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Montana calls to storytellers: The cold clear waters of its rivers have carried the voices of its inhabitants from time immemorial, says Debra Magpie Earling, one of its writers. Here, she recommends her favorites.
Following here is an assignment: Find some object you hold near and dear. Something that can leap you into a backward narrative. Something to hold you as a memoir writer, going back, reflecting back. That thing, you can hold or touch. You find meaning in it. And, that object holds stories. Try and do this
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July 18, 2021
Book Review
Crumley, James (1996). Bordersnakes.
James Crumley (1939-2008) has been described by Maxim Jakubowsky as “one of modern crime writing’s best practitioners” and anyone who has read a selection of his work will probably agree. He is another of those Texas writers who moved to Montana, and worked at the University of Montana in the English faculty.
His writing is driven, sometimes violent, and always descriptive of a hard life. The author was profligate with his own living practices – cocaine six days a week, eating five times a day and consuming a bottle of whiskey a day. His characters exhibit much of the same. Crumley at his best presents his material as a real road warrior, Hunter S. Thompson style.