I loved this set of a dozen stories brought to life in Morgan Talty’s words. Each story is demonstrative of life as a Penobscot, in a Native community in Maine. One of my favorites is about a boy who opens a Pandora’s box kind of jar and lets out a curse that ruins his family. …
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. …
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 …
“An impeccable history of salmon politics beautifully researched and told with humor, despair, and, always, heart and force and clarity. A must-read.” —Rick Bass, author of Why I Came West “Hawley writes about the Columbia River Basin from every angle, talking to those whom other writers can’t imagine or muster the courage to address. His …
We asked Rick Bass and David James Duncan to tell us about their new collaboration, The Heart of the Monster, a half fiction/half non-fiction advocacy book whose proceeds go to All Against the Haul. Bass and Duncan have joined All Against the Haul in protesting the construction of a permanent industrial corridor along rural roads in …
David James Duncan and Rick Bass, two Montana authors who are practically royalty for their contributions to the Northwest canon, have teamed up with photographer Frederic Ohringer to publish an advocacy book in the mold of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. The Heart of the Monster: Why the Pacific Northwest …
“The Brown Trio sang with a purity and longing that put them in the spotlight. As Nashville was changing the face of music, the Browns shared the stage with Elvis and Jerry Lee—and then it was over. Take your seat as Elvis shakes those hips, Jerry Lee bays at the moon, and Chet makes that …
“When Elvis Presley was a scrawny teenager with dreams of becoming a gospel singer, he spent two years on tour with the Browns, a trio of siblings whose gorgeous harmonies would result in a series of country hits during the 1950s, culminating in The Three Bells, which topped the country and pop charts in 1959, …
