Upcoming. Upstanding. Upbringing.
Monday, August 23rd. 7pm. Rick Bass reads from and signs his new novel, Nashville Chrome.
Rick Bass’s fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Most recently, his memoir Why I Came West was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award
Friday, September 10th. 7pm. Michael Earl Craig reads from and signs his new book of poetry, Thin Kimono.
Michael Earl Craig is the author of three collections of poetry: Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010), Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006) and Can You Relax in My House (2002, Fence Books). He received a BA in English Literature from the University of Montana, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts. His poems have been published in various print and online journals, including Provincetown Arts, The Iowa Review, The Believer, HoboEye, Octopus Magazine, Fence, jubilat, and Denver Quarterly, as well as anthologized in Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems (Verse Press, 2004) and Poems About Horses (Everyman’s Library Pocket Series, 2009). He lives in Livingston, Montana, where is a Certified Journeyman Farrier, shoeing horses for a living.
Tuesday, September 14th, David M. Emmons, reads from and takes questions on Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845-1910. 7pm. 
David Emmons was born and raised on the edge of Denver’s Little Italy, the son of distinctly working-class parents, neither of whom–and contrary to expectations–was of Irish descent. Emmons received his degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His Ph.D. was directed by Robert Athearn and was later published as Garden in the Grasslands: The Boomer Literature of the Central Plains (1969). In 1967 he joined the History Department at the University of Montana and is now Professor Emeritus of History. In 1989 Emmons published his second book, The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875–1925. This book was awarded an honorable mention for the James S. Donnelly Award of the American Conference of Irish Studies and won the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Award, and the Robert G. Athearn Award given by the Western History Association. This last honor would undoubtedly have stunned the man after whom it was named. The book is now in its seventh printing. Beyond the America Pale extends some of the arguments Emmons made in The Butte Irish. Dave lives with his wife Caroline along Rattlesnake Creek just north of downtown Missoula, Montana, and 120 miles northwest and downstream of Butte, the capital of western America’s “Irish Empire.”
