Thank you to everyone who turned out for the Wednesday Crosscurrents event featuring Sherry Simpson and Christine Byl—we were treated to a fascinating conversation on the topic of Essaying Alaska: Beyond Images of the Last Frontier and what it means to write authentically about this place we love and call home. Special thanks to our
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Welcome to the last August round-up! Fall is definitely approaching. If you weren’t one of the 30 people at the 49 Writers Joe McGinniss reading at Metro Music and Books last night (see our photo, above), you missed out some great dialogue with a nonfiction master: On Alaska: “I always wanted to come back.” On
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Joe McGinniss and I each came to Alaska in the late 1970s. Like many, I came on a bit of a lark, for a teaching adventure. Like many, I stayed. Alaska became my Alaska. In many ways, we grew up together. McGinniss, who’d come to research a book, had even less intention of staying than
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The Fall Literary Season is launching — grab a seat and get on board. (Yes, the type above is small, but just had to show off this fantastic flyer which you’ll be seeing around town, designed for us by fantastic volunteer Mariah Oxford, just one of many 49ers we couldn’t live without.)First up: It’s your
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