
Michael Dax Explores grizzly Politics at Elk River Books
The struggle to maintain federal protection for the Yellowstone grizzly bear is at the forefront of the day’s news, with lines being drawn between biologists and politicians, conservationists and trophy hunters. In the midst of this issue, author and environmentalist Michael J. Dax will visit Livingston’s Elk River Books on Tuesday, June 14, for a […]

Livingston’s Literary Heritage on the Occasion of Elk River’s 5th Anniversary
Guest post by Richard S. Wheeler Long ago, I had the great good fortune to settle in Livingston, quite probably the most important literary community in the country. The town had drawn some extraordinary talents from the literary and entertainment worlds. They collected here in a village with defined boundaries and wilderness in sight, to […]

Doug Peacock remembers Jim Harrison
My Friend Jim by Doug Peacock A month ago, I drove a half-cooked leg of lamb around the foot of the Santa Rita Mountains to Jim Harrison’s place on Sonoita Creek in southeastern Arizona. The lamb was half-cooked because I’d planned to finish it off in Jim’s oven while our dogs played. Jim lived on […]

Esteemed Writers Gather in Livingston for Gala Reading
Tickets go on sale October 1 for the inaugural Elk River Writers Workshop Gala Faculty Reading, featuring six nationally renowned writers. Novelists William Kittredge and Rick Bass, poets William Pitt Root and Pamela Uschuk, naturalist Doug Peacock, and non-fiction writer Maryanne Vollers will read from their recent work during a party at the Shane Center […]

Reading: All the Wild that Remains
Award-winning author David Gessner will travel to Livingston to read from and talk about his new book, All the Wild that Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West, on Tuesday, July 21, at Elk River Books. “Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western […]

Wrenched: The Legacy of the Monkey Wrench Gang
Elk River Arts & Lectures is now selling tickets to a special screening of the feature-length documentary film, Wrenched: The Legacy of the Monkey Wrench Gang, at the Dulcie Theatre on Thursday, November 20, at 7 pm. Doug Peacock will make a guest appearance to introduce the film; Peacock was a close friend of Edward […]

Grand Re-Opening, Gala Reading
Elk River Books, the Wheatgrass Saloon and Mustang Kitchen will celebrate their move to Main Street with a series of events on Thursday, May 22. Mustang will start the evening with a reception and hors d’oeuvres from 5 to 7 p.m. at their new storefront, 112 N. Main St. Then Elk River Books and Wheatgrass […]