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By Elk River Books on October 9, 2017
Please join us as we host the Huffington Post and Highline magazine’s “Listen to America” bus tour in Livingston: Why is it so hard for non-Montanans to get Montana right? Why does the conversation so often devolve into cheap romanticization and gauzy stereotyping, cowboy culture and regressive politics? Panelists include three Livingston writers: Seabring Davis, […]
Posted in Events | Tagged Highline magazine, Huffington Post, Jamie Harrison, Listen to America, Seabring Davis, Walter Kirn |
By Elk River Books on April 30, 2016
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 […]
Posted in Ruminations | Tagged Amanda Fortini, Andrea Peacock, Dennis Quaid, Doug Peacock, Jeff Bridges, Jim Harrison, Livingston, Marc Beaudin, Margot Kidder, Maryanne Vollers, Max Hjortsberg, Michael Earl Craig, Michael Keaton, Peter Bowen, Peter Fonda, Richard Brautigan, Russell Chatham, Sam Peckinpah, Scott McMillion, Tim Cahill, Tom Brokow, Tom McGuane, Walter Kirn, Warren Oates, William "Gatz" Hjortsberg |
By Elk River Books on August 4, 2015
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. […]
Posted in Events | Tagged books, Edd Enders, Livingston, Marc Beaudin, memoir, Montana, Poetry, Rhonda Peterson, travel, Vagabond Song, Walter Kirn, William Heyen, William Hjortsberg |
By Elk River Books on March 22, 2014
Livingston author Walter Kirn will give a free reading from his latest work of nonfiction, Blood Will Out, on Thursday, April 24. “In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage—set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his […]
Posted in Events | Tagged Blood Will Out, Clark Rockefeller, Lost in the Meritocracy, Stephen Colbert, Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, Walter Kirn |