Tuesday, Oct. 14: UM alum Rachel Toor comes to Missoula for a reading and signing of her new memoir, Personal Record: A Love Affair With Running (Univ. of Neb. Press; $24.95). 7:30 pm.
Read Sherry Devlin’s Missoulian spotlight. And the Indy review.
Saturday, Oct. 18: We welcome Missoula novelist David Allan Cates, for a reading and signing of his new novel, Freeman Walker (Unbridled; $25.95). 7 pm.
Read the Missoulian’s feature on Freeman Walker.
“Resonating with hints of Dickens (an orphan boy making his way in London) and Faulkner (his mother was a slave in the American south, his father the slave-owner who gave the boy his freedom and shipped him off to school in England), Freeman Walker is embedded in American history and brilliantly told in a voice which is idiomatic, articulate and profoundly straightforward. David Allan Cates gives us a vivid story about complex characters, a novel of gripping consequence. Cates is to be thanked and congratulated.”
— William Kittredge
David Allan Cates is the author of two previous novels, Hunger in America, a New York Times Notable Book, and X out of Wonderland, a Montana Book Award Honor Book. Cates lives in Missoula and reads at Shakespeare & Co. Saturday, Oct. 18th, at 7:30 pm.
Jenny Shank at NewWest reviews Rachel Toor’s Personal Record: A Love Affair With Running (Univ. of Neb. Press; $24.95).
Join us for a reading and signing with Rachel next Tuesday, Oct. 14th, at 7:30 pm.
A slide presentation, discussion, and book signing with award-winning naturalist Tim Gallagher, author of The Grail Bird and Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century. 4 pm.
“Falcon Fever is the most delightful and fascinating magpie of a memoir, told with panache, verve, and honesty. I recommend it to anyone interested in birds, especially those who are passionate about hawks and falconry.”
– Tony Huston, screenwriter and falconer
“The ideal tonic to reinvigorate a nation distracted by laptops from its love for its natural heritage.”
– Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
We have books at the Hempfest today.
The Hempfest is, year in and year out, Missoula’s biggest festival.
Check it out!
UM grad, author (The Pig & I, Admissions Confidential), and distance runner Rachel Toor reads here Tuesday, October 14th, at 7:30 pm. Rachel’s new book is Personal Record: A Love Affair With Running (Univ. of Neb. Pr., $24.95).
Please join us Thursday, September 25th, at 4 pm, as we welcome Tim Gallagher, author of the new book Falcon Fever and also The Grail Bird (winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America’s Best Book Award for 2005).
“She’s not just fartin’ around.”
I think that means he liked it.
[Man strolls in yammering LOUDLY on cell phone]: “We’re going to have a meeting of the Jewish Defense League when I get back … because Obama was in Germany yesterday and he looked like Hitler … he’s going to exterminate the Jews … Oh, I don’t think he’ll win … but he’s as dangerous as Hitler .. he’s –”
Me: Hey! Can it. No cellphones in here.
Regarding the “plethora of problems” facing the world these days, Hawken notes that they “seem insoluble because of how they are managed - with ideological, top-down, oligarchic, militaristic management styles.” Yet the largest social organism on the planet today is the plethora of grassroots nonprofits that resembles a global mycelium: organic, transformative, linking. Hawken quotes Whitman, “I am large; I contain multitudes.” In writing this book, he opens a language of nexus, a perspective of multitudinous social change. “We” are abundant, and “we” are the new language of social organization.
To get y’all pumped for Bioneers this fall, here is Paul Hawken elucidating on his thesis for Blessed Unrest.
And a website: http://www.blessedunrest.com/
