RICK BASS
Monday, July 28 at 7:30 p.m.

We are most delighted to have back over this way, from the beautiful, rugged corner of Montana that holds the Yaak Valley, one of this country's most acclaimed writers, Rick Bass. He makes this welcome return, as he has for the better part of two decades now, for an extraordinary series of works of both fiction and nonfiction. Tonight is occasioned by his newest book, one of the latter, Why I Came West (Houghton Mifflin). "A nuanced blend of autobiography and environmental advocacy by the well-known novelist and short-story writer. Bass laments that the hard work of saving his home turf, the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana, has kept him from novel and short-story writing ... A welcome summation of Bass's work to date and a call for action." - Kirkus Reviews. "No writer has done a better job both accommodating his art and defending the wilderness around him than Rick Bass. Why I Came West is a generous accounting of the rewards and the price, often spiritual, of that endless battle. Bass is a hero in the American West, and we're all lucky he came." - Doug Peacock.

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