Author profile of Japanese-American Lily Havey.
People & Places
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Encouraging more ‘nerds of color’
A conversation with L.A. writer Jervey Tervalon.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
How my Californian father adapted to Utah
He found solace in growing fruit trees, but never quite made the Beehive state his home.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Masters of Dig: A tour of authorial abodes
Visiting the homes of my favorite writers
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
But wait, there’s more
Lit-touring in California and beyond.
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Rural and small town employment still lags
Metro areas are bouncing back from the Great Recession more quickly.
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
Metamorphosis in Winnemucca
The Days Of Anna MadrigalArmistead Maupin288 pages, hardcover:$26.99. Harper Collins, 2014. California author Armistead Maupin has returned with the ninth and final volume in his much-loved Tales of the City series. Maupin, who has long refused to be pigeonholed as a “gay writer,” writes about contemporary San Francisco and the love lives of both gays […]
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
Reinventing the Sundance Kid
Sundance: A NovelDavid Fuller352 pages, hardcover: $27.95.Riverhead, 2014. What if an Old West legend left the outlaw life behind to embark on a mission to find his lost love? David Fuller’s second novel recasts the fate of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known to history and movie fans as the Sundance Kid, who allegedly perished along […]
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In an era of light pollution, the darkest skies in the West
Here are some of the region’s best stargazing spots.
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Photographing migrant foragers
Eirik Johnson’s photographs document the life and landscape of the Pacific Northwest, where he lives. He’s been featured on National Public Radio and in Orion and Audubon Magazine, among others. Johnson’s series of images on the region’s logging industry, Sawdust Mountain, was recently published by the Aperture Foundation. High Country News assistant designer Andrew Cullen, […]
Posted inDecember 12, 2011: Out on a limb
The man beneath the hat: Ken Salazar’s search for middle ground
Nearly every story about Ken Salazar mentions his cowboy hat. It’s hard not to; there aren’t a lot of politicians or bureaucrats — particularly Democrats — in D.C. who can get away with wearing one and not come off as a wannabe. Today, though, Salazar’s white hat and blue, pearl-buttoned ranch shirt fit right in. […]
Posted inDecember 20, 2010: California Dreamin'
California’s Tangled Water Politics
The Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta, formed where the two rivers meet in California’s Central Valley before flowing into San Francisco Bay, is the largest estuary on the entire West Coast of the Americas. But much of the Delta is a remote, labyrinthine wateriness that, for most people, exists only in the mind, wrapped in […]
Posted inApril 12, 2010: The Butterfly Sting
The Butterfly Sting
How a federal wildlife agent brought down one of the world’s most notorious insect thieves.
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Colorado River blues
Photos and audio stories of communities that live along the troubled Colorado River.
Posted inMarch 16, 2009: Innovate
Tarp Nation
Squatter villages arise from the ashes of the West’s booms and busts
Posted inJanuary 19, 2009: Blood Quantum
Blood Quantum
A complicated system that determines tribal membership threatens the future of American Indians
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Surviving a friend’s suicide
‘I know something about black holes now—because there was one inside of him.’
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The single women who homesteaded the West
The women who settled in the Old West defy stereotypes.
Posted inMay 29, 2006: 'Clinging Hopelessly to the Past'
Dust and Snow
High in the snowy San Juan Mountains, tiny particles have big implications