AltWeeklies Wire
No Walk in the Parknew
Exploring nature -- human and wild -- with former ranger Jordan Fisher Smith.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
04-07-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jordan Fisher Smith, Nature Noir
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
Abridged Too Farnew
In his account of his struggle with the tide of books he's bought, Nick Hornby tosses everything that is sacred -- but annoyingly fussy -- about book reviewing and communicates directly with readers.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
01-06-2005 |
Nonfiction
Trail of Beersnew
Woody Kipp's self-portrait is essentially Act I in the story of his life, from his birth and immediate adoption to his participation in the American Indian Movement and the siege at Wounded Knee, S.D.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
01-06-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Stars and Barsnew
In spite of limitations, like not being allowed to talk to inmates, David Rose does a good job of making this faraway legal black hole known as Guantanamo come to life.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
12-16-2004 |
Nonfiction
High and Drynew
Wyoming's distaff Faulkner returns to home turf.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
12-09-2004 |
Fiction
Estronautsnew
None of the women in these pages are famous adventuresses. Among their number are a bookseller, a forest service employee, a human rights worker and a kindergarten teacher -- and all share a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of solitude.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
11-18-2004 |
Nonfiction
Critical Conditionnew
Anyone who's read Dead Elvis and Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung has read way too much music journalism. Neal Pollack has read way too much music journalism.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
11-18-2004 |
Fiction
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
His Velocity: Keeping Up With Dave Eggersnew
While Heartbreaking Work fried Eggers' grief over his parents' death in a vat of irony -- a necessary tic, no doubt, in de-sanctifying the memoir -- these stories do not have their guards up. They are raw, unfiltered and have the quivering texture of lived experience.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
10-29-2004 |
Fiction
To Wack and Backnew
On a round-the-world tour, a hip-hop scholar finds America's best-selling music in Tokyo, Rio, New York, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
10-14-2004 |
Nonfiction
Pressing Issuesnew
"That guy who cut his arm off" in a Utah slot canyon opens up.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
10-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
Exhuming Brautigannew
Montana poet Greg Keeler remembers riding shotgun with the cult author Richard Brautigan.
Missoula Independent |
Scott Preston |
10-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
