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Rick Bass delivers these essays—old and new—at a deliberate pace and a careful tempo. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Alan Minskoff discuss his voice and delivery, which sound kindly and literary. Reared in Texas, Bass retains a slight twang, and he is soulful, sincere, and aspirational. A fiction writer and essayist, he is also an environmental activist, and a number of these texts center on the horrific aftermath—asbestosis and mesothelioma—of the mining that took place near his adopted home in the Yak Valley of Montana. A memorable collection. Read our review of the audiobook at our website. Published by HighBridge Audio. Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile's website. Support for AudioFile's Behind the Mic comes from HarperCollins Focus, and HarperCollins Christian Publishing, publishers of some of your favorite audiobooks and authors, including Reba McEntire, Max Lucado, Kathie Lee Gifford, Bob Goff, Lysa TerKeurst, and many more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hörns Üp 324 - ESP 25 con Rick Baker (29-10-2024) EN EL PROGRAMA DE HOY NOS VISITAN: Capsula - Spelling Love ( Electric Drinks) Stoned At Pompeii - Onyour Side Alfredo Piedrafita - Cada Noche Onza - Bajar a Segunda Addar - Gezur Haches - Somos de Hortaleza Sexplosion - Feed my Hunger ( Electric Drinks) Arde la Sangre - Tecnocracia Grapeshot - Lost My Way Death Scythe - Kukulkan Elbereth - Jarraitzale Bila Driade - 1845 Ankor - Shoganai ( Trooper Basque Ale) Cains Dinasty - Legado de sangre Sphinx - Nada es imposible Ealain - El errante Tom PLAYLIST (Spotify) del programa: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3EhvPcDzVwMOIE0Kg866gG?si=ba68ea7e79bb42d7 Este icono Portada del programa para #StonedAtPompeii Este icono son saludos por parte de los grupos a Hörns ÜP! Videos Saludos de los Grupos (YouTube) --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Síguenos en: ❗️❗️ NUEVO - Canal de Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaFJWCQJJhzZzHtuYs0i Únete al canal y compártelo entre los metalheads!!!! #hornsuppodcast https://hornsup.es Instagram: @hornsuppodcast Twitter: @HornsUp2020 YouTube: SUSCRÍBETE !!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Puedes ayudar a Horns Up como nuestros "Fans": Ander, Ricardo, Eric, Charly, Mau, Raspu, Óscar, Pedro, Juankar, Carolina, Moy A.M., Iñaki, Carlos Blasco, Valentín, Baal, José Manuel Ruiz, David García, Rick Bass Baker, Fran, Fonchi, Moy Lora, Carlos Makina, Jesús Jiménez, Esther "Impala" Miguelón, Jorge y Pablo Graciassss!! APOYA AL PROGRAMA EN ESTE ENLACE: https://www.ivoox.com/support/835002 rick@hornsup.es
Hörns Üp 324 - ESP 25 con Rick Baker (29-10-2024) EN EL PROGRAMA DE HOY NOS VISITAN: Capsula - Spelling Love ( Electric Drinks) Stoned At Pompeii - Onyour Side Alfredo Piedrafita - Cada Noche Onza - Bajar a Segunda Addar - Gezur Haches - Somos de Hortaleza Sexplosion - Feed my Hunger ( Electric Drinks) Arde la Sangre - Tecnocracia Grapeshot - Lost My Way Death Scythe - Kukulkan Elbereth - Jarraitzale Bila Driade - 1845 Ankor - Shoganai ( Trooper Basque Ale) Cains Dinasty - Legado de sangre Sphinx - Nada es imposible Ealain - El errante Tom PLAYLIST (Spotify) del programa: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3EhvPcDzVwMOIE0Kg866gG?si=ba68ea7e79bb42d7 Este icono Portada del programa para #StonedAtPompeii Este icono son saludos por parte de los grupos a Hörns ÜP! Videos Saludos de los Grupos (YouTube) --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Síguenos en: ❗️❗️ NUEVO - Canal de Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaFJWCQJJhzZzHtuYs0i Únete al canal y compártelo entre los metalheads!!!! #hornsuppodcast https://hornsup.es Instagram: @hornsuppodcast Twitter: @HornsUp2020 YouTube: SUSCRÍBETE !!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Puedes ayudar a Horns Up como nuestros "Fans": Ander, Ricardo, Eric, Charly, Mau, Raspu, Óscar, Pedro, Juankar, Carolina, Moy A.M., Iñaki, Carlos Blasco, Valentín, Baal, José Manuel Ruiz, David García, Rick Bass Baker, Fran, Fonchi, Moy Lora, Carlos Makina, Jesús Jiménez, Esther "Impala" Miguelón, Jorge y Pablo Graciassss!! APOYA AL PROGRAMA EN ESTE ENLACE: https://www.ivoox.com/support/835002 rick@hornsup.es
Hörns Üp 324 - ESP 24 con Rick Baker (15-10-2024) EN EL PROGRAMA DE HOY NOS VISITAN: Lex Lüger - You cant hide from the beast inside Heart 2 Heart - Feel your Heart ( Electric Drinks) The Mothercrow - Howling King Sapo - No terminó Patxa - Just Heavy Metal - Radiocrimen - Los chicos no están bien Scarecrow Avenue - Cuerdas de acero - Los del Humo - Indomables Vira - Mi generación Synlakross - Drama Queen - Between Seconds - Crying Flames Absalem- to the Bone Nuclear - Violent DNA Litost - Limosna Helevorn - Inherit the Stars Sinner's Blood - Enemy ( Electric Drinks) Legacy of the Seas - El Regreso de los Dioses Tierra Santa - Un viaje epico - Dark Embrace - We, The Witches ( + Trooper Basque Ale) PLAYLIST (Spotify) del programa: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/08mVJW7RCQ7h2bmPH93bMg?si=468361b1f5a7410b Este icono Portada del programa para #DarkEmbrace Este icono son saludos por parte de los grupos a Hörns ÜP! Videos Saludos de los Grupos (YouTube) --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Síguenos en: ❗️❗️ NUEVO - Canal de Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaFJWCQJJhzZzHtuYs0i Únete al canal y compártelo entre los metalheads!!!! #hornsuppodcast https://hornsup.es Instagram: @hornsuppodcast Twitter: @HornsUp2020 YouTube: SUSCRÍBETE !!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Puedes ayudar a Horns Up como nuestros "Fans": Ander, Ricardo, Eric, Charly, Mau, Raspu, Óscar, Pedro, Juankar, Carolina, Moy A.M., Iñaki, Carlos Blasco, Valentín, Baal, José Manuel Ruiz, David García, Rick Bass Baker, Fran, Fonchi, Moy Lora, Carlos Makina, Jesús Jiménez, Esther "Impala" Miguelón, Jorge y Pablo Graciassss!! APOYA AL PROGRAMA EN ESTE ENLACE: https://www.ivoox.com/support/835002 rick@hornsup.es
Hörns Üp 324 - ESP 24 con Rick Baker (15-10-2024) EN EL PROGRAMA DE HOY NOS VISITAN: Lex Lüger - You cant hide from the beast inside Heart 2 Heart - Feel your Heart ( Electric Drinks) The Mothercrow - Howling King Sapo - No terminó Patxa - Just Heavy Metal - Radiocrimen - Los chicos no están bien Scarecrow Avenue - Cuerdas de acero - Los del Humo - Indomables Vira - Mi generación Synlakross - Drama Queen - Between Seconds - Crying Flames Absalem- to the Bone Nuclear - Violent DNA Litost - Limosna Helevorn - Inherit the Stars Sinner's Blood - Enemy ( Electric Drinks) Legacy of the Seas - El Regreso de los Dioses Tierra Santa - Un viaje epico - Dark Embrace - We, The Witches ( + Trooper Basque Ale) PLAYLIST (Spotify) del programa: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/08mVJW7RCQ7h2bmPH93bMg?si=468361b1f5a7410b Este icono Portada del programa para #DarkEmbrace Este icono son saludos por parte de los grupos a Hörns ÜP! Videos Saludos de los Grupos (YouTube) --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Síguenos en: ❗️❗️ NUEVO - Canal de Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaFJWCQJJhzZzHtuYs0i Únete al canal y compártelo entre los metalheads!!!! #hornsuppodcast https://hornsup.es Instagram: @hornsuppodcast Twitter: @HornsUp2020 YouTube: SUSCRÍBETE !!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Puedes ayudar a Horns Up como nuestros "Fans": Ander, Ricardo, Eric, Charly, Mau, Raspu, Óscar, Pedro, Juankar, Carolina, Moy A.M., Iñaki, Carlos Blasco, Valentín, Baal, José Manuel Ruiz, David García, Rick Bass Baker, Fran, Fonchi, Moy Lora, Carlos Makina, Jesús Jiménez, Esther "Impala" Miguelón, Jorge y Pablo Graciassss!! APOYA AL PROGRAMA EN ESTE ENLACE: https://www.ivoox.com/support/835002 rick@hornsup.es
Send us a textBucks discuss Hurricane Helene as Del's prognostication on water is validated again, unfortunately.Bucks mourn the passing of Frank Young, a two-time guest of the show. Frank was witty, brilliant, firmly grounded and just a great story teller. You can listen to him talk about his sophomore year in India in Episode 135 and his career in the foreign service in Episode 150. We'll miss him. Welcome to listeners in Dundee, Scotland. It might be Scott Galloway from the Pivot podcast as he just celebrated a birthday there.Dave reads a note from his biking buddy Rich, who had a heart attack while biking with a flat tire and a storm brewing. Just another day for Rich. Glad he made it.Dave reads Fires by Rick Bass and Bucks discuss. What do you think?We have three bonus tracks in competition this episode. The song is Sweet Jane by Lou Reed. Lou sings one of his many versions and then we hear from the Cowboy Junkies and Miley Cyrus. Vote for your fave.Lou Reed Basic 4-chord rock and rollCowboy Junkies HauntingMiley Cyrus Yes, she's really good.HAPPY BIRTHDAYGive us your thoughts: BUCKSTWOOLD@GMAIL.COM Find us on FacebookLeave a Voice message - click HEREWHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?
Hörns Üp 315 - ESP 22 con Rick Baker (17-09-2024) EN EL PROGRAMA DE HOY NOS VISITAN: Heart2Heart - Alley of Dreams Stoned at Pompeii - Dont try with me Red Tiger - Only the storm will survive Lex Lugger - Hellion Rabia Perez - Blinding Lights Nos quedamos con Darmage - Un circo patético Knives - War Anthems Nukore - Planet B Bolu2 death - Culto a ti Far n Hate - Reborn Six Burning Knives - Lunch Evnen - Sanity Velkhanos - Born of the Vampire Mourners Lament - Ocaso Lunage - Through the realms of death PLAYLIST (Spotify) del programa: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1TgLyx4Nw6FclyIjZfC5RE?si=2fb08291b5b64d5c Este icono Portada del programa para #NUKORE Este icono son saludos por parte de los grupos a Hörns ÜP! Videos Saludos de los Grupos (YouTube) --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Síguenos en: rick@hornsup.es ❗️❗️ NUEVO - Canal de Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaFJWCQJJhzZzHtuYs0i Únete al canal y compártelo entre los metalheads!!!! #hornsuppodcast https://hornsup.es Instagram: @hornsuppodcast Twitter: @HornsUp2020 YouTube: SUSCRÍBETE !!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Puedes ayudar a Horns Up como nuestros "Fans": Ander, Ricardo, Eric, Charly, Mau, Raspu, Óscar, Pedro, Juankar, Carolina, Moy A.M., Iñaki, Carlos Blasco, Valentín, Baal, José Manuel Ruiz, David García, Rick Bass Baker, Fran, Fonchi, Moy Lora, Carlos Makina, Jesús Jiménez, Esther "Impala" Miguelón y Jorge Graciassss!! APOYA AL PROGRAMA EN ESTE ENLACE: https://www.ivoox.com/support/835002 Eventos y Patrocinios: info@hornsup.es
Hörns Üp 315 - ESP 22 con Rick Baker (17-09-2024) EN EL PROGRAMA DE HOY NOS VISITAN: Heart2Heart - Alley of Dreams Stoned at Pompeii - Dont try with me Red Tiger - Only the storm will survive Lex Lugger - Hellion Rabia Perez - Blinding Lights Nos quedamos con Darmage - Un circo patético Knives - War Anthems Nukore - Planet B Bolu2 death - Culto a ti Far n Hate - Reborn Six Burning Knives - Lunch Evnen - Sanity Velkhanos - Born of the Vampire Mourners Lament - Ocaso Lunage - Through the realms of death PLAYLIST (Spotify) del programa: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1TgLyx4Nw6FclyIjZfC5RE?si=2fb08291b5b64d5c Este icono Portada del programa para #NUKORE Este icono son saludos por parte de los grupos a Hörns ÜP! Videos Saludos de los Grupos (YouTube) --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Síguenos en: rick@hornsup.es ❗️❗️ NUEVO - Canal de Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaFJWCQJJhzZzHtuYs0i Únete al canal y compártelo entre los metalheads!!!! #hornsuppodcast https://hornsup.es Instagram: @hornsuppodcast Twitter: @HornsUp2020 YouTube: SUSCRÍBETE !!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlxRtucnQ3_WX9k2AvJfVQ Puedes ayudar a Horns Up como nuestros "Fans": Ander, Ricardo, Eric, Charly, Mau, Raspu, Óscar, Pedro, Juankar, Carolina, Moy A.M., Iñaki, Carlos Blasco, Valentín, Baal, José Manuel Ruiz, David García, Rick Bass Baker, Fran, Fonchi, Moy Lora, Carlos Makina, Jesús Jiménez, Esther "Impala" Miguelón y Jorge Graciassss!! APOYA AL PROGRAMA EN ESTE ENLACE: https://www.ivoox.com/support/835002 Eventos y Patrocinios: info@hornsup.es
Host Meg Wolitzer presents two works that reassess and redefine our ideas of “the West.” It's both a landscape of awesome beauty, and the scene of cultural appropriation, and we've got two masters sharing and shaping our experience. In Louise Erdrich's “The Hollow Children” a natural disaster tests family ties. It's read by Tate Donovan. And writer and environmental activist Rick Bass stress tests the West, and his main character, in “Fires,” read by John Benjamin Hickey. We also reprise part of an interview with Louise Erdrich from earlier in the year.In it, she mentions a new novel in progress, which has now been published: The Mighty Red: A Novel.
This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with author and environmental activist Rick Bass, author of ‘With Every Great Breath' (Counterpoint Press), a collection of new and selected essays spanning nearly thirty years: from 1995-2023.
This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with author and environmental activist Rick Bass, author of ‘With Every Great Breath' (Counterpoint Press), a collection of new and selected essays spanning nearly thirty years: from 1995-2023.
For the acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, there are no hard lines between life, art and the natural world.
Guest poets Rick Bass, Kathleen Dean Moore, Holly Hughes, and James Bertolino join us!Musical guest: Reid KerrSlice of Life Essayist: Alan RhodesA new episode of The Bellingham Bean performed by the Chuckanut Radio Players.Announcer, Rich Donnelly. Hosts, Chuck and Dee Robinson. Performed live at The Hotel Leopold's Crystal Ballroom in Bellingham, Washington, the City of Subdued Excitement.
In the latest episode of our podcast, Embers, the Valo teens sat down with author and environmental activist, Rick Bass, for a conversation on the role that young people play in climate activism. Together they explored climate anxiety, the importance of empowering youth, and the energy that comes from focusing on what stirs your heart. You won't want to miss this episode!
"I grieve the changes to the four seasons that are happening here in Montana. One of the great things about this place is having four distinct seasons, and now they're tilted. Some are short, some are long, and some don't exist anymore. And that's unsettling, to say the least. It's not a fear of what's coming. It's a grief for what's gone away. I'm mindful of the pressure that we are putting on the generations who follow us and the mandate to have fun, to be fully human, to be joyous, to celebrate, and to enjoy being in the midst of nature's beauty."Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com.www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. "I grieve the changes to the four seasons that are happening here in Montana. One of the great things about this place is having four distinct seasons, and now they're tilted. Some are short, some are long, and some don't exist anymore. And that's unsettling, to say the least. It's not a fear of what's coming. It's a grief for what's gone away. I'm mindful of the pressure that we are putting on the generations who follow us and the mandate to have fun, to be fully human, to be joyous, to celebrate, and to enjoy being in the midst of nature's beauty."www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
"So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.We want the climate refuge to be really big. We want it to store a ton of carbon. We want it to be a focal point for increased scientific and artistic inquiry. We've brought in the world's leading climate scientists, and they've analyzed it, and they're proposing studies that should happen there. We've brought in our country's leading artists and they have experienced it and responded to it in their own way. We've had performance artists come and play music in the forest. So we want to establish the nation's first climate refuge. There is no such designation. We want it to be in Black Ram. This forest that almost got erased, a forest that was a thousand years old and almost went away. But we're getting a second chance. We saved it. Now we want to preserve it for another thousand years to study it, but we don't want to stop there. We want the government to establish a series of climate refuges all along the northern tier of the United States. What we think of as a necklace of green, a curtain of green. And from there to go around the globe, across northern Europe and northern Asia, and back around to Alaska. The amount of carbon that can be kept safely sequestered there is extraordinary. The numbers are almost unbelievable."Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
"Be specific. Show, don't tell. And it comes back to the five senses. If it's something we can touch, taste, scent, see, hear, then we're going to engage more deeply in the dream. And if it's an abstraction like beautiful or terrible, that's a kind of shorthand, and we lose a little bit of our connection with the reader every time we use an abstraction because beautiful is going to mean something slightly different to every different reader. And then you put another abstraction on that, terrible say, that's going to mean something different. Abstraction by abstraction, a degree at a time, two or three degrees at a time, finally you're 180 degrees away from the reader. Whereas if it's something specific, a yellow-handled phillips screwdriver with a bit of oil and the handles worn smooth from where the protagonist's father had done kitchen repair in their home 75 years before, falling off a ladder at the age of nine and breaking his neck...The specificity allows us to believe in the dream of the story. And that's what we as writers want the reader to be. We want to believe in the dream of the story. When we're not being specific as writers, it's because we are groping and grasping for the story. I think the best writing is the most specific writing, and there's this phenomenon as a writer when your story sags and you can't quite figure out what's gone wrong. You go back and look at it and wherever your best writing is, that's where the secret heart of the story is. That's where the story was trying to come up from below. And when you subconsciously were most engaged with it, you could see it, you could taste it, you could smell it, you could feel it, you could hear it.William Carlos Williams said, 'No ideas, but in things.' He said in five words what I just spent five minutes blathering about. No ideas, but in things. Don't tell me what something is. Show it to me. The meaning and the idea is in the image or in the sound, or in the taste."Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. "Be specific. Show, don't tell. And it comes back to the five senses. If it's something we can touch, taste, scent, see, hear, then we're going to engage more deeply in the dream. And if it's an abstraction like beautiful or terrible, that's a kind of shorthand, and we lose a little bit of our connection with the reader every time we use an abstraction because beautiful is going to mean something slightly different to every different reader. And then you put another abstraction on that, terrible say, that's going to mean something different. Abstraction by abstraction, a degree at a time, two or three degrees at a time, finally you're 180 degrees away from the reader. Whereas if it's something specific, a yellow-handled phillips screwdriver with a bit of oil and the handles worn smooth from where the protagonist's father had done kitchen repair in their home 75 years before, falling off a ladder at the age of nine and breaking his neck...The specificity allows us to believe in the dream of the story. And that's what we as writers want the reader to be. We want to believe in the dream of the story. When we're not being specific as writers, it's because we are groping and grasping for the story. I think the best writing is the most specific writing, and there's this phenomenon as a writer when your story sags and you can't quite figure out what's gone wrong. You go back and look at it and wherever your best writing is, that's where the secret heart of the story is. That's where the story was trying to come up from below. And when you subconsciously were most engaged with it, you could see it, you could taste it, you could smell it, you could feel it, you could hear it.William Carlos Williams said, 'No ideas, but in things.' He said in five words what I just spent five minutes blathering about. No ideas, but in things. Don't tell me what something is. Show it to me. The meaning and the idea is in the image or in the sound, or in the taste."www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. "So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.I went into this old forest called Black Ram that we were seeking to defend and did successfully defend for now. There are these 600, 700, and 800-year-old trees already spraypainted in orange and blue that they were going to cut down. And I thought let's make a guitar out of a piece of one of these giant spruces. And that's what I did. I went back with my chainsaw and cut out a length of it, wheel-barreled it out, and took the piece of wood to a man named Kevin Kopp."www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
"So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.I went into this old forest called Black Ram that we were seeking to defend and did successfully defend for now. There are these 600, 700, and 800-year-old trees already spraypainted in orange and blue that they were going to cut down. And I thought let's make a guitar out of a piece of one of these giant spruces. And that's what I did. I went back with my chainsaw and cut out a length of it, wheel-barreled it out, and took the piece of wood to a man named Kevin Kopp."Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
"So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.We want the climate refuge to be really big. We want it to store a ton of carbon. We want it to be a focal point for increased scientific and artistic inquiry. We've brought in the world's leading climate scientists, and they've analyzed it, and they're proposing studies that should happen there. We've brought in our country's leading artists and they have experienced it and responded to it in their own way. We've had performance artists come and play music in the forest. So we want to establish the nation's first climate refuge. There is no such designation. We want it to be in Black Ram. This forest that almost got erased, a forest that was a thousand years old and almost went away. But we're getting a second chance. We saved it. Now we want to preserve it for another thousand years to study it, but we don't want to stop there. We want the government to establish a series of climate refuges all along the northern tier of the United States. What we think of as a necklace of green, a curtain of green. And from there to go around the globe, across northern Europe and northern Asia, and back around to Alaska. The amount of carbon that can be kept safely sequestered there is extraordinary. The numbers are almost unbelievable."Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. "I grieve the changes to the four seasons that are happening here in Montana. One of the great things about this place is having four distinct seasons, and now they're tilted. Some are short, some are long, and some don't exist anymore. And that's unsettling, to say the least. It's not a fear of what's coming. It's a grief for what's gone away. I'm mindful of the pressure that we are putting on the generations who follow us and the mandate to have fun, to be fully human, to be joyous, to celebrate, and to enjoy being in the midst of nature's beauty."www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
"I grieve the changes to the four seasons that are happening here in Montana. One of the great things about this place is having four distinct seasons, and now they're tilted. Some are short, some are long, and some don't exist anymore. And that's unsettling, to say the least. It's not a fear of what's coming. It's a grief for what's gone away. I'm mindful of the pressure that we are putting on the generations who follow us and the mandate to have fun, to be fully human, to be joyous, to celebrate, and to enjoy being in the midst of nature's beauty."Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com.www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
"So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.I went into this old forest called Black Ram that we were seeking to defend and did successfully defend for now. There are these 600, 700, and 800-year-old trees already spraypainted in orange and blue that they were going to cut down. And I thought let's make a guitar out of a piece of one of these giant spruces. And that's what I did. I went back with my chainsaw and cut out a length of it, wheel-barreled it out, and took the piece of wood to a man named Kevin Kopp."Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. "So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.I went into this old forest called Black Ram that we were seeking to defend and did successfully defend for now. There are these 600, 700, and 800-year-old trees already spraypainted in orange and blue that they were going to cut down. And I thought let's make a guitar out of a piece of one of these giant spruces. And that's what I did. I went back with my chainsaw and cut out a length of it, wheel-barreled it out, and took the piece of wood to a man named Kevin Kopp."www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
The Creative Process in 10 minutes or less · Arts, Culture & Society
"So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.We want the climate refuge to be really big. We want it to store a ton of carbon. We want it to be a focal point for increased scientific and artistic inquiry. We've brought in the world's leading climate scientists, and they've analyzed it, and they're proposing studies that should happen there. We've brought in our country's leading artists and they have experienced it and responded to it in their own way. We've had performance artists come and play music in the forest. So we want to establish the nation's first climate refuge. There is no such designation. We want it to be in Black Ram. This forest that almost got erased, a forest that was a thousand years old and almost went away. But we're getting a second chance. We saved it. Now we want to preserve it for another thousand years to study it, but we don't want to stop there. We want the government to establish a series of climate refuges all along the northern tier of the United States. What we think of as a necklace of green, a curtain of green. And from there to go around the globe, across northern Europe and northern Asia, and back around to Alaska. The amount of carbon that can be kept safely sequestered there is extraordinary. The numbers are almost unbelievable."Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
"So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.We want the climate refuge to be really big. We want it to store a ton of carbon. We want it to be a focal point for increased scientific and artistic inquiry. We've brought in the world's leading climate scientists, and they've analyzed it, and they're proposing studies that should happen there. We've brought in our country's leading artists and they have experienced it and responded to it in their own way. We've had performance artists come and play music in the forest. So we want to establish the nation's first climate refuge. There is no such designation. We want it to be in Black Ram. This forest that almost got erased, a forest that was a thousand years old and almost went away. But we're getting a second chance. We saved it. Now we want to preserve it for another thousand years to study it, but we don't want to stop there. We want the government to establish a series of climate refuges all along the northern tier of the United States. What we think of as a necklace of green, a curtain of green. And from there to go around the globe, across northern Europe and northern Asia, and back around to Alaska. The amount of carbon that can be kept safely sequestered there is extraordinary. The numbers are almost unbelievable."Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. "So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.We want the climate refuge to be really big. We want it to store a ton of carbon. We want it to be a focal point for increased scientific and artistic inquiry. We've brought in the world's leading climate scientists, and they've analyzed it, and they're proposing studies that should happen there. We've brought in our country's leading artists and they have experienced it and responded to it in their own way. We've had performance artists come and play music in the forest. So we want to establish the nation's first climate refuge. There is no such designation. We want it to be in Black Ram. This forest that almost got erased, a forest that was a thousand years old and almost went away. But we're getting a second chance. We saved it. Now we want to preserve it for another thousand years to study it, but we don't want to stop there. We want the government to establish a series of climate refuges all along the northern tier of the United States. What we think of as a necklace of green, a curtain of green. And from there to go around the globe, across northern Europe and northern Asia, and back around to Alaska. The amount of carbon that can be kept safely sequestered there is extraordinary. The numbers are almost unbelievable."www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. "So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.We want the climate refuge to be really big. We want it to store a ton of carbon. We want it to be a focal point for increased scientific and artistic inquiry. We've brought in the world's leading climate scientists, and they've analyzed it, and they're proposing studies that should happen there. We've brought in our country's leading artists and they have experienced it and responded to it in their own way. We've had performance artists come and play music in the forest. So we want to establish the nation's first climate refuge. There is no such designation. We want it to be in Black Ram. This forest that almost got erased, a forest that was a thousand years old and almost went away. But we're getting a second chance. We saved it. Now we want to preserve it for another thousand years to study it, but we don't want to stop there. We want the government to establish a series of climate refuges all along the northern tier of the United States. What we think of as a necklace of green, a curtain of green. And from there to go around the globe, across northern Europe and northern Asia, and back around to Alaska. The amount of carbon that can be kept safely sequestered there is extraordinary. The numbers are almost unbelievable."www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him The Story Prize, multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.He's an organizer and speaker at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest, a fundraiser event to benefit the grassroots environmental movement of Protect Ancient Forests & The Montana Project. Featuring Maggie Rogers and more great performers and speakers. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the nation's first Climate Refuge. Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. ET, at the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets available at the Merrill's box office and online at PortTIX.com. "So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of resistance or celebration. And that's what we're going to do at Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest. We're going to have it be an annual event like Farm Aid. And we want it to be big. We want it to be Woodstock in its pivot point. The way the Children's Trust court case was pivotal, the way this Black Ram court case we had and won was pivotal.We want Climate Aid to be a celebration. And this one guitar exploring the question: Can one tree save a forest? Can one song save a forest? And we think the answer is yes. We believe it will be. What we want to do with the forest that the guitar came from is establish it as a climate refuge, a place dedicated to storing as much carbon and long-term safekeeping as possible.We want the climate refuge to be really big. We want it to store a ton of carbon. We want it to be a focal point for increased scientific and artistic inquiry. We've brought in the world's leading climate scientists, and they've analyzed it, and they're proposing studies that should happen there. We've brought in our country's leading artists and they have experienced it and responded to it in their own way. We've had performance artists come and play music in the forest. So we want to establish the nation's first climate refuge. There is no such designation. We want it to be in Black Ram. This forest that almost got erased, a forest that was a thousand years old and almost went away. But we're getting a second chance. We saved it. Now we want to preserve it for another thousand years to study it, but we don't want to stop there. We want the government to establish a series of climate refuges all along the northern tier of the United States. What we think of as a necklace of green, a curtain of green. And from there to go around the globe, across northern Europe and northern Asia, and back around to Alaska. The amount of carbon that can be kept safely sequestered there is extraordinary. The numbers are almost unbelievable."www.rickbass.netwww.protectancientforests.orgwww.montanaproject.orgwww.PortTIX.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast
Del unleashes his pent-up rants on climate change, political upheaval, the healthcare system, cryptocurrency, and pocket dialing.Recalling last week's story by Rick Bass, Dave tells an owl story from his youth and Del reveals he had a dog named Delco. Electrifying!A vintage vixen loses her cat while on a road trip. Dave gives two thumbs-up to the movie, A Man called Ove on Amazon. Del passes along more Public Service Announcements. Example: Never adjust your sunglasses when you have a drill in your hand.What do Thai food and Saudi golf have in common?
Are bees fish? Only in California, apparently.Del continues to embellish his bogus sea cruise.PA primaries are finally over. The Senate races were unreal. LISTEN TO YOUR DOCTOR, JOHN FETTERMAN, UNLESS HIS NAME IS OZ.Del keeps his irons in the fire.Dave reads Eating by Rick Bass from his short story collection, The Hermit's Story. Enjoy the imagery in this short, light tale. Contact us at BUCKSTWOOLD@GMAIL.COM. TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO LISTEN.
This week, Scott continues his discussion with Andy Bellin, this time focusing on his time at The Paris Review. Founded in 1953 by George Plimpton, The Review was among the first to publish V.S. Naipaul, Jack Kerouac, and Rick Bass, among others. This interview offers a rare, behind the scenes look at George and at an iconic American magazine.
This interview is with Rick Bass, author of more than 30 books, wildlife and wildlands activist and resident of the Yaak Valley in northwest Montana. Bass studied geology at Utah State University. He grew up in Houston, and started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1987, he moved with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Hughes Bass, to the remote Yaak Valley, where he works to protect his adopted home from roads and logging. Rick serves on the boards of the Yaak Valley Forest Council, Save the Yellowstone Grizzly, and The Montana Project. He continues to give readings, write, and teach around the country and world.Rick Bass has had numerous stories anthologized in Best American Short Stories: The Year's Best. His nonfiction has been anthologized in Best American Spiritual Writing and Best American Science Writing and several other anthologies. Various of his books have been named New York Times as well as Los Angeles Times Notable Books of the Year, and a New York Times Best Book of the Year. A nonfiction book, Why I Came West, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a 2011 Artist's Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council and a Governor's Award in the Arts. His stories, articles and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Washington Post, and numerous other periodicals.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with author and environmentalist Janisse Ray about her newest book, Wild Spectacle. ABOUT WILD SPECTACLE “Wonderful. Janisse Ray has a heart the size of a manatee and the tenacity (and laugh) of a pileated woodpecker. She is incapable of not loving this world and all that is in it. If you don't yet know her work, today is your lucky day.”―Rick Bass, author of For a Little While: New and Selected Stories “An urgent love letter to our wild places. Part poet, naturalist, and tour guide, Ray is a gifted observer. We finish this remarkable book brimming with gratitude and alive to the wild spectacles around us.”―Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs GUEST: Janisse Ray is a naturalist and activist, and the author of seven books of nonfiction and poetry, including The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River, and Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, which won the American Book Award. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and journals, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Nautilus Book Award, and numerous other honors. Ray lives on an organic farm near Savannah, Georgia. www.janisseray.com HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press. Video: https://youtu.be/E5LZKr9t1c0
Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by Reid Bryant, host of the Orvis Hunting and Shooting Podcast, and Chad Love, Quail Forever Journal's editor, for a free-flowing conversation covering strong opinions about bird hunting influencers on Instagram and great bird hunting literature. Episode Highlights: • There is clear chemistry between Bryant and Love who share a mutual passion for literature featuring bird hunting themes and settings from icons the likes of Jim Fergus, Annie Proulx, Harry Middleton, Guy de la Valdene, Steve Bodio, Norman Maclean, David Guterson, and Rick Bass to name a few. • The guys also talk about the new collaboration between Orvis and Quail Forever centered around some fresh artwork from Jay Dowd (AKA @upland_lowlife on Instagram). You can purchase the limited-edition Orvis and Quail Forever collaborative Covey Call Tee featuring artwork from Jay Dowd here: https://www.orvis.com/orvis-and-quail-forever-covey-call-tee/3EAF.html
where we talk about: library news; new library staff; Becky and Austin's road trip; Glacier National Park; Deep Creek by Pam Houston; Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy; Pine Creek Lodge and the Montana Gang of writers; Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison; The Traveling Feast by Rick Bass; The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Erlich; The Meadow by James Galvin; Outlawed by Anna North; The Eagles of Heart Mountain by Bradford Pearson; They Called Us Enemy by George Takei; Longmire show and series by Craig Johnson; and more!
Dave relives two party crashing episodes in London. At one, he saw Gloria Gaynor live at a BMW party and saw the second act of Les Misérables live onstage at the Palace Theatre. Fortunam bonam est.The Bucks recommend video offerings. These include Wisting, a Norwegian detective series on Acorn, Lupin, a French whodunit offering on Acorn, Midnight Diner, a Japanese series on Netflix, and the documentary on the late, great Clarence Clemons of Springsteen and E-Street Band fame. Clarence Clemons: Who Do I Think I Am? on Netflix. Check out these links; you'll want to see more. They may be available at other outlets in addition to the ones noted. Del almost reviews a book, the title of which he can't remember, by somebody he calls Giles [sorry, that's all he'll tell us]. Dave recommends The Watch, an old collection of short stories by Rick Bass. With luck, we'll get the true facts out of Del in the next episode.In recognition of April as National Poetry Month, Del and Dave read short poems they like.Del has more Big Ideas on commercials and E. D. [whoa, not what you think, to Dave's relief]. Disclaimer: No little blue pills were injested in the making of this podcast.
In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Sasha and photographer, publisher, and teacher, Peter Kayafas, discuss his process of following his camera to move through and explore the world. Peter and Sasha also talk about the different ways in which Peter has found professional satisfaction outside of making photographs and how that has allowed him to continue his work free of the pressures and demands of the art world. Be sure to listen all the way through to the end for a bonus conversation between Sasha and Peter about how Sasha got started as a dealer and the pivotal role Peter played in that origin story. https://peterkayafas.com Peter Kayafas is a photographer, publisher, curator and teacher who lives in New York City where he is the Director of the Eakins Press Foundation. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2019), and his photographs have been widely exhibited, and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; The New York Public Library; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He has taught photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn since 2000 and is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation of Yaddo. He has published four monographs of his photographs—The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta (2007); O Public Road! Photographs of America (2009); Totems (2012)—and The Way West (2020) with an essay by Rick Bass. “Kayafas manages to pack a lot of history — of photography and, implicitly, of America’s real and imagined images of itself — into each of his photos. For some viewers, these pictures may merely offer an abbreviated, reportorial glimpse of what a once-fabled region looks like today. For others, they may allude to a more expansive, Whitmanesque concept of America as a big, diverse place that is also a big, diverse, national family. In doing so, the vision and spirit of Kayafas’s broad body of work, of which The Way West represents only a small sampling, may even begin to point a way home.” —Edward M. Gomez, Hyperallergic, May 24, 2014 “Kayafas is an artist who keeps his strength in check.… [His photographs are] as initially unassuming as they are ultimately powerful. Kayafas’s pictures are rich in knowledge…. Candid is just the beginning.” —Boston Phoenix, March, 2005 “His pictures are crisp and direct, and the best of them vibrate with understated graphic tension.” —The New Yorker, March, 2005 “Kayafas’s images have a timeless quality. They’re simple and spare, yet quietly overpowering with their evocation of a history on a scale beyond that of individual human lives.” —Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe, January 2012 Find out more at https://photowork.pinecast.co
On Thursday's Houston Matters: The drama surrounding Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson took a startling turn late Tuesday. Houston area attorney Tony Buzbee announced on Instagram that his law firm has filed suit against Watson. Fox 26 reported Wednesday the plaintiff alleges sexual assault. Watson stated on Twitter Tuesday night that he has “never treated any woman with anything other than the utmost respect,” and that he looks forward to clearing his name. We discuss what... Read More
Our 666th podcast episode is an exploration of the archetype of the devil, and its relationship to the high priestess. When WILL MORGAN of the Meta-Egg YouTube channel invited host ANDRAS JONES to join his show to discuss Marvel's new WandaVision series it opened up a sync-whole of blackness, beauty and heroism that spanned across both shows. We highly encourage you to check out the Meta Egg links below to get the full impact, and check out Wanda Vision featuring friend of the show AMOS GLICK as Dennis The Mailman. Also this week, Radio8Ball got a nice link from The New Yorker in an article about the need to push the Biden administration on the environment in which they featured activist/author RICK BASS, who discussed The Yaak Valley when he was on Radio8Ball with Caroline Keys. Featuring: The Radio8Ball Theme Song performed by MYRA FLYNN The Pop Oracle Song of The Day for January 28th, 2021: Mr, Jones & The Previous "Ain't I A Woman" Featured Music: "Never Emmanuel" by ANDRAS JONES "I Don't Think I'll Make It Through The Summer" by MERCH "Dylan & Woody" by ANDRAS JONES Double Naught Spy Car provides the musical bed with “The Mooche” by Duke Ellington & “In Walked Bud, Out Walked Bud” by Thelonious Monk Thanks to Alan Green for “special projects”. Graphics by Tony Householder Join our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball LINKS: RADIO8BALL WEBSITE - www.radio8ball.com META-EGG YOUTUBE: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFteb5MY3OU Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oglWG3gW8I THE WORLD IS WRONG podcast:https://www.theworldiswrongpodcast.com/ RADIO8BALL APP - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio8ball/id1326738822 RADIO8BALL PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball RADIO8BALL FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/radio8ball/ RADIO8BALL TWITTER - @radio8ball RADIO8BALL INSTAGRAM - @theradio8ballshow Link at the Radio8Ball website: http://www.radio8ball.com/2021/02/09/will-morgan-of-meta-egg-and-wandavision/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rick Bass, an acclaimed author, and native of Yak Valley discuss challenges affecting national parks and the importance of sharing experiences. From climate change to conservation conflicts, Rick explains why we should pass stories of environmental struggles to future generations. In his mind, the obligation to preserve history and raise awareness are community values and expressions of courage. If one seeks to inspire influence, one must be willing not only to lend a voice but share the whole story. As Rick continues, one of the ways he has done this is through his book, Traveling Feast. In the book, Rick focuses his premise on connecting generations through benevolence – the idea of sharing what you love at the core of generosity. The more life seems to converge, the more opportunities we have to expound upon the hope that we know. Resources: The Traveling Feast by Rick Bass Connect: www.parkleaders.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theparkleaders/
In this special episode, renowned author Rick Bass joins me to explore the current challenges facing wild places in our nation, especially the Yak Valley in Montana. Not surprisingly, these challenges are also present in our own social climate. As with many challenges currently facing our nation, our community, our connection, and shared history hold the key. Whether that is partnering with the scientific community to raise awareness of climate change and its impact or lending your voice to important movements like Black Lives Matter or 350.org – the need for passing the torch is rising with every passing year. Sharing our stories, passing on our experiences, allowing the next generation to learn from our failures and successes takes courage. Making a difference takes courage, especially when it relies on one generation changing the trajectory of the previous. In his book, Traveling Feast, Rick connects older and younger generations of authors over a meal. As we dive deeper into that concept, we see the importance of fostering generational connection. You don't want things you value to be lost. It is necessary to connect the generations. Share what you love. That love promotes and generates generosity. Life is full of convergences. The more opportunities we have to fulfill our obligation to pass on the knowledge and wisdom we have gained, the more stories we share, the more hope we can hold on to. Resources: Books by Rick Bass The Traveling Feast by Rick Bass Connect with Jody: www.jodymaberry.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sugarjmaberry LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodymaberry/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sugarjmaberry/
Sometimes the wisdom we need to hear is found in conversations we've already had. In my last episode, Jeff Brown and I shared our book recommendations. One author mentioned was Rick Bass. I had the pleasure of interviewing Rick in 2016 for The Park Leader's Podcast. Although that conversation was through the lens of parks and for the park leader audience, the overarching theme is one for us all. At the very core of who we are as humans, our connection to nature and “wild” places holds our history. We have a rich past of preservation in our country. Whether you are a scientist, a politician, an author, or an everyday average person, we have a responsibility to speak up about those values we hold, especially in public. Our words, our financial investments, our time…all of our modern resources can be engaged in stewarding and caring for our natural resources. Whatever the industry or arena, silos are detrimental to growth and improvement. Resources: Books by Rick Bass Grizzley Years by Doug Peacock The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado by Rick Bass Connect with Jody: www.jodymaberry.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sugarjmaberry LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodymaberry/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sugarjmaberry/
Rick Bass is a prolific writer of essays, short stories, and long form fiction, many of them about nature and his adopted home in the Yaak Valley. Rick is also an outspoken environmental activist. His most recent book is called, "The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes."
L’invité : Yan Lespoux, maître de conférences à l’Université Montpellier-III et auteur du blog Encore du noir Le thème : petit parcours au sein des polars et livres noirs sur fond historique Les livres évoqués et les périodes concernées Rick Bass, La décimation (Texas 1842) Colson Whitehead, Underground railroad (États-Unis au premier XIXe siècle) E.L. Doctorow, La … Continue reading "146. Polars historiques, avec Yan Lespoux"
Missoula-based carpenter, elk hunter and bird dog man Malcolm Brooks is the author of the epic novel Painted Horses, a wild and beautifully written story of romance and collision in 1950s Montana, where ancient pictographs in unexplored canyons whisper stories about to be forever lost beneath waters impounded in the frenzy of the dam-building era. Painted Horses has been described by Rick Bass as "Reminiscent of the fiery, lyrical and animated spirit of Cormac McCarthy's Borderlands trilogy, and the wisdom and elegance of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, Painted Horses is its own work, a big, old-fashioned and important novel." Hear what brought Brooks to this story and what drives him forward now.
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What if you could take a road trip and visit all your heroes, door-to-door? What if you could share a meal? And what if you could do it right in their own homes? Our guest today embarked on just such a pilgrimage.
We sit down with Rick Bass to discuss writing, activism, and football! Check out our archive of episodes at www.jamieandtravispresent.com
In this meditative tale, a runner spends a summer training in a remote mountain town. This story appears in the collection FOR A LITTLE WHILE by Rick Bass, published by Little, Brown & Company. Listen to ad-free episodes one week early, plus exclusive bonus episodes, only on Stitcher Premium. For a free month of listening, go to stitcherpremium.com/levar and use promo code 'LEVAR'. This episode is sponsored by Google Play (g.co/play/levar).
The final part of This Writing Life's conversation with Rick Bass, award winning writer and respected environmental activist, begins where the last podlet ended. 'Obey little, resist much.' From there, we consider time and how art can help breed a sense of empathy. Bass bashes the de-humanising effects of corporate existence, the apathy and 'altered truths' that make up contemporary life. The pod ends with more Trump, some lighter discussion of Bass's writing day, his family, and finally - with one eye on the audio-audience, so to speak - some chat about Montana. For a little more about Bass' superb collection For a Little While, visit. You can listen to Rick read The Hermit's Story here. Thank you for listening.
In this short but inspiring podlet, This Writing Life attempts its best impersonation of Pod Save America and asks: what can we do to organise resistance against Donald Trump, destroyer of worlds, ruiner of all things good and wholesome and green and free? Where does Bass draw the line when resisting: the picket line, the jail cell? What would he say to anyone tempted to welcome the frackers? Part five of five to follow.
In part four of This Writing Life's conversation with Rick Bass, whose new book For a Little While (Pushkin) on 2017's Story Prize, we talk about his love of the short story, and why it is the most human of literary forms. We return to the relationship between Bass's environmentalism and his writing, before skipping off again onto nature writing and finally the difference between optimism and hope in Bass's conception of humankind. Buried somewhere in all this, Bass refuses to talk about his new novel. 'It's an old writer's taboo...' The fifth and final part to follow next week.
A short trailer for part 4 of This Writing Life's conversation with Rick Bass. In which Rick answers the question: are you optimisitic about human nature?
Part three of This Writing Life's transatlantic chat with a Montana-bound Rick Bass takes in the material in Episode 119: in which Rick reviews his short story career in For a Little While (Pushkin), and attempting to describe what it feels like to be lost in a story. In between he discusses the connections between writing and geology, about following his imaginative nose through a story. To finish, we talk about his story 'Elk', which first appeared in the New Yorker, images of substrata and blue in his work, and the mysteriousness of his own characters. Part 4 to follow.
'You are a stranger inhabiting this blazing dream and you barely get out with your life...yeah, and then you go to the bar for a drink.' A Writing Life podlet, in which Rick Bass recalls what's like to review your career (to date) in his superb collection of stories, For a Little While (Pushkin Press), which won 2017's Story Prize. From here Bass tries to explain what it feels like when inspiration strikes and fades.
Part two of This Writing Life's transatlantic conversation with Rick Bass, novelist, activist, award-winning short story writer, begins with a question referencing Philip Larkin, Romanticism and Transcendentalism and continues with an answer discussing fiction, geology, humans and time: 'We are new to this world. We don't know how to be in this old world.' ----more----From here we moved towards some if not all the following: Bass, religion and nature 'fostered alike by beauty and by fear': nature as teacher? autobiography, family and discovering nature nature as idea or reality? Annie Gillard, Peter Matheson, Edward Abbey: Bass and nature writing 'I like people. I just don't like being around them': Bass as misanthropist? bookshops, Russians, Flannery O'Connor, Jim Harrison: how did Bass start writing? Part 3 to follow.
'I am working on a new novel...and an op-ed for the Los Angeles paper about Trump and his reign of terror.' Here in one line is This Writing Life's lengthy podcast conversation with Rick Bass - novelist, award-winning short story writer, and environmental activist. In future episodes we discuss For a Little While, a collection of his best short fiction, which a week after we spoke won the prestigious Story Prize. We began however with Rick Bass the Environmental Activist - in his home state of Montana and elsewhere across the United States and disunited world. You can read more about his work to save the natural world and fight the powers that seek to denude it at his excellent website: rickbass.net/projects. ----more---- We spoke over the magic of Skype. This not only allowed us to talk from different locations (TWL at home in Oxford; Bass from his writing office near Montana State University), it inspired new, if temporary theme music. Other sounds are provided by the TWL daughter: 'It's good music,' Bass said kindly as she chatters in the background. In this opening instalment, our focus was on the election of Donald Trump and what it might mean for the environment and environmental politics in the United States. Bass is unequivocal: 'In the worst nightmare horror movie you would not have such goings on'. From this low point we skate upwards to: Bass on the 2016 Presidential race 'Everybody's in mourning and is searching for a centre current of resistance': the response to Trump's ascension 'I for one am glad I have guns': Bass on protest and a 'terrifying' America would Hilary Clinton have been a greener President? Trump, the Keystone Pipeline, Scott Pruitt - reasons not to be cheerful the state of writing and journalism under Trump 'cultural clamour': the changing, angry face of public politics in America Rick Bass: writing or activism; writing and activism? science, art, politics Part two to follow.
'I quite liked it.' So says Gary Younge about America in the final part of This Writing Life podcast's conversation about his wonderful new book, Another Day in the Death of America. We began by asking asking Younge about his decision to leave the country and return to his home in Hackney, east London. A description of his feelings on departing the United States leads into a meditation on his Barbadian family background, and what it means to grow up black in Britain. 'There is an element of outsiderness here that I carry with me.' ----more---- From here, he talked about what politicians in America (this was pre-Trump, mind you) are doing to confront the problems Younge's book raises: gun control, racism, the gap between rich and poor, healthcare are there causes for hope Younge on Trump and Clinton on returning to London - and how his family are adapting what toll did researching and writing the book take on Younge? Our next guest on This Writing Life is the American novelist, short story writer and activist, Rick Bass.
Nickolas and James have an honest conversation about the publishing industry and Nickolas's young career, which has featured three great books, including his most recent novel, THE HEARTS OF MEN. They touch on subjects ranging from how Nickolas started taking writing seriously to becoming an Eagle Scout to attending Iowa to Gordon Lightfoot to Cormac McCarthy's table tennis skills. Plus, Nickolas's agent Rob McQuilkin. - Nickolas Butler: http://nickolasbutler.com/ Nickolas and James discuss: Iowa Writers' Workshop Square Books Cormac McCarthy Canterbury Booksellers Jim Harrison POACHERS by Tom Franklin THE NEW VALLEY by Josh Weil IN THE LOYAL MOUNTAINS by Rick Bass Dean Bakopoulos Jeremiah Chamberlin LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding Kent Haruf JIM THE BOY by Tony Earley FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk - Rob McQuilkin: http://www.mmqlit.com/ Rob and James Discuss: EO Wilson Louisa May Alcott Jhumpa Lahiri THE HEARTS OF MEN by Nickolas Butler Lexi Wangler Eve Gleichman SHOTGUN LOVESONGS by Nickolas Butler BENEATH THE BONFIRE by Nickolas Butler PLOUGHSHARES OUTSIDE VALENTINE by Liza Ward Maria Massie Megan Lynch Tom Perrotta Peter Ho Davies - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/
Grizzly Times speaks with author Rick Bass. A world renowned writer and conservation advocate, Rick shares his long experience fighting for Wilderness, bears and his beloved Yaak Valley. Hearing his words will make you fall in love with Wilderness, grizzly bears, wolves all over again! Here’s Rick: “Anytime you’re fortunate enough to see a bear, any kind of bear, it changes your day, changes your week, it re-calibrates how you think about yourself. You’re just struck by the sentience and intelligence of the animal. It re-calibrates this myth, this perception we have that because our brains are pretty big, we’ve got everything figured out.”
After a backpacking trip to Glacier National Park, I passed through the Yaak Valley. I was intrigued by the beauty of the valley. It just felt different than most other places I had visited. Shortly after my short visit to the Yaak Valley, I discovered a book called The Book of Yaak by Rick Bass. I began devouring Rick Bass' books, and I returned to the Yaak. Over the years, I hiked many miles and spent many nights in the Yaak Valley. And read many Rick Bass books. Rick used his words to bring awareness to the Yaak Valley and the issues this unique place in Montana faced. In this episode of The Park Leaders Show, Rick Bass talks about the Yaak Valley, the importance of parks, and the biggest issues facing parks today. Here are some of Rick Bass' books you will enjoy; The Lost Grizzlies The Ninemile Wolves The Wild Marsh Rick Bass recommends The Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock. Rick Bass gave us a list of suggested books people in parks should read. Check out the Suggested Reading List from Rick Bass.
Rick Bass reads "Ice," by Thomas McGuane.
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