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Ivan Doig

Mar

26

2018

Points North

Points North: Stories by Howard Frank Mosher

Points North is a collection of stories completed by Howard Frank Mosher shortly before he passed away in January 2017 at the age of 74. While the Army Corp of Engineers, an itinerant preacher, local museum trustees, and the courts try to foil the fly-fishing, baseball playing, classics reading and wilderness loving residents of Kingdom …

Nov

3

2015

Shann Ray

The American Fiction of Shann Ray

Shann Ray Ferch may just be the most peaceful man I’ve ever met. I don’t know the Dali Lama and I totally missed seeing the Pope during his USA Tour 2015, but Shann Ray will serve as a satisfactory, calm-centered substitute for those two gentlemen. Shann the writer is every bit as open-hearted and gracious …

Aug

18

2015

Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig

Last Bus to Wisdom
by Ivan Doig

“Ivan Doig’s last book, finished before his April 9, 2015 death, is a story that is destined to live through its readers forever. I savored Donal/ Red Chief/ Scotty’s tales of life and adventure, high jinks and mischief, cowboys and hoboes, love and family. This is one of my top three fiction favorites of 2015… Loved it.” …

Aug

18

2015

Ivan Doig, as drawn by Brad Craft

Celebrating Ivan Doig Day

I KNEW IVAN DOIG AS A WRITER before I knew him as a friend, and even though by the end I knew the friend as well as I have known anyone, the writer never ceased to loom over me. It was as if Twain or Cather had strolled off the page and shown up for …

Jul

23

2015

Ivan Doig

Ivan Doig Day Coming August 18

To honor the late beloved author Ivan Doig, Riverhead Books and independent bookstores around the Northwest are planning Ivan Doig Day celebrations to coincide with the publication of his upcoming novel Last Bus to Wisdom. The book is due out on August 18 and so far, according to Riverhead publicist Glory Plata, nine stores are …

Jun

18

2015

Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig

A Tribute to Ivan Doig
Tuesday August 18th, 7 PM
Parkplace Books

  From Parkplace Books in Kirkland, WA: Join Parkplace Books and fellow author/friends Tony Angell,  David B. Williams, and Mary Ann Gwinn in a tribute evening to one of our most creative authors, gifted storyteller and a  remarkably down-to-earth man…with word and song and the release of his last book, Last Bus to Wisdom. Per Ivan, …

Apr

10

2015

4

remarks

In Memoriam: Ivan Doig (1939- 2015)

“There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.” –Ivan Doig, This House of Sky Ivan Doig, beloved author, passed away April 9, 2015. His loss is felt deeply throughout the literary community and beyond. We collect some memories here. Our thoughts and condolences go …

Sep

1

2014

Work Song by Ivan Doig

Labor Day Reading

Happy Labor Day! We can’t think of any book more appropriate for the holiday than Work Song by Ivan Doig. It features beloved character Morrie Morgan (first introduced in The Whistling Season)  and precedes Doig’s latest book, Sweet Thunder. But most relevantly for this post, it’s a story about miners and and unions in Butte, …

Nov

18

2013

David Laskin

The Voice in My Head: Ivan Doig as Neighbor, Friend,
and Mentor

Ivan Doig lives and writes about a mile and a half from where I live and write – but there are times, and now is one of them, when it feels like he has taken up residence in my home office.  I swear he’s standing right behind me, shaking his head and muttering unprintable things …

Oct

7

2013

Sweet Thunder

Sweet Thunder by Ivan Doig

Ivan Doig is a wordsmith of the first rank. I just finished reading his latest tome, Sweet Thunder, his fourteenth book. Many if not all are set in Montana during contemporary and historical time periods. Sweet Thunder features Morrie Morgan (Llewellyn) who had previous appearances in The Whistling Season. I have not read that book but now I think I …

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