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October 15, 2012
Issue Summary: Our annual Books and Essays issue features essays about finding our place in the West by Craig Childs, Hannah Nordhaus and Sarah Gilman, author profiles, and many reviews of new books.
Feature
The author traces the paths of peoples that have wandered the earth for centuries, from Alaska to the Southwest.
The author considers family lore and legends, including a ghost story about her great-grandmother in New Mexico.
The Gilman clan didn't go on normal vacations; their fossil-addicted parents trundled them across the West looking for the shells of long-extinct sea creatures.
Current
Western authors and HCN staffers share their most-loved writing about the region.
New Western fiction and nonfiction for fall 2012.
A number of literary journals offer different perspectives on the West.
Editor's Note
These days, most Westerners aren't born. We're made.
Uncommon Westerners
The author of She Had Some Horses and In Mad Love and War discusses her new memoir, Crazy Brave.
The Portland, Ore., based writer talks about the role of landscape in her writing and her debut novel, The Orchardist.
The author asks questions about life in the desert West -- who belongs there, and what belongs to whom.
The Native American author writes fresh but familiar stories.
New authors Tupelo Hassman, Ben Rogers, and Claire Vaye Watkins discuss how Nevada inspired their fiction and the themes of their work.
Essays
It took going east -- to Maine -- for the author to understand the West.
Wandering in the underappreciated sagebrush sea.
I'm a Westerner by birth, but family and community matter more than location.
Dear Friends
High Country News gets visitors from all around, searching for homes and going on adventures.
Book Reviews
Two optimistic new books discuss aging water infrastructure in the West.
T.C. Boyle's new novel focuses on the lives of two California families living on San Miguel island.
Lance Weller's debut novel traces the path of a Civil War veteran in the Pacific Northwest.
C. Joseph Greaves bases his novel on a long-ago murder in Utah.
Award-winning adventure writer Peter Heller sets his debut novel in apocalypse-stricken Colorado.
Colorado resident Barbara K. Richardson crafts a novel about a pioneer girl finding her own salvation in Mormon Utah.
Letters
- Mark York on Tribes win one fight, lose another in pipeline protest
- Greg Arnold on New allegations of sexual harassment in Yosemite, Yellowstone
- Sophia Bogner on Tribes win one fight, lose another in pipeline protest
- Carolyn Poissant on Top 10 reasons not to move to Bozeman
- G M Ferguson on An electric-power giant is poised to fail
