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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
In this week's Roundup, I'll be taking a look at a few of the many literary magazines in our region. Whitefish Review is a journal based in Whitefish, Montana, that is five issues and two years into what will hopefully be a long and fruitful run. Recently Whitefish Review gained nonprofit status from the IRS, which will allow them to seek grants and accept donations. In a press release, founding editor...
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NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Economic conditions and their implications for the book industry continue to be dire, and yet I have mostly good news to report this week. • First, several prestigious literary magazines across the nation are facing budget cuts or conversion to online-only publication, including the New England Review, TriQuarterly, and The Southern Review, but in Boise, according to Idaho Review editor Mitch...
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NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri Edited by James Thomas and D. Seth Horton, foreword by Rick Bass University of Texas Press, 268 pages, $19.95 Best of the West 2009 is a welcome revival of anthology series that ran from 1988 through 1992, collecting outstanding stories set in "the Wide Side of the Missouri" that previously appeared in literary journals....
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Maggie Reads (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A gain, I am reminded of the diverse talent Mississippi has to offer after flipping through the photographs of Gloria Norris' new book "Highway 51: Mississippi Hill Country." The coffee-table-size book is a collection of her camera work that is testament to all the singers and writers who made their homes along the mainline between Jackson and Memphis. She spreads a wide net at times. The...
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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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Dallas Observer | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Author Rick Bass ' works are so intellectual that their overriding theme is a homonym. Nature, as in "the nature of the human heart" and environmental nature. The point where nature and nature intersect is where Bass' stories lie. Blending detailed accounts of his natural surroundings with ric...
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BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
I realize I am limiting my audience this week with this post, but I just couldn’t resist sharing this list of books about dogs I found a few months ago courtesy of Reader’s Advisory… I starred (**) the titles I’ve read! photo credit: zenera William H. Armstrong – Sounder ** Rick Bass – Colter: The True Story [...] Another great post from: BOOK CLUB CLASSICS! Thanks...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
The winners of this year's Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Regional Book Awards were announced last week: • Adult Fiction: Another Man's Moccasins: A Walt Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson (Penguin) • Adult Nonfiction: American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella (Random House) • The Arts: Colorado's Wild Horses by Claude Steelman (Wildshots,...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
White House Press Secretary Bill Burton announced a list of five books that President Obama is bringing on his vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Among them is Kent Haruf's Plainsong. Now, during last year's Democratic National Convention in Denver, Jeff Lee of the Rocky Mountain Land Library asked a bunch of notable Western writers and...me to contribute a reading list for the President-Elect: A Western...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Acclaimed writer Rick Bass, author of The Wild Marsh and Why I Came Westa 2008 finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiographyhas published an interesting essay about the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act proposed by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. The essay in Yale Environment360, a publication of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, gives Bass's perspective as a longtime...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
A fiction writer and essayist who has produced more than 20 books, Rick Bass lives with his wife and two daughters in the Yaak Valley, one of the most remote and biologically rich regions in the United States. Through the window of an old cabin that he has...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs will hold its annual conference in Denver next year, April 7 thorough 10. Michael Chabon will give the keynote address, and some well-known Western writers (as well as some not-so-Western ones) will be there. Rick Bass, Joy Harjo, Robert Hass, George Saunders, Danzy Senna, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gary Snyder, Terry Tempest Williams, David Wroblewski, and...
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NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
This week fans of short stories with Western settings are in luck. The New Yorker published a story by a young New Mexico writer, Kirstin Valdez Quade, in its July 27 issue, and the annual summer fiction issue of the Atlantic Monthly is out now. The Atlantic has always featured plenty of fiction by Western writers, and this issue is no exception, with stories by Montana's Rick Bass, Ouray, Colo.-based...
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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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