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Copper Sky, by Milana Marsenich, Open Books, 2017. 336 pages, $16.95. Milana Marsenich gets a lot of things right in “Copper Sky,” her debut novel about Butte in the days of the Copper Kings. (more…) Continue Reading →
Who would have imagined that murder and mayhem could be so much fun? In “Montana Noir,” a new collection of hardboiled short stories, 14 writers jump with evident joy into tales teeming with dead bodies, guns, strippers, booze, meth, weed and problematic stores of cash. And they take us to unexpected places, from the rough parts of Great Falls to a depressing corner of Billings Heights, from the loneliest stretches of the Hi-Line’s Highway 2 to the vomit-stained sidewalk in front of the Party Palace in Butte. (more…) Continue Reading →
Last weekend at Second Edition Books, a great used-book store in Uptown Butte, I purchased a copy of “The Vigilantes of Montana” by Prof. Thomas J. Dimsdale. It’s an odd softcover edition, published in 1937 by McKee Printing Co. in Butte, with a cartoon-like illustration on the front cover. I was glad to have found such an unusual edition of a Montana classic. (more…) Continue Reading →
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 →
