Results for keyword: writers
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Life as a fire lookout
It's a long way from Lower Manhattan to a remote fire lookout's perch in New Mexico.
by Philip Connors, Oct 20, 2011 -
The sky is a crowded attic
Novelist Andrew Sean Greer talks about how the West’s vast landscapes transformed his life and his fiction.
by Jeremy N. Smith, Sep 15, 2009 -
The dictionary reader
What kind of person spends the whole summer stuck inside a cabin reading the dictionary?
by Ana Maria Spagna, Aug 20, 2009 -
A life of words and wilderness
Rick Bass’ memoir, Why I Came West, describes how his 20-year struggle to save Montana’s Yaak Valley held him hostage, preventing him from concentrating on writing the short fiction that he loves.
by Eric Peterson, Apr 14, 2008 -
Mystery in Montana
Deirdre McNamer’s new novel, Red Rover, beautifully captures the unromantic realism of Montana’s small towns.
by Bruce Barcott, Oct 29, 2007 -
No frigate like a book
This special issue focuses on books and essays that help us understand the complex, chaotic West.
by Jodi Peterson, Oct 29, 2007 -
John Nichols and his 19th miracle
Writer John Nichols is still fighting the good fight in Taos, N.M.
by Erin Halcomb, Jun 11, 2007 -
Longing for a buried past
Rick Bass’ new short story collection, The Lives of Rocks, proves that his fierce environmental activism has not diminished the intensity of his storytelling genius
by Emma Brown, May 28, 2007 -
Dear friends
Visitors; Las Vegas writer and historian Hal Rothman dies; farewell to Dolores LaChapelle and Ed LaChapelle
by Jodi Peterson and Jonathan Thompson, Mar 19, 2007 -
A geography of the imagination
In Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, 45 diverse writers define unusual geographical terms used across the country.
by Eliza Murphy, Mar 05, 2007






