Off to Missoula
This year's Montana Festival of the Book takes place Friday and Saturday in Missoula, and as usual I'm greatly looking forward to it. Readings by Ivan Doig, David James Duncan, and new MSU professor David Quammen; panels on biography and creative nonfiction; and I wish I had tickets to "A Prairie Home Companion" featuring Stephanie Davis.
I'm moderating a panel Friday at 2:30 involving a fascinating cross-section of writers talking the West of today and yesterday. In a recent post I mentioned Kirby Larson's wonderful new book "Hattie Big Sky." Also on the panel is Colorado novelist William Haywood Henderson, whose heroine "Augusta Locke" is about the same age as Hattie. (Western novels featuring female protagonists and set in the 20th century. Hmmm...)
Then we've got Paula Morin, whose book "Honest Horses" combines two rather unheralded forms: oral history and hand-painted photographs. We've got cultural historian Liza Nicholas, whose book "Becoming Western" looks at the evolution of Western character. Finally there's Willard Wyman. I haven't yet finished his novel "High Country," but I'm totally engrossed in it.
What do those folks have in common? Well, come to the panel and find out.
I'm always interested in feedback, via info at johnclaytonbooks...
I'm moderating a panel Friday at 2:30 involving a fascinating cross-section of writers talking the West of today and yesterday. In a recent post I mentioned Kirby Larson's wonderful new book "Hattie Big Sky." Also on the panel is Colorado novelist William Haywood Henderson, whose heroine "Augusta Locke" is about the same age as Hattie. (Western novels featuring female protagonists and set in the 20th century. Hmmm...)
Then we've got Paula Morin, whose book "Honest Horses" combines two rather unheralded forms: oral history and hand-painted photographs. We've got cultural historian Liza Nicholas, whose book "Becoming Western" looks at the evolution of Western character. Finally there's Willard Wyman. I haven't yet finished his novel "High Country," but I'm totally engrossed in it.
What do those folks have in common? Well, come to the panel and find out.
I'm always interested in feedback, via info at johnclaytonbooks...
