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Store hosts food drive
Posted: December 10th, 2011
Staff at the Simply Mac store on West Broadway will be collecting food for the Jackson Cupboard through next week.
States, feds join forces to protect sage grouse
Posted: December 10th, 2011
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Gov. Matt Mead and officials from western states Friday discussed a strategy to save sage grouse and keep them off the federal endangered species list.
Day frames murder trial
Posted: December 10th, 2011
Attorneys arguing the first-degree murder case against Troy Willoughby, who was convicted last year of killing Jackson resident Lisa Ehlers in 1984, agreed Friday his first trial should not be mentioned at his next.
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Reading The West & High Plains Book Awards Finalists Announced
Posted: May 25th, 2011
Last week two regional organizations announced the finalists for their annual book awards. I've listed the finalists below with links to New West's reviews of the books and author interviews. First, the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association announced the finalists for its Reading the West Book Awards (that's the new name of the MPIBA's longstanding book award series).
The shortlist in the Adult category:
• Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession by Craig Childs (Little, Brown and Co.)
• The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Volt: Stories by Alan Heathcock (Graywolf Press)
• Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Dolin (W.W. Norton)
• The Ringer by Jenny Shank (The Permanent Press)
Also in the Roundup: The finalists for the High Plains Book Awards, The Whitefish Review seeks donations for its ninth issue, The High Desert Journal announces a poetry prize, and the tally on how many books Oprah helped David Wroblewski and Cormac McCarthy sell.
Paperbacks for Spring Reading & Literary Conference Season Kicks Off
Posted: May 4th, 2011
Helen Thorpe's Colorado Book Award-winning Just Like Us is out in paperback now, and it includes an update about the lives of her subjects, four young Mexican women who grew up in Denver, two with U.S. citizenship and two without. On May 12, Thorpe will speak at the Arvada Public Library, and on May 15 she will participate in the Dean's Forum at St. John's Cathedral in Denver. In October, Just Like Us will be the featured book for One Book One Town in Carbondale, Colo.
• Brady Udall's excellent novel The Lonely Polygamist is out in paperback now too. Udall will appear at the Jackson Hole Writers Conference, along with Cristina García, Gary Ferguson, and Stephanie Elizondo Griest from June 23-26. The conference is open for registration now. (Check back on New West in late June for David Abrams' report on the conference.)
Also in the Roundup: Robin Black is this year's Lighthouse Fly-By Writer, the new Mountain West Poetry Series, lit champ Jennifer Egan to headline the Literary Sojourn in Steamboat Springs, and Women Writing the West conference tickets are on sale now.
Don't Ask Why: Tim Sandlin's 'Lydia'
Posted: April 22nd, 2011
Jackson Hole residents share this trait with comic-book superheroes: their origin stories tend to be more interesting than their immediate circumstances. That may be why the bulk of Tim Sandlin's new book, Lydia (Sourcebooks Landmark, 432 pages, $24.99), rests on a centenarian's life-tale, while the arc compelling the novel rides on a Gotham City street-level villain with the determination of Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men. The title character connects these storylines in the narrator's quest to understand human behavior.
"Why do we treat those we love so much worse than those we don't like?" the narrator, Sam, writes. "Lydia would starve before not tipping a waitress. She'd go back home if the alternative was parking in a handicapped slot, yet she lied to and browbeat the family she loved."
Tim Sandlin will visit several regional bookstores, including Valley Bookstore in Jackson (April 23, 7 p.m.), Boulder Book Store (April 25, 7:30 p.m.) Barnes & Noble stores in Fort Collins (April 26, 7 p.m.) and Colorado Springs (April 27, 7 p.m.), Denver's Tattered Cover (Colfax, April 28, 7:30 p.m.), and Cheyenne's Barnes & Noble (April 29, 7 p.m.).
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Company proposes 120 wind towers near Cheyenne
Posted: December 10th, 2011
CHEYENNE — A Jackson area company wants to lease land from
Cheyenne to build a 300-megawatt, $750 million wind farm.
Zac Brown will return to Cheyenne Frontier Days
Posted: December 10th, 2011
CHEYENNE — The Zac Brown Band will perform for a second straight
year at Cheyenne Frontier Days next summer.
Montana officials approve bison relocation to 2 reservations
Posted: December 10th, 2011
HELENA, Mont. — Montana officials on Friday approved the
relocation of 68 quarantined bison from Yellowstone National Park
to two Indian reservations amid intense debate over whether the
animal that o
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