AltWeeklies Wire
Lives Less Ordinarynew
Claire Davis returns with a collection of short stories aimed squarely at the moment of truth.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
10-20-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Claire Davis, Labors of the Heart
Long Way to Monkey Townnew
Novelist and memoirist Swain Wolfe hunts down his haunted past.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
07-06-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Wasting a 'Fortune'new
Another chick-lit cash-in shortchanges a gender.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
06-22-2006 |
Fiction
High and Mightynew
Wyman packs a Western punch.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
03-17-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: High Country, Willard Wyman
Beating the Drum, Dullynew
This Bellwether Prize winning novel about a (fictional) Alaskan alt-weekly editor's moral conundrums is too do-gooder for its own good.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
02-02-2006 |
Fiction
Wild at Heartnew
Veteran and environmentalist (and veteran environmentalist) Doug Peacock takes a walk down (Edward) Abbey road.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
09-01-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Doug Peacock, Walking It Off
Behind the Lettersnew
Andrew Carroll traveled the world on his quest to preserve veteran voices -- including Kurt Vonnegut's.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
08-11-2005 |
Nonfiction
In It for the Mysterynew
Author Peter Stark kayaked the 750 kilometer Lugenda River -- largely unexplored and populated with crocodiles and hippos -- and recounts his adventure, and the history of the ones before his in his new book.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
07-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Love Reexaminednew
A classic opera is retold with modern flair.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
04-21-2005 |
Fiction
Buddha Barksnew
In Pam Houston's new novel, a talking dog is woman's best friend.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
03-24-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Pam Houston, Sight Hound
Men Are Dogsnew
A memoir defines the pleasures and pitfalls of Chick Lit.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
02-18-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Rachel Toor, The Pig and I
The Old Man and the Secretarynew
Valerie Danby-Smith lived with Hemingway in Cuba; she wrote out his correspondence; she typed out the chapters to A Moveable Feast; she stayed up late with him, trying to ease his insomnia; she was a receptive student to his natural and eager teaching.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
11-18-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Westward, Oh...new
The tension in Mark Spragg's latest novel, slated for a forthcoming Robert Redford film, is between Spragg's wonderful prose and predictable story.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
11-04-2004 |
Fiction
True Korthnew
Heimo Korth is the subject of author James Campbell’s book debut, a Krakauer-meets-McPhee-style portrait of family life in the bush -- a sort of Daniel Boone for the modern reader.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
08-26-2004 |
Nonfiction
