
The Traveling Feast, by Rick Bass
Award-winning Montana author Rick Bass will read from his newest book, The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes, on Tuesday, June 5 at Elk River Books in Livingston. In Traveling Feast, Bass embarks on an epic trek across America and overseas to thank the writers who influenced his life […]

Brooke Williams’ Open Midnight
Writer and environmentalist Brooke Williams will read from his new memoir, Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet, at Elk River Books on Tuesday, July 18. The book weaves together parallel stories of Williams’ year alone “ground truthing backcountry maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather who, in 1863, made his way with […]

Rick Bass headlines Elk River Books’ fifth anniversary festivities
Elk River Books will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a party and repeat performance from its grand opening, hosting author Rick Bass for a reading of his latest work on Wednesday, May 25. Bass is the author of nearly 30 books of environmental essays, novels and short fiction. He has received O. Henry Awards, numerous […]

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: ‘Painted Horses’ by Malcolm Brooks
Missoula author Malcolm Brooks will read from his first novel, Painted Horses, at Elk River Books, 120 N. Main St., on Wednesday, August 27 at 7 p.m. Painted Horses is being received with great critical acclaim. It tells the story of a young woman archaeologist in 1950s Montana: “Reminiscent of the work of Wallace Stegner, […]