Rick Bass and David James Duncan | The Heart of the Monster
What riles a pair of Montana writers into crafting a “rapid response book” in just four months? The efforts of ExxonMobil and other oil giants to establish the windy highways that snake from Lewistown, up the Clearwater and Lochsa rivers to Missoula, and then east, along the Blackfoot River, crossing two formidable mountain passes en route, as a “High and Wide corridor.” Read more
Doug Peacock headlines Whitefish Review release party
Author Doug Peacock headlines a reading and discussion for the launch of Whitefish Review issue 9, 7-11 p.m. June 10 under the waterfront tent pavilion at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake. Peacock is joined by poet Lois Red Elk, author Mary Clearman Blew and young writer Callie Ann Atkinson in a reading and discussion that focuses on "A Sense of Place." Read more
Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough | Guide to Rocky Mountain Vegetable Gardening
Gardeners living in the Rocky Mountain region who long to raise a lush vegetable patch can find remedies to almost any obstacle they might face in their horticultural pursuits in this authoritative book. Read more
Craig Lancaster | The Summer Son
The tensions that often exist between fathers and sons are a timeless topic, ripe for many stories. Billings author Craig Lancaster explores that divide in his deeply emotional second novel. Mitch Quillen’s middle-class life is unraveling – his marriage is troubled and he’s bored with his job when an unexpected call from his estranged father sets him on a course of discovery. Read more
Kevin Canty | Everything
“My novels have all come to me, all but one, as short stories that want to grow up,” said Kevin Canty in Montana Public Radio’s program, “The Write Question.” The Missoula author’s new novel, Everything, feels grown up. Its three central characters – RL, his 19-year-old daughter Layla, and their friend June – each find a ragged edge in their lives as they navigate love, loss, the persistent weight of grief. Read more • (1) Comments
T.L. Hines | The Falling Away
Crow Indian and Iraq War veteran Dylan Runs Ahead has just killed two Canadians during a foiled drug drop. His friend and accomplice was shot in the shoulder, and a deranged woman seems to be stalking them. His sister, who disappeared when they were teenagers, still talks to him. So when he’s told that he’s “chosen,” Runs Ahead is understandably perplexed. Read more
Nancy Brook | Cycling, Wine, and Men, A Midlife Tour de France
Nancy Brook clearly isn’t afraid of challenges. After a string of break-ups (seven in seven years), the single mom and bank vice-president packs her wounded heart, a bicycle, a backpack and two suitcases to France for a 700-mile cycling tour, parts of which traces the Tour de France route. Read more