A Million Acres: Montana Writers Reflect on Land and Open Space is a celebration of Montanan Writers and the landscapes they love. This is a stunning book featuring twenty powerful pieces of writing about Montana’s land and open spaces by the state’s finest contemporary writers. A Million Acres also features twenty-eight spectacular color landscape photographs. …
I have been a book professional since 1974. In the course of my career, I have met many authors. Some have become friends. Bharti Kirchner is one. I try not to let friendship get in the way of honest reviews. Ms Kirchner has written several books in the fields of cooking and fiction. Season of Sacrifice is the first …
from shondaland.com The author and poet talks writing process, the nerve of second books, and the “perfect” location for stories of survival. In her second novel, “The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore,” author Kim Fu weaves the story of five girls who share a formative trauma at summer camp, then go on to grow up …
When I met Meagan Macvie, during the first minutes of our three-year MFA program, she was buried in a book, occasionally peeking up through her glasses to observe us all getting to know each other. An introverted bookworm, I thought, and I was right about the bookworm part. Just check out her answer below when …
Author Shann Ray of Spokane, WA interviewed Butte, MT author David Abrams about Abrams’ second novel, Brave Deeds. Shann Ray: Your work is powerful, visceral, and moves readers to consider the heart of flawed characters. In so doing we consider our own flaws, and it makes us more humble if we open that door. What’s the …
This was a book that I definitely judged by its title when I ordered it. A true tale about skydiving beavers??!! Really. And yes, REALLY! This true tale took place in McCall, Idaho just after WWII. Up until then, before people “discovered” the natural beauty around McCall and populated it, it was an area home …
Idaho is the best novel I have read in years. It follows more than fifty years in the lives of Jenny, who performs a terrible act early in the book, and the family she leaves behind. The prose is truly insightful, with metaphors that leap off of the page– memory scatters like “dozens of blackbirds, …
I am a big fan of author Stephen Hunter and his sniper/hero Bob Lee Swagger. I have now read the first four books in the Bob Lee series plus the World War II stand-alone, Master Sniper. They are all page turners for sure. I started reading these books with book four– The 47th Samurai — because of …
by Brian Doyle I have lived in Oregon for a quarter of a century. Ever since I arrived here I have been absorbed in the stories and history and literature of Oregon, and in its finest writers, especially the ones most interested in what the great Oregon writer Robin Cody calls Oregonness – writers like …
A School for the People: A Photographic History of Oregon State University by Lawrence Landis A School for the People tells the story of OSU‘s nearly 150 years as a land grant institution through more than 500 photographs, maps, documents, and extensive captions. A capsule history includes many of the iconic photographs associated with the university. Other …
