Day 24. Montana novelist Kevin Canty agreed to be our poster-author for last-minute shopping, and boy are we glad we asked. We’ll let him tell about his shopping technique, with links to his favorite stores, Fact & Fiction and Shakespeare & Co in Missoula: Well, it’s happened again: first week of December, the postal person drops …
Montana novelist Kevin Canty recently delivered the graduation speech for the English Department at the University of Montana. The graduating class included his son (go Turner!). Canty gave us a copy of the speech to reprint here. OK, so I’ve never been asked to give a speech before and you’re about to find out why. …
As is the custom just about everywhere in Book Universe right now, the reviewers at The New Yorker have listed their favorite books of 2010. Among them is the novel Everything by Montanan Kevin Canty, which appears with this pleasing summation: “One year’s turmoil for five appealingly aimless Montanans.” Those New Yorker people, so good at …
