Is Alaska really a big small town, as claimed by our governor and her party as they stump for a four-year stint in Washington? Who can argue the appeal of a small town, with its good and honest and hard-working people? Quintessential America. John McCain invoked it yesterday, as Wall Street was collapsing around its […]
Alaskans are the first to complain when people Outside don’t “get it right” about our state. But there’s a lot more than geography at stake as the line between fact and fiction blurs. We used to think we knew. Books from reputable publishers, newspapers (other than tabloids), and stuff filed as non-fiction in the library
Plenty again to round up this week. First, go to 49 Writers, No Moose, where blooger Andromeda Romano-Lax is launching the Equinox Book Club. John Straley’s The Big Both Ways is the club’s first pick. No long-term commitment, and you’ve got till November to read the first book. Mark your calendars for Kaylene Johnson, signing
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One last reminder: on Thursday, LIVING WITH WILDNESS author Bill Sherwonit will be at Title Wave at 7 PM. On Friday, many contributors to CROSSCURRENTS NORTH will be at the Anchorage Museum: Marybeth Holleman, Anne Coray, Mike Burwell, Ann Dixon, Jo Going, Kaylene Johnson, Steve Kahn, Joan Kane, Buffy McKay, Sue Pope, Libby Roderick, Eva
At 49 Writers, No Moose, Andromeda Romano-Lax is sponsoring a contest for readers who post on Alaskan books that hold special meaning for them. Borrowing a phrase from blogger Patrick Brown, reported in Paper Cuts, which book got you hooked on Alaska and the North? For me, it was Mrs. Mike, which I recently learned
Anne Coray and Marybeth Holleman agreed to take turns answering questions about their environmentally-focused anthology, new from University of Alaska Press. They have lots of events set up, not only in Anchorage, but across the state. (See bottom for details.) As we all know, Alaska is big in the news right now. There couldn’t be
With no end in sight for the Sarah-frenzy, it’s fascinating how much of the dialogue swirls around issues of language and literacy. This campaign offers so many teachable moments on audience and rhetoric that it almost makes me wish I was back in the classroom. Depending on whom you ask, it’s okay to talk lipstick
Thanks to Rebecca, Julie D., Deb and others for sharing this. I’ll send you over to Deb Vanasse’s ALASKAN AUTHORS blog to check out this great opportunity, and while you’re there you can see what a good job she is doing helping us give Alaska books a bigger voice in the blogosphere.
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Alaska has spawned some fine science and nature writers. I hope we’ll be reading new essays by some of them in response to a joint call for manuscripts by Penguin Classics and the Union of Concerned Scientists. The online collection, Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming, is slated for publication in 2009. From all
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I sat down with Anchorage nature writer Bill Sherwonit at a local coffee shop a few weeks ago. He was just back from a 10-day solo trip in the Brooks Range, during which his tarp and tent had been “investigated” by an unseen grizzly — just one detail on an sometimes quiet and contemplative, sometimes
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