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  • David Mas Masmuto Pays the Price for Perfect Peaches

    Wisdom of the Last Farmer by David Mas Masmuto Simon & Schuster, 238 pages, $25 David Mas Masmuto's Wisdom of the Last Farmer will make you want to go out and pay a farmer more than the asking price for his produce at a market.  Masmuto grows organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes on [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 9:01am EDT

  • David Mas Masumoto Pays the Price for Perfect Peaches

    Wisdom of the Last Farmer by David Mas Masumoto Simon & Schuster, 238 pages, $25 David Mas Masumoto's Wisdom of the Last Farmer will make you want to go out and pay a farmer more than the asking price for his produce at a market.  Masumoto grows organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes on [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 9:01am EDT

  • Printed Page Bookshop Opens in Denver and Regional Writers Get Around

    One of my fellow ex-Rocky Mountain News book reviewers, Dan Danbom, recently wrote in an email, "Now, instead of reviewing books, I've decided that a fast route to famine is to try to sell them." Along with his business partner, Nancy Stevens, this week the intrepid Danbom opened a new' [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • An interview with Christopher Cokinos, Writer, Star-Seeker, and Author of "The Fallen Sky"

    Reading Christopher Cokinos's new book, The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars (Tarcher/Penguin, 528 pages, $27.95), is like taking an adventurous romp into the realm of meteorites and their hunters. Passion, science, dreams, and desire are all brought together in this book, which makes it an exciting study [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • July Brings Abundant Montana Books

    I came across a funny passage in "Real Romance," Lauren Collins' profile of Nora Roberts for the June 22 issue of The New Yorker: "She never makes an outline, and she does most of her research on Google. Before she wrote 'Montana Sky,' her editor suggested that she go to Montana.'" [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 10:00am EDT

  • "Reading the West" Gets the Word Out About Regional Books

    A few weeks ago I wrote about some creative ideas people are coming up with to support books in the midst of this changing media landscape. In keeping with that theme, the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association recently launched the Reading the West program, with the goal of helping [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • "Reading the West" Gets the Word Out About Regional Books

    A few weeks ago I wrote about some creative ideas people are coming up with to support books in the midst of this changing media landscape. In keeping with that theme, the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association recently launched the Reading the West program, with the goal of helping [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • "Reading the West" Gets the Word Out About Regional Books

    A few weeks ago I wrote about some creative ideas people are coming up with to support books in the midst of this changing media landscape. In keeping with that theme, the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association recently launched the Reading the West program, with the goal of helping [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • Beetle Hysteria Again

    Beetle hysteria has raised its head again, and I am not talking about the Fab four. A prominent article in the New York Times titled "Tiny Beetle Adds New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts" quotes many foresters and others who suggest that beetle-kill trees across the West will create [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • Beetle Hysteria Again

    A prominent article in the New York Times titled "Tiny Beetle Adds New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts" quotes many foresters and others who suggest that beetle-kill trees across the West will create larger wildfires and by implications are "destroying" our forests. But the underlying assumptions are all flawed. [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • Beetle Hysteria Again

    Beetle hysteria has raised its head again, and I am not talking about the Fab four. A prominent article in the New York Times titled "Tiny Beetle Adds New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts" quotes many foresters and others who suggest that beetle-kill trees across the West will create [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • Beetle Hysteria Again

    Beetle hysteria has raised its head again, and I am not talking about the Fab four. A prominent article in the New York Times titled "Tiny Beetle Adds New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts" quotes many foresters and others who suggest that beetle-kill trees across the West will create [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • Birdman: Rachel Dickinson's "Falconer on the Edge"

    Falconer on the Edge: A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West by Rachel Dickinson Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 220 pages, $24 In Falconer on the Edge, Rachel Dickinson gives readers an in-depth look at a subculture that many people may not be aware existed. Falconers are an intense, passionate, [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • Birdman: Rachel Dickinson's "Falconer on the Edge"

    Falconer on the Edge: A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West by Rachel Dickinson Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 220 pages, $24 In Falconer on the Edge, Rachel Dickinson gives readers an in-depth look at a subculture that many people may not be aware existed. Falconers are an intense, passionate, [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • An Interview with Ron Carlson About "The Signal"

    Utah native Ron Carlson has been publishing acclaimed novels and short stories for over three decades, and in recent years he's hit a stride, with two novels, Five Skies and the new The Signal back-to-back. Carlson directed the Creative Writing program at Arizona State University for many years and three [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 4:00am EDT

  • Adjusted Development: Saving the World with Sustainable Growth

    Why should towns in the West change the way they grow? And why should planners design healthier, greener communities? Because if they don't, they'll suffer and fail. Dire as that answer sounds, it's sparked something worth celebrating: a planning revolution and a move to sustainability across the West, according to land-use and [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 2:51pm EDT

  • Adjusted Development: Saving the World with Sustainable Growth

    Why should towns in the West change the way they grow? And why should planners design healthier, greener communities? Because if they don't, they'll suffer and fail. Dire as that answer sounds, it's sparked something worth celebrating: a planning revolution and a move to sustainability across the West, according to land-use and [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 2:51pm EDT

  • Adjusted Development: Saving the World with Sustainable Growth

    Why should towns in the West change the way they grow? And why should planners design healthier, greener communities? Because if they don't, they'll suffer and fail. Dire as that answer sounds, it's sparked something worth celebrating: a planning revolution and a move to sustainability across the West, according to land-use and [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 2:51pm EDT

  • Adjusted Development: Saving the World with Sustainable Growth

    Why should towns in the West change the way they grow? And why should planners design healthier, greener communities? Because if they don't, they'll suffer and fail. Dire as that answer sounds, it's sparked something worth celebrating: a planning revolution and a move to sustainability across the West, according to land-use and [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 2:51pm EDT

  • Adjusted Development: Saving the World with Sustainable Growth

    Why should towns in the West change the way they grow? And why should planners design healthier, greener communities? Because if they don't, they'll suffer and fail. Dire as that answer sounds, it's sparked something worth celebrating: a planning revolution and a move to sustainability across the West, according to land-use and [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 2:51pm EDT

  • The Mightiest Rock: Tom Zoellner's "Uranium"

    Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner Viking, 337 pages, $26.95 In his new book Uranium, Tom Zoellner follows the trail of an element that was considered useless until less than a century ago, when scientists discovered how to unleash its power, and is now one of [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 7:00am EDT

  • The Mightiest Rock: Tom Zoellner's "Uranium"

    Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner Viking, 337 pages, $26.95 In his new book Uranium, Tom Zoellner follows the trail of an element that was considered useless until less than a century ago, when scientists discovered how to unleash its power, and is now one of [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 7:00am EDT

  • Man Gives $20,000 to Help Golden's Clear Creek Books

    Lisa Knudsen, director of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association recently wrote in the organization's newsletter about the fate of a couple of Colorado bookstores. Craig Johnson, the owner of Clear Creek Books in Golden, Colo. was having trouble keeping his business afloat. After some media attention about the [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • Man Gives $20,000 to Help Golden's Clear Creek Books

    Lisa Knudsen, director of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association recently wrote in the organization's newsletter about the fate of a couple of Colorado bookstores. Craig Johnson, the owner of Clear Creek Books in Golden, Colo. was having trouble keeping his business afloat. After some media attention about the [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 8:00am EDT

  • Saying Goodbye to the Rocky and McGuane and Stegner Honored

    Last Friday the Rocky Mountain News printed its last edition. With the close of the paper, another great books section vanished forever. I sincerely hope that Patti Thorn, the Rocky's gracious, smart Books Editor finds a new home for her talents soon. I wrote book reviews for the Rocky for [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Saying Goodbye to the Rocky and McGuane and Stegner Honored

    Last Friday the Rocky Mountain News printed its last edition. With the close of the paper, another great books section vanished forever. I sincerely hope that Patti Thorn, the Rocky's gracious, smart Books Editor finds a new home for her talents soon. I wrote book reviews for the Rocky for [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • Love Amid the Book Stacks and Regional Writers Win Prizes

    In time for Valentine's Day, I bring you a story of books and love: Shelf Awareness noted Caitlin Hamilton Summie's piece on the blog She Is Too Fond of Books, in which she writes about her wedding reception that was held at the LoDo Tattered Cover a few years ago. [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 8:23am EST

  • Love Amid the Book Stacks and Regional Writers Win Prizes

    In time for Valentine's Day, I bring you a story of books and love: Shelf Awareness noted Caitlin Hamilton Summie's piece on the blog She Is Too Fond of Books, in which she writes about her wedding reception that was held at the LoDo Tattered Cover a few years ago. [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 7:23am EST

  • Love Amid the Book Stacks and Regional Writers Win Prizes

    In time for Valentine's Day, I bring you a story of books and love: Shelf Awareness noted Caitlin Hamilton Summie's piece on the blog She Is Too Fond of Books, in which she writes about her wedding reception that was held at the LoDo Tattered Cover a few years ago. [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 7:23am EST

  • Love Amid the Book Stacks and Regional Writers Win Prizes

    In time for Valentine's Day, I bring you a story of books and love: Shelf Awareness noted Caitlin Hamilton Summie's piece on the blog She Is Too Fond of Books, in which she writes about her wedding reception that was held at the LoDo Tattered Cover a few years ago. [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 7:23am EST

  • Love Amid the Book Stacks and Regional Writers Win Prizes

    In time for Valentine's Day, I bring you a story of books and love: Shelf Awareness noted Caitlin Hamilton Summie's piece on the blog She Is Too Fond of Books, in which she writes about her wedding reception that was held at the LoDo Tattered Cover a few years ago. [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • After 20 Years, 'Zephyr' Blows Out of Moab

    They met at a poker game in an old brick house on the edge of Moab, Utah. Jim Stiles was a young volunteer at Arches National Park, a sometimes-artist shacking up in a desert trailer owned by the Park Service. The grizzled man across the table, wearing a furry state [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 10:33am EST

  • After 20 Years, 'Zephyr' Blows Out of Moab

    They met at a poker game in an old brick house on the edge of Moab, Utah. Jim Stiles was a young volunteer at Arches National Park, a sometimes-artist shacking up in a desert trailer owned by the Park Service. The grizzled man across the table, wearing a furry state [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 9:33am EST

  • After 20 Years, 'Zephyr' Blows Out of Moab

    They met at a poker game in an old brick house on the edge of Moab, Utah. Jim Stiles was a young volunteer at Arches National Park, a sometimes-artist shacking up in a desert trailer owned by the Park Service. The grizzled man across the table, wearing a furry state [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 9:33am EST

  • After 20 Years, 'Zephyr' Blows Out of Moab

    They met at a poker game in an old brick house on the edge of Moab, Utah. Jim Stiles was a young volunteer at Arches National Park, a sometimes-artist shacking up in a desert trailer owned by the Park Service. The grizzled man across the table, wearing a furry state [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 9:33am EST

  • Utah County Creates Roadmap for Growth, Saving Farmland

    The Salt Lake Tribune's Brandon Loomis has a great story today about how Morgan County, Utah is poising itself for a quickly approaching population boom. The story highlights a Rocky Mountain community that -- unlike others already grappling with rampant growth -- has the space and time to really envision [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2008, 1:59pm EST

  • Utah County Creates Roadmap for Growth, Saving Farmland

    The Salt Lake Tribune's Brandon Loomis has a great story today about how Morgan County, Utah is poising itself for a quickly approaching population boom. The story highlights a Rocky Mountain community that -- unlike others already grappling with rampant growth -- has the space and time to really envision [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2008, 12:59pm EST

  • Utah County Creates Roadmap for Growth, Saving Farmland

    The Salt Lake Tribune's Brandon Loomis has a great story today about how Morgan County, Utah is poising itself for a quickly approaching population boom. The story highlights a Rocky Mountain community that -- unlike others already grappling with rampant growth -- has the space and time to really envision [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2008, 12:59pm EST

  • Utah County Creates Roadmap for Growth, Saving Farmland

    The Salt Lake Tribune's Brandon Loomis has a great story today about how Morgan County, Utah is poising itself for a quickly approaching population boom. The story highlights a Rocky Mountain community that -- unlike others already grappling with rampant growth -- has the space and time to really envision [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2008, 12:59pm EST

  • Best Books of 2008, Part Two

    In part two of the NewWest.Net/Books Best Books of 2008 list, I'll discuss my favorite books set in Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and other Western states. Oregon One of my favorite books set in Oregon actually was published late last year, but I didn't get to mention it in last year's best books [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 5:01am EST

  • Best Books of 2008, Part Two

    In part two of the NewWest.Net/Books Best Books of 2008 list, I'll discuss my favorite books set in Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and other Western states. Oregon One of my favorite books set in Oregon actually was published late last year, but I didn't get to mention it in last year's best books [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 5:01am EST

  • Best Books of 2008, Part Two

    In part two of the NewWest.Net/Books Best Books of 2008 list, I'll discuss my favorite books set in Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and other Western states. Oregon One of my favorite books set in Oregon actually was published late last year, but I didn't get to mention it in last year's best books [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 5:01am EST

  • Best Books of 2008, Part Two

    In part two of the NewWest.Net/Books Best Books of 2008 list, I'll discuss my favorite books set in Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and other Western states. Oregon One of my favorite books set in Oregon actually was published late last year, but I didn't get to mention it in last year's best books [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 4:01am EST

  • Best Books of 2008, Part Two

    In part two of the NewWest.Net/Books Best Books of 2008 list, I'll discuss my favorite books set in Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and other Western states. Oregon One of my favorite books set in Oregon actually was published late last year, but I didn't get to mention it in last year's best books [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 4:01am EST

  • Best Books of 2008, Part Two

    In part two of the NewWest.Net/Books Best Books of 2008 list, I'll discuss my favorite books set in Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and other Western states. Oregon One of my favorite books set in Oregon actually was published late last year, but I didn't get to mention it in last year's best books [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 4:01am EST

  • Mormons & Taxidermy: Alissa York's "Effigy"

    Effigy By Alissa York St. Martin's Press, 342 pages, $25.95 Effigy, Alissa York's fascinating, accomplished new novel set largely in Utah territory in 1867, transports the reader to Mormon ranch where the four wives of Erastus Hammer pursue their separate destinies within the strictures placed on them by their marriages and their society. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2008, 8:00am EST

  • Mormons & Taxidermy: Alissa York's "Effigy"

    Effigy By Alissa York St. Martin's Press, 342 pages, $25.95 Effigy, Alissa York's fascinating, accomplished new novel set largely in Utah territory in 1867, transports the reader to Mormon ranch where the four wives of Erastus Hammer pursue their separate destinies within the strictures placed on them by their marriages and their society. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2008, 8:00am EST

  • Mormons & Taxidermy: Alissa York's "Effigy"

    Effigy By Alissa York St. Martin's Press, 342 pages, $25.95 Effigy, Alissa York's fascinating, accomplished new novel set largely in Utah territory in 1867, transports the reader to Mormon ranch where the four wives of Erastus Hammer pursue their separate destinies within the strictures placed on them by their marriages and their society. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2008, 8:00am EST

  • Mormons & Taxidermy: Alissa York's "Effigy"

    Effigy By Alissa York St. Martin's Press, 342 pages, $25.95 Effigy, Alissa York's fascinating, accomplished new novel set largely in Utah territory in 1867, transports the reader to Mormon ranch where the four wives of Erastus Hammer pursue their separate destinies within the strictures placed on them by their marriages and their society. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2008, 7:00am EST

  • Mormons & Taxidermy: Alissa York's "Effigy"

    Effigy By Alissa York St. Martin's Press, 342 pages, $25.95 Effigy, Alissa York's fascinating, accomplished new novel set largely in Utah territory in 1867, transports the reader to Mormon ranch where the four wives of Erastus Hammer pursue their separate destinies within the strictures placed on them by their marriages and their society. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2008, 7:00am EST

  • Mormons & Taxidermy: Alissa York's "Effigy"

    Effigy By Alissa York St. Martin's Press, 342 pages, $25.95 Effigy, Alissa York's fascinating, accomplished new novel set largely in Utah territory in 1867, transports the reader to Mormon ranch where the four wives of Erastus Hammer pursue their separate destinies within the strictures placed on them by their marriages and their society. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2008, 7:00am EST

  • Westerners Among Whiting Winners

    Last week the 2008 Whiting Writers Award for emerging writers was announced, and among the ten winners of $50,000 each were a couple of Western writers, Oregon native fiction writer Benjamin Percy (whom we featured here), and fiction writer Manuel Muñ;oz, who currently lives in Tucson and teaches at the [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 8:00am EST

  • Westerners Among Whiting Winners

    Last week the 2008 Whiting Writers Award for emerging writers was announced, and among the ten winners of $50,000 each were a couple of Western writers, Oregon native fiction writer Benjamin Percy (whom we featured here), and fiction writer Manuel Muñ;oz, who currently lives in Tucson and teaches at the [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 8:00am EST

  • Westerners Among Whiting Winners

    Last week the 2008 Whiting Writers Award for emerging writers was announced, and among the ten winners of $50,000 each were a couple of Western writers, Oregon native fiction writer Benjamin Percy (whom we featured here), and fiction writer Manuel Muñ;oz, who currently lives in Tucson and teaches at the [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 7:00am EST

  • Westerners Among Whiting Winners

    Last week the 2008 Whiting Writers Award for emerging writers was announced, and among the ten winners of $50,000 each were a couple of Western writers, Oregon native fiction writer Benjamin Percy (whom we featured here), and fiction writer Manuel Muñ;oz, who currently lives in Tucson and teaches at the [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 7:00am EST

  • Westerners Among Whiting Winners

    Last week the 2008 Whiting Writers Award for emerging writers was announced, and among the ten winners of $50,000 each were a couple of Western writers, Oregon native fiction writer Benjamin Percy (whom we featured here), and fiction writer Manuel Muñ;oz, who currently lives in Tucson and teaches at the [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 7:00am EST

  • An Interview with Erin Hogan

    Erin Hogan's first book, The Spiral Jetta, is an entertaining account of the road trip she took through the American West in her Volkswagon Jetta, seeking the greatest hits of land art, including Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Michael Heizer's Double Negative in Utah and Walter De Maria's Lightning Field [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 6:32am EST

  • An Interview with Erin Hogan

    Erin Hogan's first book, The Spiral Jetta, is an entertaining account of the road trip she took through the American West in her Volkswagon Jetta, seeking the greatest hits of land art, including Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Michael Heizer's Double Negative in Utah and Walter De Maria's Lightning Field [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 6:32am EST

  • An Interview with Erin Hogan

    Erin Hogan's first book, The Spiral Jetta, is an entertaining account of the road trip she took through the American West in her Volkswagon Jetta, seeking the greatest hits of land art, including Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Michael Heizer's Double Negative in Utah and Walter De Maria's Lightning Field [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 5:32am EST

  • An Interview with Erin Hogan

    Erin Hogan's first book, The Spiral Jetta, is an entertaining account of the road trip she took through the American West in her Volkswagon Jetta, seeking the greatest hits of land art, including Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Michael Heizer's Double Negative in Utah and Walter De Maria's Lightning Field [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 5:32am EST

  • An Interview with Erin Hogan

    Erin Hogan's first book, The Spiral Jetta, is an entertaining account of the road trip she took through the American West in her Volkswagon Jetta, seeking the greatest hits of land art, including Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Michael Heizer's Double Negative in Utah and Walter De Maria's Lightning Field [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 5:32am EST

  • Helena, Moab, and Denver Host Literary Festivals

    It's literary award and festival season across the region. Colorado Humanities and Colorado Center for the Book will announce the winners of the 17th annual Colorado Book Awards tonight at the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus in Denver (6-10 p.m.), and tickets are available for $75. As I mentioned [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 9:00am EDT

  • Helena, Moab, and Denver Host Literary Festivals

    It's literary award and festival season across the region. Colorado Humanities and Colorado Center for the Book will announce the winners of the 17th annual Colorado Book Awards tonight at the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus in Denver (6-10 p.m.), and tickets are available for $75. As I mentioned [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 9:00am EDT

  • Helena, Moab, and Denver Host Literary Festivals

    It's literary award and festival season across the region. Colorado Humanities and Colorado Center for the Book will announce the winners of the 17th annual Colorado Book Awards tonight at the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus in Denver (6-10 p.m.), and tickets are available for $75. As I mentioned [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 9:00am EDT

  • Helena, Moab, and Denver Host Literary Festivals

    It's literary award and festival season across the region. Colorado Humanities and Colorado Center for the Book will announce the winners of the 17th annual Colorado Book Awards tonight at the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus in Denver (6-10 p.m.), and tickets are available for $75. As I mentioned [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Helena, Moab, and Denver Host Literary Festivals

    It's literary award and festival season across the region. Colorado Humanities and Colorado Center for the Book will announce the winners of the 17th annual Colorado Book Awards tonight at the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus in Denver (6-10 p.m.), and tickets are available for $75. As I mentioned [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Helena, Moab, and Denver Host Literary Festivals

    It's literary award and festival season across the region. Colorado Humanities and Colorado Center for the Book will announce the winners of the 17th annual Colorado Book Awards tonight at the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus in Denver (6-10 p.m.), and tickets are available for $75. As I mentioned [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Stephen Trimble's "Bargaining for Eden"

    Bargaining for Eden by Stephen Trimble University of California Press 319 pages, $29.95 The contemporary story of the American West is being written in town halls across the region where neighbors stand at odds with one another over their vision for the prized landscapes that surround them. Every area has its Eden besieged by developers, [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 9:37am EDT

  • Stephen Trimble's "Bargaining for Eden"

    Bargaining for Eden by Stephen Trimble University of California Press 319 pages, $29.95 The contemporary story of the American West is being written in town halls across the region where neighbors stand at odds with one another over their vision for the prized landscapes that surround them. Every area has its Eden besieged by developers, [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 9:37am EDT

  • Stephen Trimble's "Bargaining for Eden"

    Bargaining for Eden by Stephen Trimble University of California Press 319 pages, $29.95 The contemporary story of the American West is being written in town halls across the region where neighbors stand at odds with one another over their vision for the prized landscapes that surround them. Every area has its Eden besieged by developers, [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 9:37am EDT

  • Stephen Trimble's "Bargaining for Eden"

    Bargaining for Eden by Stephen Trimble University of California Press 319 pages, $29.95 The contemporary story of the American West is being written in town halls across the region where neighbors stand at odds with one another over their vision for the prized landscapes that surround them. Every area has its Eden besieged by developers, [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 9:37am EDT

  • Stephen Trimble's "Bargaining for Eden"

    Bargaining for Eden by Stephen Trimble University of California Press 319 pages, $29.95 The contemporary story of the American West is being written in town halls across the region where neighbors stand at odds with one another over their vision for the prized landscapes that surround them. Every area has its Eden besieged by developers, [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 8:37am EDT

  • Stephen Trimble's "Bargaining for Eden"

    Bargaining for Eden by Stephen Trimble University of California Press 319 pages, $29.95 The contemporary story of the American West is being written in town halls across the region where neighbors stand at odds with one another over their vision for the prized landscapes that surround them. Every area has its Eden besieged by developers, [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 8:37am EDT

  • Stephen Trimble's "Bargaining for Eden"

    Bargaining for Eden by Stephen Trimble University of California Press 319 pages, $29.95 The contemporary story of the American West is being written in town halls across the region where neighbors stand at odds with one another over their vision for the prized landscapes that surround them. Every area has its Eden besieged by developers, [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 8:37am EDT

  • Wyoming Reads, Wroblewski Takes His Time on Film Deal

    It seems like every week I have some new information to mention about bestselling Colorado writer David Wroblewski, so here's today's tidbit: Rachel Deahl of Publishers Weekly reports: "...48-year-old debut author David Wroblewski has made an unusual request--he's asked would-be producers to pitch their film ideas to him in person [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2008, 9:00am EDT

  • Wyoming Reads, Wroblewski Takes His Time on Film Deal

    It seems like every week I have some new information to mention about bestselling Colorado writer David Wroblewski, so here's today's tidbit: Rachel Deahl of Publishers Weekly reports: "...48-year-old debut author David Wroblewski has made an unusual request--he's asked would-be producers to pitch their film ideas to him in person [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Wyoming Reads, Wroblewski Takes His Time on Film Deal

    It seems like every week I have some new information to mention about bestselling Colorado writer David Wroblewski, so here's today's tidbit: Rachel Deahl of Publishers Weekly reports: "...48-year-old debut author David Wroblewski has made an unusual request--he's asked would-be producers to pitch their film ideas to him in person" [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Wyoming Reads, Wroblewski Takes His Time on Film Deal

    It seems like every week I have some new information to mention about bestselling Colorado writer David Wroblewski, so here's today's tidbit: Rachel Deahl of Publishers Weekly reports: "...48-year-old debut author David Wroblewski has made an unusual request--he's asked would-be producers to pitch their film ideas to him in person" [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Denver Picks Dead Author and U.K. Publisher to Print Missoulian's Controversial Book

    Yesterday, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper announced that this year's pick for One Book, One Denver will be Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. A few weeks ago I mentioned that Random House had dropped plans to publish former Missoulian Sherry Jones' novel, The Jewel of Medina, because the publisher feared that [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2008, 7:09am EDT

  • Denver Picks Dead Author and U.K. Publisher to Print Missoulian's Controversial Book

    Yesterday, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper announced that this year's pick for One Book, One Denver will be Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. A few weeks ago I mentioned that Random House had dropped plans to publish former Missoulian Sherry Jones' novel, The Jewel of Medina, because the publisher feared that [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2008, 6:09am EDT

  • Land Art Rover: Erin Hogan's "Spiral Jetta"

    Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West By Erin Hogan University of Chicago Press 180 pages, $20 My husband announced one day that he and my daughter had been out making "land art." The next time I walked out back I saw what he meant: they had gathered [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Land Art Rover: Erin Hogan's "Spiral Jetta"

    Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West By Erin Hogan University of Chicago Press 180 pages, $20 My husband announced one day that he and my daughter had been out making "land art." The next time I walked out back I saw what he meant: they had gathered [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Land Art Rover: Erin Hogan's "Spiral Jetta"

    Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West By Erin Hogan University of Chicago Press 180 pages, $20 My husband announced one day that he and my daughter had been out making "land art." The next time I walked out back I saw what he meant: they had gathered [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 7:00am EDT

  • LA Times Ends its Book Review and Colorado Seeks A Poet Laureate

    As many have noted, the Los Angeles Times published its last freestanding book review section this weekend. That leaves the San Francisco Chronicle as the only paper west of the Mississippi with a separate newspaper book review section (the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and the [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 9:42am EDT

  • LA Times Ends its Book Review and Colorado Seeks A Poet Laureate

    As many have noted, the Los Angeles Times published its last freestanding book review section this weekend. That leaves the San Francisco Chronicle as the only paper west of the Mississippi with a separate newspaper book review section (the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and the [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 8:42am EDT

  • Utah Supreme Court Weighs In On Stream Access Debate

    Turns out Montana isn't the only state with contentious stream access issues. On Friday, the Utah Supreme court issued what sportsmen in the state are calling a landmark decision essentially giving the public the right to wade and fish natural streams. According to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune, the [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2008, 4:52pm EDT

  • Zane Grey's Cabin, and Westword Names NewWest.Net/Books Best Literary Blog

    Popular western novelist Zane Grey's one-room cabin in Oregon will now be preserved for everyone, according to Jeff Barnard of the Associated Press. (Via Texas Pages.) Barnard writes: "One of the most popular sites on the Rogue River is a rude one-room cabin of peeled logs and hand-split shingles. The cabin [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Zane Grey's Cabin, and Westword Names NewWest.Net/Books Best Literary Blog

    Popular western novelist Zane Grey's one-room cabin in Oregon will now be preserved for everyone, according to Jeff Barnard of the Associated Press. (Via Texas Pages.) Barnard writes: "One of the most popular sites on the Rogue River is a rude one-room cabin of peeled logs and hand-split shingles. The [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Idaho Bookstore Owner Dies in Car Accident

    This week brought some sad news for the Idaho book community: Sun Valley Online reports that Gary Hunt, the owner of Iconoclast Books in Ketchum and the Sun Valley Mall, was killed in a car accident Saturday morning. Sun Valley Online established the blog Gary Hunt Remembrances for people to [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Idaho Bookstore Owner Dies in Car Accident

    This week brought some sad news for the Idaho book community: Sun Valley Online reports that Gary Hunt, the owner of Iconoclast Books in Ketchum and the Sun Valley Mall, was killed in a car accident Saturday morning. Sun Valley Online established the blog Gary Hunt Remembrances for people to [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Wilderness is Multiple Use

    Have you ever heard somebody say they prefer "multiple use" over Wilderness? I have what seems like a thousand times, and every time I hear it, I say to myself, wrong! So, it seems like a good time to say it out loud because the words, "multiple use" have been [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2008, 4:57am EDT

  • Wilderness is Multiple Use

    Have you ever heard somebody say they prefer "multiple use" over Wilderness? I have what seems like a thousand times, and every time I hear it, I say to myself, wrong! So, it seems like a good time to say it out loud because the words, "multiple use" have been [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2008, 4:57am EDT

  • The Texas FLDS Raid: Views From Utah

    The handling of the raid of the Yearning for Zion Ranch polygamous compound in Eldorado, Texas, and the subsequent detainment of the entire community continues to draw strong reactions here in Utah. Connor Boyack, a website designer in Lehi, Utah circulated a petition calling for the release from custody or [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 12:17pm EDT

  • Lynn Rossetto Kasper Visits Boulder & Desert Writing Award Announced

    The Boulder Farmer's Market will open for its first Wednesday afternoon of the season today, kicking off with a book signing and talk by Lynn Rossetto Kasper, host of NPR's The Splendid Table. She'll be discussing her new book, How to Eat Supper. (Free, 5:30-6:30 p.m.) The Bluff, Utah-based Ellen Meloy [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Public Land Owners Taking RAT, Forest Service to Civil Court

    Enough is enough, say the owners of our national forests. And they may have finally found a way to spike the Recreation Access Tax or RAT. After years of working through cumbersome administrative channels and several rounds in criminal court, people interested in reasonable and free access to their public land [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2008, 6:01pm EDT

  • Public Land Owners Taking RAT, Forest Service to Civil Court

    Enough is enough, say the owners of our national forests. And they may have finally found a way to spike the Recreation Access Tax or RAT. After years of working through cumbersome administrative channels and several rounds in criminal court, people interested in reasonable and free access to their public land [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2008, 6:01pm EDT

  • The Wilderness Drought and How the Green Group Feud Keeps it Alive

    Over the past two years, I've been periodically posting selections of my favorite comments from readers of my columns and articles. I plan to continue doing this, but differently. Instead of listing comments chronologically, I've edited them into general subject areas. In this case, here are a few insightful comments [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2008, 1:02am EDT

  • The Wilderness Drought and How the Green Group Feud Keeps it Alive

    Over the past two years, I've been periodically posting selections of my favorite comments from readers of my columns and articles. I plan to continue doing this, but differently. Instead of listing comments chronologically, I've edited them into general subject areas. In this case, here are a few insightful comments [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2008, 1:02am EDT

  • Designing the New West

    The Designing the New West: Architecture and Landscape in the Mountain West Conference is wrapping up here in Bozeman at the historic Gallatin Gateway Inn. Put on by NewWest.Net and sponsored by the Sonoran Institute, the conference brought together designers from all over the country to explore innovative design ideas, [...]
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    Posted: April 26, 2008, 4:13pm EDT

  • Designing the New West

    The Designing the New West: Architecture and Landscape in the Mountain West Conference is wrapping up here in Bozeman at the historic Gallatin Gateway Inn. Put on by NewWest.Net and sponsored by the Sonoran Institute, the conference brought together designers from all over the country to explore innovative design ideas, [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2008, 4:13pm EDT
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