We’re just this morning thumbing through a thesaurus trying to come up with appropriate adjectives, synonyms for pleased and proud. We are so gladdened, delighted, gratified, and tickled to say that Tom McIntyre’s The Snow Leopard’s Tale is now available for purchase, both as a trade paperback original as well as an e-book. Artful and readable, profound and entertaining, it’s our feeling that this short novel should be read by…well, pretty much anybody who has ever read a novel. Seriously.
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 story so beyond the ken of our quotidian existence that it is un-human, inhuman, and super-human all at once. The Snow Leopard’s Tale is strange, in the sense of the Latin root of the word, ‘outside the place we’re in.’ McIntyre’s meld of man and beast alerts the beast in me and alarms the man.”
From the moment we first read this remarkable manuscript, we’ve been wanting to shout it from the rooftops. Simply, “What a great book.”
And now that the release date is only a few days away, we can finally start our shouting…
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….
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 of Missoula. It’s an impactful, elegiac look at what it means to try to control the uncontrollable, even in the face of your own surprising (if inarguable) aging. If asked to read this one for a college class, you’d no doubt write, “Man v. Nature,” somewhere in the margin.
Toby Thompson’s Riding the Rough String is the #1 Weekly Bestseller at Bozeman’s Country Bookshelf.
Toby Thompson author of Riding the Rough String
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.
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 bunched up, the Hotshots working too close behind us. I had stopped to gas my saw when a burnt-through snag arced out of the fire and blindsided a Hotshot kid while he dug line. He did a little cartwheel then went down hard, fifty feet away from me. I heard the strike team leader say, “Is there a man down?” though I was certain that he’d seen it happen too. One by one, the other saws died, the voices seemed to fade, the whole hillside went quiet, and all you could hear was the hiss and pop of the fire. I stood, frozen to the spot. Finally the kid moaned and it seemed to break the spell. I trotted over, light-headed, full of dread…”
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