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News releases from Yellowstone National Park.
A plan to return 67 cabin units that are presently used for concessioner employee housing in the Old Faithful Lodge Area to visitor use and construct a new dormitory in the Old Faithful Administrative Area has been approved. Read more Yellowstone National Park will be accepting public requests April 6-8 for those interested in receiving a 2012 firewood collection permit. Read more A joint investigation by several law enforcement agencies, including the National Park Service, has resulted in the arrest and conviction of a man for possession of child pornography. Read moreOld Faithful Cabin Repurposing and Dormitory Construction Plan Approved
Yellowstone To Issue 2012 Firewood Collection Permits
Investigation Leads to Child Porn Conviction
Reflecting the unique character of Jackson Hole.
Last May, Al Moreno woke up in a hospital bed with his body shattered. With time, he learned he had been blindsided by a delivery truck while biking north on the road to Moose... Read more It's early. The track team files onto a bus and disappears into the predawn darkness by 6:10 a.m. Bleary-eyed soccer team members start arriving, hauling duffle bags or clutching pillows, cleats slung across their shoulders... Read more Members of a grassroots group urged the community at a Monday night forum to avoid and ignore anti-abortion protestors this week... Read moreBiker on long road to recovery
Rollin' with the athletes
Don't scrap with abortion protesters, group advises
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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. Read more 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. Read more 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.). Read moreReading The West & High Plains Book Awards Finalists Announced
Paperbacks for Spring Reading & Literary Conference Season Kicks Off
Don't Ask Why: Tim Sandlin's 'Lydia'
Check out the terraced limestone pools of the Mammoth Hot Springs, an amazing view year-round.