OK, in my opinion, he needs the next PNBA award. I so loved Pete’s latest experience tending salmon eggs in the backcountry. Pete is never better than in his thoughtful accounting of years spent outdoors. With humor and grace– this is a another glimpse into heart that’s as big as his mustache. I’ve always counted …
Dear Bookstore Friends and Family, Ten years ago, we opened Rediscovered Books with great expectations, incredible naïveté and hearts full of hope. Today the naïveté has morphed into idealism, but the great expectations and hope have remained the same. We want to take you through part of our journey over the last ten years. As …
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 …
“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 …
I sit back and read the announcement’s first paragraph, that whole thing about If Not for This being “crowned.” I reread that, all royalty. But then I get to the killer line, the Jurassic-scale fly in the ointment; “…we would like each winner to choose his or her favorite PNBA member bookstore…” Seriously? One? I …
Congratulations to Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Washington author of Urban Bestiary, and Rick Bass, Montana author of All the Land to Hold Us, whose books have been selected as nonfiction and fiction finalists for the 2014 Orion Book Award. Each spring, the Orion Book Award is presented to books that deepen the reader’s connection to the …
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 …
