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Montana Quarterly: Counting our blessings

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Editor’s note: This has been updated to cover a lamentable oversight. Dear readers, consider this a public service announcement. If you are not a subscriber to the Montana Quarterly, or if, God forbid, you have never even looked at a copy of that fine magazine, here’s what you should do: run out right now and buy the winter edition. It’s available at a lot of stores, including all the Albertsons stores, as far as I know. The Montana Quarterly is always good, but this winter edition is uncommonly good, showcasing some of the MQ’s best writers doing what they do best. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Last Best Blog, Craig Lancaster, John Clayton, John Warner, Montana Quarterly, Scott McMillion, Sid Gustafson

Montana Quarterly publishes ‘best-of’ collection

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Here’s something I should have brought to your attention a bit earlier. But better late than never. The Montana Quarterly, the Livingston-based magazine that recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, has published a book of collected pieces under the title, “Montana, Warts and All,” which also happens to be the magazine’s motto. Here’s the official blurb for the book: “Elegant. Literate. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Last Best Blog, Alan Kesselheim, Craig Lancaster, Jeff Hull, Jeff Welsch, John Clayton, Montana Quarterly, Scott McMillion

Last Best News magnate is interviewee for a change

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Way back in 2005, I appeared in a panel discussion on blogging at the Festival of the Book in Missoula. Others on the panel were John Clayton, of Red Lodge, and Patia Stephens and Courtney Lowery, both of Missoula. Courtney, now Lowery Cowgill, was then working for NewWest, a pioneer in digital journalism. The site, alas, did not survive, but while it lasted Courtney was its animating spirt and consistently its best writer. She is now working on a farm, raising children and somehow serving as managing editor of PBS MediaShift, in which role she conducted an email interview with me about Last Best News. The result was posted this morning. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Last Best Blog, Courtney Lowery Cowgill, John Clayton, NewWest, Patia Stephens, PBS MediaShift