Elk River Books – Livingston

Conservation ornithologist J. Drew Lanham, author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, will give a reading at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 3, at Elk River Books. Lanham’s book is a memoir of his relationship to his family’s homestead in South Carolina, where he fell in love with the natural world. The Home Place explores what it means to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by…

Elk River Arts & Lectures presents an evening with Debra Magpie Earling Elk River Arts and Lectures will host a reading and presentation by Debra Magpie Earling, author of the award-winning book Perma Red, on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m. The free event will be held upstairs at Livingston’s Elk River Books, 120 N. Main St. Earling is the director of the University of Montana’s creative writing program and a Bitterroot-Salish tribal member. Her novel Perma Red won a…

Reading: Craig Lancaster and Elisa Lorello Thursday, April 4, 7 p.m. Elk River Books hosts the launch party for You, Me and Mr. Blue Sky, “a warm-hearted, humorous dive into the depths of love and the mysteries of how two people find their way to each other,” by husband and wife writing team Craig Lancaster and Elisa Lorello. Read more.

Reading: Allen Jones Thursday, April 25, 7 p.m. Bozeman author and publisher Allen Jones will read from his latest crime novel, Sweeney on the Rocks, in which “a former Brooklyn wise guy is exiled via Witness Protection to small town Montana, where he spends the next decade paying penance for his earlier life—only to see it all potentially shot to hell when his past catches up to him.”

Reading: Melissa Kwasny Thursday, May 2, 7 p.m. Montana poet Melissa Kwasny reads from her first nonfiction book, Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear. “From brain-tanning elk hide in Montana to shearing wild sheep off the coast of Maine, Kwasny investigates the cultural history of fashion, highlighting people who are working toward preserving humans’ relationship with animals.”

Native Voices with C. Marie Fuhrman Thursday, May 16, 7 p.m. Elk River Arts & Lectures will host a discussion with award-winning poet and writer Cindy Fuhrman, co-editor of the new Tupelo Press anthology, Native Voices.

Poetry reading with Chris Dombrowski Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m. Chris Dombrowski, author of Earth Again and Body of Water, reads from his new collection, Ragged Anthem. Read more.

Reading: Joe Wilkins Thursday, June 6, 7 p.m. Joe Wilkins, poet and author of the award-winning memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, returns to Elk River Books to read from his debut novel, Fall Back Down When I Die.

Reading: John Taliaferro Thursday, June 20, 7 p.m. John Taliaferro will read from his latest book, Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West, and talk about “the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation.”  

Reading: Marc Johnson on Burton K. Wheeler Thursday, July 11, 7 p.m. Journalist Marc Johnson reads from his new book, Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, a biography of Montana’s independent and controversial four-term senator.

Poetry: Michael Earl Craig and Anna Elkins Thursday, July 25, 7 p.m. Former Montana poet laureate and Livingston’s most literary farrier Michael Earl Craig will read from his new collection, Woods and Clouds Interchangeable. He’ll be joined by Fulbright Fellowship-winning poet Anna Elkins.