The Mountain and the Fathers is on this week’s bestseller list at The Country Bookshelf, one of the great independent bookstores in the West!
The Mountain and the Fathers is on this week’s bestseller list at The Country Bookshelf, one of the great independent bookstores in the West!
Giveaway ends July 10, 2012.
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One week left to enter the Goodreads giveaway for a signed copy of The Mountain and the Fathers!
Giveaway ends July 10, 2012.
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at Goodreads.
Some kind words from environmental writer and all-around literary superstar David Gessner today, over at the blog he shares with Bill Roorbach, Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour. Thanks, David!
No one combines the personal and the natural better than Joe Wilkins. He’s a hero of mine and will be your hero, too, if you read his new memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, just out from Counterpoint.
I’ll be on the road this late summer and fall, reading from The Mountain and the Fathers and Killing the Murnion Dogs.
The Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, Montana
7:00 pm, Tuesday, July 17
Barnes & Noble, Billings, Montana
7:30 pm, Thursday, July 19
Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane, Washington
2:00 pm, Saturday, July 21
Montana Festival of the Book, Missoula, Montana
October 4-6
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Tuesday, October 16
Elk River Books, Livingston, Montana
Thursday, October 17
High Plains Book Fest, Billings Montana
October 18-19
Giveaway ends July 10, 2012.
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Thanks to Scott Gast for the great interview about The Mountains and the Fathers. Here’s a short excerpt:
In the book’s prologue, you write, “In story we learn to live like human beings in the dark houses of our bodies.” I love that line—it’s the kind of sentence I’m tempted to write down, tear from my notebook, and pin on the wall. Can you say a bit about the power of story in your life?
My grandfather was a wonderful teller of tales. After Sunday dinner we’d all sit in the front room and read and talk until late. And no matter the topic at hand, my grandfather had a story for it, a story that deepened or turned or somehow complicated the conversation. There were seldom any morals, seldom any clear arguments or ideas. Yet the stories mattered; they were full of things to think on, to wonder at and hold close. And I did. I carried and still carry my grandfather’s stories.
My essay “All Apologies” is featured in the Spring 2012 issue of The Southern Review, which is, for my money, one of the best literary magazines in the country. Poetry Editor Jessica Faust had this to say about my essay:
Joe Wilkins, who sometimes contributes poetry to our pages, but this time has provided us with an honest and touching essay, “All Apologies,” writes about his relationship in high school with a friend named Justin, whose troubled family life eventually pushed him out town. The essay brilliantly captures the complexity of this moment in adolescence while also seamlessly weaving in the contemporary details of the era, grounded in Kurt Cobain’s lyrics, the words of another troubled soul whose genius would come to a tragic, too-soon close.
My poem “Anyone who has eyes for seeing should see” is up in the latest issue of the wonderful Mid-American Review, along with great new work by Claire McQuerry and Michael Robins.
Some good words on The Mountain and the Fathers from The Scapper Poet!