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Balefire

Dec

13

2019

Seeking First to Understand: “Eden Mine,”
a fierce new novel from S.M. Hulse

S.M. Hulse has carved out a unique place in the psyche of the American West.  In her timely and powerful novels she reveals what glimmers beneath the surface of our collective ills: an uncommon but vital desire to understand chaos, to unite with each other when possible, and to face trauma with grace, quiet confidence, …

Mar

15

2019

1

remark

Sharma Shields photographed by Rajah Bose

A Better World: An Interview with Critically-Acclaimed WA Author Sharma Shields

From my first encounter with Sharma Shields’ work, I was awed by her gifts with character, plot, mythology, and the most meaningful expressions of the human condition. From her Autumn House Award winning collection of stories, Favorite Monster, to the psychological devastation of the inner life revealed in The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, and now to …

Nov

30

2018

Alyson Hagy

Acts of Healing: A conversation with Alyson Hagy and her novel Scribe

SCRIBE by Alyson Hagy IndieNext #1 Pick for November Belletrist Book of the Month for October Finalist for the Southern Book Prize Alyson Hagy is a contemporary master novelist. I’m not talking about her adept and fierce attention to words or the long excellence which has won her many awards—a Pushcart Prize, the Nelson Algren …

Nov

8

2016

Chris Dombrowski

Chris Dombrowski
and the Waterways of the World

Chris Dombrowski has traveled many of the most elegant, hidden, rugged waterways of Montana. He’s a husband, father, poet and fishing guide, and he’s one of the most generous men I know. If you have the grace of spending time with him, your mind and heart will be renewed, you’ll laugh a great deal, and …

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