“Awake in the World” Reading
Livingston-based Riverfeet Press will present a reading from its anthology of nature and adventure writers, Awake in the World, on Thursday, Sept. 21, at Elk River Books. The anthology includes stories, essays and poems by more than 40 authors that examine and celebrate the wild outdoors and its creatures—furred, feathered and finned as well as […]
Art walk book signing with Callan Wink
Livingston author and fly-fishing guide Callan Wink visits Elk River Books during the downtown Livingston art walk on Friday, August 19, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. to sign copies of his new short-story collection, Dog Run Moon. Called “an excellent first book of stories,” by the New York Times, with comparisons to Tom McGuane, Joy […]
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 […]
Richard Wheeler brings vaudeville to the Wild West
Livingston author Richard S. Wheeler visit Elk River Books on Thursday, January 21 for a free reading from his latest novel, Anything Goes. In past novels, he has written about the West from every imaginable angle—from copper barons to mountain men, from Lewis and Clark to the San Francisco earthquake. With his newest, he takes […]
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 […]
Vagabond Song by Marc Beaudin
Elk River Books enters the world of publishing with the release of Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals by Marc Beaudin. The publication will be celebrated with a free reading and reception on Thursday, September 3, 2015, at Elk River Books, 120 N. Main St. in downtown Livingston. The event begins at 7 p.m. […]
Trout Fishing in Livingston
Brautigan Writings Get Theatrical Treatment The Caldera Theatre Company and Elk River Arts & Lectures present Trout Fishing in Livingston: A Theatrical Homage to the Writings of Richard Brautigan as part of the Last Best Fest arts festival. Performances will be held Saturday, September 6 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30) and Sunday, September […]
