JENNIFER CAREY
Discussion & Signing
Tuesday, Nov 10th
7:00 pm
F&F Downtown
WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT GRANITE?
Even if they don't know much about rocks, most folks can name at least one place they have encountered granite. In everyday life you'll find countertops, headstones, flooring--even whole buildings made of granite. In the natural world it forms random boulders in fields and many of the planet's loftiest peaks. Commonness aside, no two granites are alike; it is a mysterious rock that crystallizes from magma miles and miles below the surface, far beyond the reach of human observation
This lecture series, "Put Your Writing to Work",
will feature three different professionals who use writing in their
various careers. The lectures will take place on the second Thursdays
of October, November, and December.
The talk on November 12th will feature Penny Orwick, a technical writer. Penny is a programmer and writer at Steyer Associates.
Join us as she talks about his career in writing!
As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series 2009, Award-winning author Robert Boswell will give a craft talk on the art of fiction writing Friday, Nov. 13, 1 - 2 p.m. at the North Underground Lecture Hall, University of Montana. Robert Boswell
will also read from his recent work and sign books Friday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m. at the Dell Brown Room, Turner Hall of the University of Montana.
More on Robert Boswell. . .
Robert Boswell is the author of eleven books, including The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a 2009 story collection with Graywolf Press. His novels include Century's Son, American Owned Love, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, and Crooked Hearts. His other story collections are Living to Be 100 and Dancing in the Movies. Boswell has two nonfiction books: The Half-Known World, a book on the craft of writing, and What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak, a book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel). His cyberpunk novel Virtual Death (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron) was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His play Tongues
won the John Gassner Prize. He has received two National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of
Letters Award for Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, and the Evil
Companions Award. He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the
University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson. He can be found
online at www.robertboswell.com
Timothy Egan
Reading & Signing
Wednesday, November 18th 7:00 pm
THE BIG BURN
In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land.
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in an eyeblink. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men -- college boys, day-workers, immigrants from mining camps -- to fight the fires. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them.
Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, through the eyes of the people who lived it. Equally dramatic, though, is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. The robber barons fought him and the rangers charged with protecting the reserves, but even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by those same rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
THE BIG BURN tells an epic story, paints a moving portrait of the people who lived it, and offers a critical cautionary tale for our time.
JANICE MINEER
Gingerbread Houses and Signing
GINGERBREAD FROM THE HEART
1:30 pm
F&F Downtown
TOM RAU
Signing
THE CROW'S PHILOSOPHY
4:00 to 5:30 pm
F&F On Campus
FATHER JIM HOGAN
Signing
YES WE ARE!
5:00 to 7:00 pm
F&F Downtown
As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series 2009, award-winning fiction writer and oral historian Peter Orner will read from his recent work and sign books Friday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m. at the Dell Brown Room, Turner Hall of the University of Montana
More about Peter Orner. . .
Peter Orner is the author of the novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown, 2006--a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and the story collection, Esther Stories
(Houghton Mifflin, 2001--awarded the Rome Prize from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters and the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction).
A film version of one of Orner's stories, The Raft, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner. A book of oral histories, edited by Orner, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, was published in 2008 by McSweeneys for the Voice of Witness Series. For more information, go to voiceofwitness.org. Orner's stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and the Pushcart Prize Annual.
Orner has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan
Foundations. Currently, Orner is an associate professor at San
Francisco State University. He can be found online at www.peterorner.net
Heidi Anderson
Signing
GOODNIGHT TINY MOUSE
11:00 to 1:00
F&F Downtown
BIPIN PATEL
Signing
TIPU'S TIGER RECIPE BOOK
1:00 to 3:00 pm
F&F Downtown
ANA GREER
Signing
JUST PERFECT
2:00 to 4:00 pm
F&F Downtown
DORIS PULIS
Signing
HOW IT LOOKS GOING BACK
1:00 to 3:00 pm
F&F Downtown
ANNIE HANSHEW
Presentation & Signing
BORDER TO BORDER:
HISTORIC QUILTS AND QUILTMAKERS OF MONTANA
7:00 pm
F&F Downtown
This lecture series, "Put Your Writing to Work",
will feature three different professionals who use writing in their
various careers. The lectures will take place on the second Thursdays
of October, November, and December.
The talk on December 10th will feature Joyce Brusin, who is a prominent freelancer in the Missoula area. Join her as she talks about her career in writing!
Read more on Joyce's description of her work:
A full-time freelancer, I specialize in researching, writing, and
editing materials for medical publishers and Continuing Medical
Education (CME) providers. I also research, write, and edit consumer
health education materials. I take pride in making dense scientific
material readable and interesting, and providing accurate and timely
information that professionals and consumers can put to immediate use.
I also provide research, writing, editing, proofreading, and indexing
services to general interest and scholarly publishers.
I am a published essayist, features writer, and book reviewer who
freelanced part-time for many years before starting my own freelance
writing and editing business.
