Tom Kizzia’s long-awaited book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier, is now in bookstores! You can read an excerpt here on the Anchorage Daily News website and check out Jeremy Pataky’s July 16 interview with Tom Kizzia on this blog. There are several upcoming opportunities to learn more […]
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Purely Alaska is an anthology of 32 stories from diverse areas of Alaska. These stories are unique because most are told by the Alaskans who experienced them. An Inupiaq elder recalls a reindeer drive across northern Alaska in the 1930s during which she gave birth to two children and buried one. A young man recalls
In Boom Town Boy, Jack de Yonge delivers a witty and outspoken coming-of-age memoir. Born on Independence Day in Fairbanks, 1934, before Alaska became a state, de Yonge grows up under the influence of an idealistic German-Dutch father and pragmatic Irish mother. When the boy’s worm-picking job fails to bring in enough money to help
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Continuing our series of 49 Writers Publisher Interviews, we check in with Kent Sturgis, president and publisher of Epicenter Press, Inc. Sturgis is a two-term former president of the Independent Book Publishers Association, a national trade organization. He was born and raised in Fairbanks, where he edited the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner during the pipeline boom.
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