Sometimes the book gods smile down on me. I attended a book sale at the Moorhead Public Library and came away with one prize that I’ve been wanting for some time. While taking a quick second pass I spotted this gem unnoticed on the first: The Last Best Place - A Montana Anthology. I’ve considered ordering this online as a used book but you then take a chance with quality. Here for a buck (soft cover price) I purchased my clean copy of almost 1200 pages of writing. Why am I excited about it? Montana has produced so much good literature that interests me. I don’t know whether or not it’s because of the English department at the university in Missoula, but some of these authors came out of that program.
A Great Plains Reader contains examples and excerpts of writing about just that - the great plains.
The Only Game in Town was put together by David Remnick of sports articles that have appeared in “The New Yorker.” Flipping through it makes me want to get to it.
Barbara Tuchman took her place as a serious historian and in this one Practicing History tells about some of her ideas in writing.
I never met Tony Hillerman, but he had made his name as a novelist in the southwest. Pretty down-to-earth stuff as I read it. We have met his daughter Anne, a writer, too, and she certainly was down-to-earth.
Garrison Keillor has always been a favorite of mine, in fact, we’ve attended three of his concerts. This book tells his story.
A miscellany of three other books rounds out my $13 purchase. Boxes of books at the sale haven’t even been put on the tables, yet. I’m going back.
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