http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.3/bucking-the-stereotypes-a-review-of-west-of-98 The anthology West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West assembles the thoughts of 67 Western writers. No publisher Charles Finn West of 98 Lynn Stegner anthologies nonfiction Russell Rowland contemporary Western writers essays 2012-02-14T22:46:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.21/california-chronicles-a-review-of-new-california-writing-2011 Editor Gayle Wattawa has assembled an anthology of essays in New California Writing: 2011 that should intrigue even people outside the Golden State. No publisher Tara Rae Miner California ecology California history Michael Chabon California public schools Gayle Wattawa Mike Davis D.J. Waldie Jennifer Egan anthologies Great Recession Gray Brechin nonfiction Fred Setterber California budget crisis essays Rebecca Solnit California economy California environmental issues New California Writing: 2011 2011-12-12T15:25:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.21/a-celebration-of-cascadia-a-review-of-open-spaces-voices-from-the-northwest Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest doesn't quite work as an anthology, but it features some intimate and thoughtful writing about the Pacific Northwest. No publisher Gretchen Legler Denis Hayes Richard P. Benner Penny Harrison John Daniel Norman Maclean dams quarterlies essay collections Bruce Babbitt Northwestern ecosystem anthologies Northwestern culture Open Spaces magazine Sandra Dorr nonfiction Charles Wilkinson Portland Seattle Pacific Northwest Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest Lee C. Neff 2011-12-12T15:25:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16499 Steven Radosevich writes simple, painful, personal essays about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and Renewal. No publisher Annie Dawid Communities in Transition Steven Radosevich Good Wood essays hunters fishermen grape growers anthologies Pacific Northwest Siletz Indians Tieton Washington memoirs family history timber logging clear-cutting forests Coast Range Charlie Wakenshaw teachers Oregon 2011-11-30T16:47:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16498 In the anthology There’s This River, Christa Sadler gathers the stories of rambunctious river rafters on the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River No publisher Renee Guillory Parks and Monuments Tourism and Recreation Rivers Christa Sadler There’s This River Colorado River Grand Canyon river rats river rafting tour guides river-runners raft trips Scott Thybony Vince Welch Rebecca Lawton anthologies essays personal history adventure stories recreation tourists 2011-11-30T16:41:06Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16434 In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes engagingly about working the land on a small farm in California’s Central Valley No publisher Laura Paskus Communities Western Culture Crops Blithe Tomato Mike Madison essays anthologies small farmers farmers markets California gophers tractors lilacs Central Valley Travis Air Force Base native grasses small towns communities rural life autobiography personal experience memoi 2011-11-21T22:33:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16286 In Preserving Western History, editor Andrew Gulliford has put together "the first college reader to address public history in the American West." No publisher Dave Phillips Preserving Western History Andrew Gulliford anthologies readers college textbooks Western history Sacajewea Sally McBeth Thomas Patin scenery national parks tourism education Sand Creek Massacre Santa Fe Fiesta Route 66 travel vacations 2011-11-12T01:02:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16922 The powerful short stories in Thomas McGuane’s Gallatin Canyon prove him to be the New West’s answer to Flannery O’Connor. No publisher Annie Dawid anthologies friendship suicide recovery Cuba difficult lives West loneliness fiction Communities in transition Ernest Hemingway alcoholics Thomas McGuane New book reviews Flannery O’Connor Key West short stories redemption 2011-09-01T19:41:51Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15594 In Rio Grande, editor Jan Reid has assembled a marvelous collection of essays and photos about the Southwest’s Great River No publisher Laura Paskus Rivers Rio Grande anthologies Jan Reid photographers John Reed Charles Bowden Gloria Anzaldua Cecilia Balli Paul Horgan Latino culture American Southwest 2011-03-31T22:30:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.20/tribute-to-a-prickly-icon Both fans and critics contemplate the life and legacy of Edward Abbey in a special issue of the Western literary and arts journal Matter. No publisher Michael Engelhard Dylan Quint Ana Maria Spagna Charles Bowden Jim Stiles Doug Peacock interviews Matter Journal 13 literary journals fiction anthologies Jack Loeffler Katie Lee Edward Abbey 2010-11-16T23:59:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16559 In Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, David Petersen assembles some of the correspondence of Western writer Edward Abbey into an eminently readable but ultimately unenlightening collection. No publisher Brian Kevin Human beings and nature correspondence life letters letters to the editor journal entries anthologies book reviews writers Postcards from Ed biography authors Confessions of a Barbarian Ed Abbey memoir David Peterson Western 2010-10-26T22:38:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/337/16767 In Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes, the late historian Alvin Josephy Jr. has assembled essays by nine Indian writers who examine the Corps of Discovery from the other side of the cultural looking glass No publisher Ed Marston Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes Thomas Undaun Corps of Discovery Bernard DeVoto Native Americans Alvin Josephy Jr. Bill Yellowtail Vine DeLoria anthologies Roberta Tamastsikt writers Jefferson historians Louisiana Territory Native American Stephen Ambrose 2010-09-02T22:39:45Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/353/17214 In Best Stories of the American West, Volume I, series editor Marc Jaffe gathers 20 very different stories by 20 very different writers. No publisher Shawn Dean short William Kittredge Marc Jaffe fiction anthologies Sherman Alexie stories Best Stories of the American West Volume I 2010-08-27T22:34:31Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/353/17213 In Courage for the Earth, editor Peter Matthiessen gathers 14 essays honoring the life and work of Rachel Carson. No publisher Marilyn Stone Peter Matthiessen Terry Tempest Williams Robert Michael Pyle Freeman House anthologies scientists Rachel Carson essays 2010-08-27T22:24:08Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/357/17313 The Western novel is not entirely dead; it has simply changed a great deal since the glory days of Zane Grey. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis anthologies Russell Davis Martin H. Greenberg Westerns Lost Trails Steve On the Wrong Track Holmes on the Range Western short stories Louis L’Amour genre fiction Hockensmith 2010-08-11T22:27:16Z News Article