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November 13, 2017
In a break from covering the news, our annual Books & Authors special issue offers perspective by taking a look at the complicated West through a different lens: literature. Essays, excerpts, author profiles, Q&As and book reviews tackle grief, oddities and hard questions.
Feature
Current
HCN.org news in brief.
Border Patrol agent-turned-author Francisco Cantú examines his experiences.
Esther Belin is trying to shape a uniquely Navajo way of writing.
Tommy Pico merges natural and personal history of the arid West from Brooklyn, New York.
In no-longer-so-imaginary future, parents and children are separated at the border.
Editor's Note
Western authors offer different lenses through which to understand our region.
Essays
Bell Prize winner: Through the trials of life, a young writer finds she’s fighting for our spirit.
2017 Bell Prize runner-up: A writer reflects on salmon as symbol.
What’s the meaning of lugging literature into the wild?
Two writers contemplate their last moments.
Perspective
Western writers contemplate roaming texts and landscapes.
Conversation
Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel tells the story of a tough teenage girl’s survival.
Do women write differently about wilderness?
Book Reviews
An artist portrays the greens of mountain lakes and oranges of sandstone arches.
A sampling of the season’s best new reads.
A selection of small publishers from around the region.
Belle Turnbull found transcendence in the Colorado Rockies.
A new book foretells America’s next devastating earthquake.
Two authors imagine societies with draconian policies against women.
A new book seeks answers about the future of the iconic fish.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem around the region.
Dear Friends
Visits from family, new visitors and saying farewell to old friends.
Today's Featured Stories
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- WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Winter Wildlands Alliance seeks an experienced and highly motivated individual to lead and manage the organization as Executive...
- The San Juan Mountains Association is seeking a visionary leader to spearhead its public lands stewardship program in southwest Colorado. For a detailed job description...
- The Cascade Forest Conservancy seeks a passionate ED to lead our forest protection, conservation, education, and advocacy programs.
- Mountain Pursuit is a new, bold, innovative, western states, hunting advocacy nonprofit headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming. We need a courageous, hard working, passionate Executive Director...
- The Draper Natural History Museum (DNHM) at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center of the West in Cody, WY, invites applications for the Willis McDonald, IV...
- Couple seeks quiet, private, off-grid acreage in area with no/low cell phone service and no/low snowfall. Conservation/bordering public lands a plus. CA, OR, WA, ID,...
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- Former northern Sierra winery, with 2208 sq.ft. commercial building, big lot, room to expand.
- The dZi Foundation is seeking a FT Communications Associate with a passion for Nepal to join our team in Ridgway, Colorado. Visit dzi.org/careers.
- Available now for site conservator, property manager. View resume at http://skills.ojaidigital.net.
- Stellar seed-saving NGO is available to serious partner. Package must include financial support. Details: http://seeds.ojaidigital.net.
- 1400 sf of habitable space in a custom-designed eco-home created and completed by a published L.A. architect in 1997-99. Nestled within its own 80-acre mountain...
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