2012
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P.J. O’Rourke on “The Snow Leopard’s Tale”
The early reviews are starting to come in on Thomas McIntyre’s The Snow Leopard’s Tale. Ted Kerasote has called it “a haunting, beautifully written, and thought-provoking tale.” Stephen. J. Bodio has said that he stands before the novel “in awe and with a little envy.” And now P.J. O’Rourke writes us that, “Tom McIntyre has written a […]
Paul Zarzyski’s 9/11 Poetry
Over at his personal website, Bangtail author Paul Zarzyski offers up a triumvirate of poems on the occasion of 9/11. Deeply moving, and very impactful. Man, this guy’s a good writer….
Fred Haefele’s “Fire on the Mountain” Available Free for Amazon Customers
Coming into what we hope is the end of fire season here in Montana, Fred Haefele’s excellent essay, “Fire on the Mountain,” is available free, for a limited time, to Kindle readers. As excerpted from his book Extremophilia, this is the story of Fred’s final summer as a wildland fire fighter, working a blaze outside […]
Riding the Rough String #1 Bestseller at Country Bookshelf
Toby Thompson’s Riding the Rough String is the #1 Weekly Bestseller at Bozeman’s Country Bookshelf.
Toby Thompson to appear at Montana Festival of the Book
Great news, we’ve just had confirmation Toby Thompson is slated to attend the Montana Festival of the Book. He’ll be reading and in conversation with William Hjortsberg Saturday morning October 6th in Missoula. More details to come.
It’s Fire Season in Montana, Read Fred Haefele’s “Fire on the Mountain”
Fire season in Montana, and I’ve been re-reading Fred Haefele’s artful, impactful essay on wildland firefighting, anthologized in Extremophilia “Fire on the Mountain.” A brief excerpt… “Our first morning on the line, Collin and I were cutting through doghair lodgepole, downhill from the fire. It seemed there were too many of us, that we were […]
Toby Thompson’s Interview Posted on “The Write Question”
Toby Thompson, author of Riding the Rough String, sat for an interview with Bangtail Press. That interview has been posted on Cherie Newman’s “The Write Question” blog. http://thewritequestion.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-interview-with-toby-thompson.html An excerpt: BP: Many of your pieces in Rough String concern writers. Is that an accident? TT: No. Many writers were smitten as children by the mythos of the West, […]
