Literature

“This is a special book about a special place in the West.” —Tulsa World

“If you love the great empty silent beauty of the Four Corners country you shouldn’t miss taking this trip with John Murray—a talented writer.”
—Tony Hillerman

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Another Country: Encounters With the Red Rock Desert

“One of the very best writers to deal with the American West.”
—Washington Post Book World

“Abbey is a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.”
—Houston Chronicle

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Black Sun: A Novel

The three pieces in this collection … have the quality all great stories have. They’re old-fashioned yarns, the kind that grab the reader, make him listen to the voices, hold him to the end and then linger in his consciousness. —Chicago Tribune

David Quammen is the author of "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin," "The Flight of the Iguana," "Song of the Dodo," and "The Boilerplate Rhino."

Western States Book Award Winner
Colorado Book Award Winner
National Book Award Finalist
Like few American writers, Gilfillan has a deep feeling for and understanding of the western grasslands. He brings both dignity and a deep historical sense to our sometimes forgotten heartland.

“Prose doesn’t get any better than this.” —Tom McGuane

The fourteen personal essays in this book center on places the author has lived, worked, and walked, and they express the many dimensions we find in living places: the appreciation, wonder, paradox, and problems that arise from them—their essence, fullness, history, and future. At the same time this work illuminates Condon's conviction that relationships with the natural world have somehow redeemed him and made his life possible and rich.“Phil Condon is a quietly lyrical writer, whose truths well up from these pages as if from a still pool, surprising you with their depth.” —Robert Finch, author of "Death of a Hornet"

"There is an enlightened melancholy to his prose, reminding me of a full moon breaking through on a very cloudy night."—Terry Tempest Williams, author of "The Open Space of Democracy" and "Red"