A review of ‘American Copper’ by Shann Ray.
Melissa Mylchreest
Posted inArticles
Why homes are lost to wildfire
This Forest Service expert says it’s as much a sociopolitical problem as it is physical.
Posted inOctober 15, 2012: Are you a local?
The wild without and within: A review of Wilderness
Wilderness pulls no punches. The novel’s descriptions are so visceral, the main character’s struggles so gut wrenching, that it demands an equally full-bodied response from its reader. Within the book’s pages are violence, yes, and death, sickness and guilt –– all the hard things. But the most powerfully moving moments are those in which dark […]
Posted inMay 10, 2010: The Secret Lives of River Guides
Ghosts of Wyoming: A haunted past and present
Ghosts of WyomingAlyson Hagy170 pages, softcover: $15.Graywolf Press, 2010. Reading Alyson Hagy’s new collection of short stories, Ghosts of Wyoming, is a bit like poring over a stranger’s photo album, some pictures grayed and dusty, the images gone faint, others recent and still vivid. Each deft vignette contains its own bounded narrative, but taken together, […]
Posted inFebruary 1, 2010: 'The environment ... is where we live'
Finding freedom in Yosemite
GlorylandShelton Johnson278 pages, hardcover: $25.Sierra Club Books, 2009. Like its protagonist, Gloryland is a medley. In a novel that is part memoir, part historical fiction, and part poetry, Shelton Johnson tells the story of Elijah Yancy, a young man with African, Seminole and Cherokee bloodlines. Born in South Carolina on Emancipation Day, 1863, Yancy is […]