Registration is open, but limited to fifty, for the third annual North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway, May 30-June 2, 2012. I’ll be there, as will other Alaskan writers Seth Kantner, Kim Heacox, Deb Vanasse, John Straley, Nick Jans, Dan Henry, David Hunsaker, and Jeff Brady. This year’s keynote speaker is New York-based screenwriter Scott Silver […]
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The other night I pitched the idea to my book club: Could we read an Alaska book for our next meeting, in October? They didn’t yet know, and perhaps some of our readers don’t either, but October will usher in our very first Alaska Book Week, a time to celebrate books by Alaskans or about
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We might still be waiting for snow here in Anchorage, but that’s not stopping the 2009 Mushing History Conference, bringing together authors, historians, researchers, writers, veteran mushers and supporters of the colorful history of sled dog travel. In addition to several well-known mushers, speakers and presenters will include Jane Haigh of Kenai, author of Gold
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In preparation for our “Ordinary Wolves” discussion, we’re running a thoughtful review of Kantner’s follow-up nonfiction book. By Amanda Coyne. Posted originally at Alaska Dispatch. Used with permission.Wallace Stegner, often hailed the dean of Western literature, would be 100 years old this week. In The New York Times, columnist Timothy Egan quotes friends of Stegner’s
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Booklist calls him “impressively fluent and probing,” an author whose “cultural insight, daring wit, and ecological vision echo those of Sherman Alexie, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Barbara Kingsolver.” “As a revelation of the devastation modern America brings to a natural lifestyle,” says Publishers Weekly of his first novel, “it’s a tour de force and may
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Today Anchorage will be hosting what may be the biggest local Obama rally yet, and today I’m letting you know that by a wide margin, you chose Seth Kantner’s ORDINARY WOLVES as the book we’d like to send Obama. I bought an autographed hardcover copy (at Title Wave, of course) and my weekend to-do list
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I’d spent the week ranting, as I often do, about the lack of book review coverage and general promotion opportunities for writers, when out comes the Anchorage Press Summer Books issue with three thoughtfully written reviews. About Kantner’s Shopping for Porcupine, an essay collection accompanied by photos, reviewer Krestia DeGeorge writes: “The writing here rings
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