Wild at Heart
I had the pleasure last week to interview one of my writing heroes, David Quammen. It may not be a big deal to some, but last May’s issue of National Geographic that focused on Yellowstone National...
View ArticleBetter, Bigger
In my interview with David Quammen, he said: Ken Burns did his film series on America’s National Parks, and he did a very fine job; he calls it ‘America’s Best Idea.’ Even on the back of my book it...
View ArticleThey Say It’s Her Birthday
Today is my friend Jenny Montgomery’s birthday. It also happens I have a Q&A in this week’s Independent in support of her pop-up poetry/art installation at Radius Gallery called “Hatch.” You can...
View ArticleTrump Didn’t Win
I wish I could say I’m surprised this morning, but I’m not. Really not at all. Disappointed, yes. But certainly not surprised. Here is the late Joe Bageant talking about his book Deer Hunting with...
View ArticleA Thousandish Words on the Relationship Between Literature and Fly Fishing
Poet/writer Chris Dombrowski (left) and the legendary John Gierach, at Fact & Fiction Books, Missoula, Mont, 4/13/2017. CD holds Gierach’s latest, A Fly Rod of Your Own, and Gierach holds...
View ArticleI Could Not Simplify Myself
Excerpt from the wonderful feature profile “Peter Matthiessen’s Homecoming” in New York Times Magazine, April 3, 2014, by Jeff Himmelman, published just days before Matthiessen passed away.
View ArticleA Good Time Was Had By All
Elk River Books, Livingston, Montana December 7th, 2018 77th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor 17th Anniversary of My Emancipation from the Second-to-Last Real Job I’ll Ever Have Some holiday walk thing...
View ArticleHappy 81st, Jim
Today is Jim Harrison’s birthday. He would have been 81. I sound like a broken record in reminding people, but Harrison is my favorite writer, if only because he wrote whatever the hell he wanted to,...
View ArticleSome Dick Moves Demand Calling Out
I’m not big on anonymously posting pictures of people out in the world, or the stuff they do, for random folks to poke fingers and laugh at. Bad haircuts, horrible sartorial choices, we’ve all been...
View ArticleMark Gibbons is Mostly Cloudy
Fact & Fiction Books has suspended all book events at least until April due to the virus. The first casualty of that is my good friend Mark Gibbons, who was supposed to launch his new book of...
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