BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
photo credit: Mike Willis Inspired by our recent weekend (near) Iowa, I decided to choose this bountiful state as my subject this week. Wallace Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa — but if you’re wondering why you associate him so strongly with the West… it could be because he grew up in Great Falls, [...]
The Post-Pessimist Association (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
#27 -- "Marking the Sparrow's Fall" by Wallace Stegner As soon as I started reading this, I started loudly complaining that no one had ever tipped me off to Stegner's writing before, since it's right up my street. Which was a lie, of course -- "Angle of Repose" is pretty famous, and my friend Pete recommended Stegner to me a few years ago. I think I just concluded that it was probably boring. But within...
Silicon Valley Moms Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
“Too happy to be comfortable.” This is perhaps one of the loveliest phrases I’ve heard in connection with motherhood. I’m reading Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer-prize winning writer, environmentalist and long-time Los Altos resident (please read his work,...
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Urban and wild define the New West — fast-growing cities nestled in Wallace Stegner’s “geography of hope.” The art, the history and the food of New Mexico have been commoditized, for obvious reasons. But many of its special places are intact, and owned by every American because of the Wilderness Act, which dates to the [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Mr. Hall, the author of the novels “Warlock” and “The Downhill Racers” and a literary heir to fellow California writers like Wallace Stegner.
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
April 20, 2008 Good morning to all the Saloners. I hope you are all curled up reading a good book. I’ve had a wonderful weekend of reading and cooking…and despite the cooler weather, I’ve enjoyed some porch time in the sun here: (Click to Enlarge photo) A couple of weekends ago, I painted that little wicker table [...]
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill into their future until they [...]
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Wallace Stegner's passing made the front pages of papers on the coasts, the inner or back pages of papers in the Western states he had long fought to describe and protect. Fifteen years later, where readers of good books and the land still exist, he is remembered. For his work and passion, those readers should always be grateful.
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
B orn today: Samuel Beckett, playwright, novelist, Dublin, 1906; Eudora Welty, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Jackson, Miss., 1909; John Gerard Braine, novelist, Yorkshire, England, 1922; Seamus Heaney, poet, Mossbawn, C. Derry, N. Ireland, 1939. Died: Thomas Jefferson, statesman, author, Shadwell, Va., 1743; Wallace Stegner, novelist, Santa Fe, N.M., 1993. Quote for the Day: "We are all born...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
Brigham Young called it "Deseret." To writer Wallace Stegner it was "the Mormon Empire," a vast swath of Great Basin territory from Mesa, Ariz.
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
“There is no 92nd Street Y in the American West.” —Philip L. Fradkin, author of a new biography Wallace Stegner and the American West , at a conference celebrating Stegner’s stature as one of the great American writers (often called “The Dean of Western Writers” ) who was at times overlooked by the East Coast literary world. Source: New York Times . Wallace Stegner (pictured) read at the 92nd Street...
KR Blog (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Wallace Stegner has been getting a lot of attention recently. About two weeks ago in Point Reyes, CA a Wallace Stegner conference entitled “The Geography of Hope” was held, in conjunction with what would have been the author’s 99th birthday (he died in 1993). It featured such environmentally-minded writers as Barry Lopez, Robert Hass and [...]
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
This morning I gazed at my stack of books I have yet to read this month…and realized, yet again, I have overextended myself. Lately, I have been requesting (and receiving) quite a few Advance Reader’s Editions. These are the books I really need to read first; and yet there are so many other great books [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
A weekend conference in California dedicated to Wallace Stegner was partly a discussion of the author’s works and partly a homage to Stegner by writers he influenced.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
A remarkable new biography offers a complex portrait of Wallace Stegner, the dean of writers on the American West. Biographer Philip L. Fradkin discusses his book Tuesday in Seattle.
