor suggested that she go to Montana. 'Why would I want to go to Montana?' Roberts said." Perhaps it's for the best--Montana might not have...
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
... Ron Slate on Where The Money Went, short stories by Kevin Canty .
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