High Country News

Crossing hearts on Colorado's plains

Laura Pritchett’s first novel, Sky Bridge, perfectly captures the speech and rhythms of everyday life in the hardscrabble ranchland of the eastern Colorado plains

by Malcolm McCollum, Nov 14, 2005
The Western Lit Blues

A Western writer is tired of being typecast as a Western writer.

by Laura Pritchett, Sep 26, 2010
New books from friends of High Country News

Jeff Chen visits; new books from Florence Williams, Laura Pritchett, Alan Kesselheim and Fred Anderson; Jamie Williams is new president of The Wilderness Society; corrections.

by Jodi Peterson, Apr 15, 2012
My short tenure with a blind pigeon

Laura Pritchett reluctantly – and guiltily – agrees to take care of a blind pigeon for her mother.

by Laura Pritchett, Jan 21, 2008
A Western primer

Western writers offer a generous and inspired list of recommended reading for the president-elect, including a diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction.

by Jeff Lee, Laura Pritchett, Teresa Jordan, Stephen Trimble, William Debuys, Dan Flores, Linda Hasselstrom, Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Debra Utacia Krol, Aaron Abeyta , Sep 12, 2008
Little doses of danger

A formerly fearless outdoorswoman becomes unexpectedly wary once she becomes the mother of two children.

by Laura Pritchett, May 11, 2010
The Universe on Blacktop

A Colorado family finds satisfaction -- and cash -- in scavenging metal for recycling.

by Laura Pritchett , Mar 17, 2009
Safe out there

To an aging, mentally ill woman named Jade, the beautiful Colorado day is filled with sinister, frightening demons, and even a well-meaning neighbor can do nothing to drive them away.

by Laura Pritchett, Apr 30, 2007
National visit-your-parents-in-Paonia week?

Visitors come to Paonia; new books from HCN authors.

by Jodi Peterson, Aug 10, 2009
Resurrecting J. Thomas

The crumbling remains of a man named J. Thomas have a story to tell about life and death in the northern Colorado in the 1870s

by Laura Pritchett, Mar 20, 2006