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Writers on the Range
A writer’s mother -- like an increasing number of Westerners -- is pretty determined that when her time comes, she wants to go down in flames, via cremation.
by Marian Lyman Kirst,
May 18, 2012
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Dear Friends
HCN online editor Stephanie Paige Ogburn and managing editor Jodi Peterson attend digital media workshops; Danielle Venton gets public radio job; Denver Nicks writes a book; visitors; correction.
by Sarah Gilman,
May 14, 2012
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Book Reviews
In Rez Life, novelist David Treuer takes a nonfiction look at his own life as an Ojibwe Indian on the reservation.
by Lee E. Cart,
May 14, 2012
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Letters
A sampling of what you had to say
by Cally Carswell,
May 14, 2012
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Writers on the Range
The West's gay teenagers are too often ignored -- abandoned by their
families to live on the streets or in overcrowded homeless shelters.
by Tim Lydon,
May 11, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Remembering Micah True – known as “Caballo Blanco,” or the white horse – a gifted athlete who devoted his life to helping the Tarahumara, a remote tribe of long-distance runners in Mexico’s Copper Canyon.
by Hal Walter,
May 04, 2012
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Essays
When a writer buys a rowing machine, her 3-year-old daughter's enthusiasm turns exercise into an adventure as they imagine rowing to reach the island of Yap in Micronesia.
by Michelle Nijhuis,
May 04, 2012
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Current
The National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Calif., is honoring the Nobel Prize-winning author by helping at-risk youth in the community he wrote about.
by Taylor Wiles,
May 02, 2012
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Multimedia
Michael Branch muses on Mary Austin, desert loners, and why the inhabitants in his arid part of western Nevada choose to limit their interactions to a few choice syllables. Rants from the Hill are Michael Branch's monthly musings on life in rural Nevada.
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn,
May 01, 2012
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Letters
by Erick Miller,
Apr 30, 2012
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Dear Friends
Spring brings visitors, some with new books; Katie Lee publishes an epic poem at the age of 92; writer Eric Wagner welcomes a daughter; corrections.
by Sarah Gilman,
Apr 30, 2012
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Book Reviews
In Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains, Keith Heyer Meldahl brings the geography of the West to vivid life.
by Claire Peaslee,
Apr 30, 2012
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Letters
by Kay Matthews ,
Apr 30, 2012
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Writers on the Range
With the help of his wife, Connie, and a bunch of determined fellow ranchers, the late Doc Hatfield helped change the face of public-lands ranching in the West.
by Ed Marston,
Apr 27, 2012
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Current
After Tucson, Ariz., scrapped its acclaimed but controversial Mexican American Studies program, novelist Tony Diaz decided to fight back.
by Neil LaRubbio,
Apr 20, 2012
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