I was recently asked by a community group that will be interviewing Billings City Council candidates if I had any questions for the candidates. My suggestion wasn’t really a question, it was this: “Name your three favorite books.” (more…) Continue Reading →
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Reading Montana
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Editor’s note: When this Lay of the Land series started, I explained how it came into being by accident, after several people sent me unsolicited essays. Now, having published 16 of these pieces, all of them looking at life in Montana, we have come to the end of the twice-a-month series. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Lay of the Land, A.B. Guthrie, Plenty Coups, The Big Sky, University of Montana
Book Review: Welcome, Lola, to the ranks of Montana mysteries
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Montana, by Gwen Florio, The Permanent Press, 2013. 256 pages, $28. It appears that Lola Wicks is going to become a familiar character in this part of the world, and that the corpses are going to keep piling up. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, A.B. Guthrie, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Dashiell Hammett, Gwen Florio, James Lee Burke, Jon Jackson, Richard Hugo
History in our hands, in our hearts
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On a bookshelf above my desk, Thomas Hickey looks down at me every day with his perpetual expression of forlorn longing. All I know of Mr. Hickey is that he lived at 14 Patrick Street, Fermoy, and that he was 45 years old when he died on Oct. 28, 1942. (more…) Continue Reading →