Michael P. Branch discusses and reads from Rants From The Hill (Roost Books, 2017), a collection of essays about (to borrow from the book’s subtitle) packrats, bobcats, wildfires, curmudgeons, a drunken Mary Kay Lady & other encounters with the wild in Nevada’s high desert. https://michaelbranchwriter.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_a…

Robert Aquinas McNally discusses and reads from Cast Out Of Eden: The Untold Story Of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, And The American Wilderness (Bison Books, 2024), a selective biography examining the complex interplay between Muir’s love of the land and his troubling racial biases. https://www.ramcnally.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter/X:…

Robert Miltner discusses and reads from Horse Skull Moon (SurVision Books, 2024), a chapbook of prose poems about landscapes, the passage of time, & our place in the face of such vastness. www.pw.org/directory/writers/robert_miltner www.survisionmagazine.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter/X: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_…

Jared Stanley discusses and reads from So Tough (Saturnalia Books, 2024), a book-length poem deeply couched in the West, where landscapes & human lives, the banal & the extraordinary collide in both violence & in hopefulness. https://jaredstanleyinfo.wordpress.com/ https://saturnaliabooks.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Faceboo…

Jenn Windrow discusses her novel Evil’s Unlikely Assassin (Irreverent Publishing, 2018), the first volume in the urban fantasy Alexis Black series about a reluctant vampire charged with slaying other creatures of the night, a task carried out with a ragtag team of misfits and a heaping dose of snark. https://jennwindrow.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail…

Russell Jones and Jason Wrubell, the authors behind the Lewis Allan pen name, discuss and read from Mouse In The Box (Stretched Studio LLC, 2023), a legal thriller in which criminal defense attorney, Mason Mitchell, finds himself taking on two high-profile cases that rattle his faith in the system and put him in very real physical peril. https://ww…

Seanan McGuire discusses the eighteenth novel in the October Daye series, The Innocent Sleep (DAW Books, 2023), in which Tybalt, King of Cats, seeks to restore a reality rewritten by Titania, Mother of Illusions. And to reforge his mostly forgotten marriage to Toby Daye. https://www.seananmcguire.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author…

John Shirley discusses and reads from Axle Bust Creek (Pinnacle Books, 2022), the first novel in the Cleve Trewe western trilogy, in which our hero comes to the titular town, Axle Bust, to claim his uncle’s mine and finds corporate intrigue, merciless outlaws, and a charmingly free-thinking woman. Plus music by John Shirley and the Screaming Geezer…

Katya Cengel discusses and reads from Straitjackets And Lunch Money, a harrowing account of the authors time in a psychosomatic ward, viewed from the perspective of the 10-year-old child who underwent the experience and from that of the journalist that she would eventually become. https://katyacengel.com/ https://www.woodhallpress.com/ abookanditsa…

Bernard Schopen discusses and reads from his novel Drowning In The Desert (University of Nevada Press, 2023), a “Nevada noir” in which an ex-deputy sheriff, Norman “Fats” Wrangle, sifts through the lies and corruption of the Silver State while navigating his own deeply flawed character. https://unpress.nevada.edu/ https://baobabpress.com/ abookandi…

Casey Bell discusses and reads from Little Fury (Metatron Press, 2023), a collection of short stories wherein the naturalistic and the surreal blend to tell the tales of women seeking a sense of place, self-care, and social justice in a less-than-welcoming world. Plus music by Fine Motor. “Mother’s Lungs” by Fine Motor comes from the Exotic Fever R…

Mark Arnold discusses and reads from Stars Of Walt Disney Productions (BearManor Media, 2022), a reference book detailing hundreds of performers, household names and vaguely familiar faces alike, who appeared in the studio’s movies and TV shows from 1929 to 1983. https://bearmanor-digital.myshopify.com// abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_aut…

John Mulhouse discusses and reads from Still Lives, New Mexico: Unmarked Graves In The Land Of Enchantment, a collection of photographs by Richard Baron (& text by Mulhouse), evoking uncertain lives and unknown stories of those who lived and died in the sparse landscapes on New Mexico. https://cityofdust.com/still-lives/ https://cityofdust.blogspot…

Marc Laidlaw discusses and reads from his novel, Underneath The Oversea, the culmination of the Gorlen Vizenfirthe stories, about a gargoyle-handed bard, a human-handed gargoyle, and the family that they’ve built in the fantastical world of Ique. “Sombre Hombre” by Marc Laidlaw comes from the independently released EP, Sombre Hombre. Used with perm…

Huckleberry Rahr discusses and reads from Wolf Healer, the first book in the Jade Stone Chronicles, which explores the struggles of self-definition, community, & acceptance associated with teenage, LGBTQ identity, & living with a werewolf pack. https://huckleberryauthor.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor…

Jill Creech Bauer discusses & reads from The Soul’s Echo: Thirteen Pieces Of Short Fiction (Jill Creech Bauer, 2021), a collection of stories, some speculative, some literary, all steeped in deep empathy for those struggling to face the challenges of life & human connections. abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauth…

Danny Nielsen discusses and reads from Straight Flossin’ And Other Stories Of The American West (Whistling Rabbit Press, 2022), a collection of essays about the author’s wanderings through landscapes filled with punishing heat, ornery skunks, menacing wildfires, and strange stewards of the desert. https://www.whistlingrabbitpress.com/ abookanditsau…

Robert Aquinas McNally discusses and reads from The Modoc War: A Story Of Genocide At The Dawn Of America’s Gilded Age (Bison Books, 2017), which tells of the U. S. government’s violent 1872-1873 campaign to at first remove and then to extinguish the indigenous Modoc people in what would become California’s only full-blown Indian war. www.ramcnally…

Claire Stanford discusses and reads from Happy For You, a novel which follows Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto as she struggles to navigate what it means to be happy in regards to relationships, ethnicity, and working for the third-most popular internet company to develop an app to define, quantify, and augment…happiness. www.clairestanford.com abookandits…

Sholeh Wolpé discusses and reads from Abacus Of Loss: A Memoir In Verse (The University Of Arkansas Press, 2022), which blends forms to explore the nature of memory and examine the author’s tumultuous life, its losses & gains, its downfalls & windfalls, its subtractions & additions. www.sholehwolpe.com www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2022/10/…

Jacci Turner discusses and reads from her new YA novel, Tree Singer (Lucky Bat Books, 2021), which tells the story of fifteen-year-old Mayten, sent on an unexpected quest to confront an unnatural blight on the forests, a journey that also reveals secrets about her world and herself. www.jacciturner.com www.luckybatbooks.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.…

Shwa Laytart discusses and reads from F*d-Up Poetry For F*d-Up People In F*d-Up Times (AvantPop Publishing, 2021), a collection of verse that weaves comedy and activism to reflect upon environmentalism, family, music, food, social justice, and more. www.avantpopbooks.com shwalaytart.contently.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Face…

Suzanne Roberts discusses and reads from Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, And Other Difficulties (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), a collection of essays that explore, in deeply personal ways, how we deal with the distresses of loss, illness, relationships, travel, and the limitations of our physical beings. https://www.suzanneroberts.net/ aboo…

Mark Maynard discusses and reads from Grind (Torrey House Press, 2012), a collection of stories based in and around Reno, Nevada, depicting the unique relationship of the city with an array of characters seeking to come to terms with their place, geographically and personally. https://www.markmaynard.info/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_a…

Katya Cengel discusses and reads from Bluegrass Baseball: A Year In The Minor League Life (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), which introduces us to the uncertain life – the hopes, dreams, triumphs, & disappointments – of minor league players, staff, fans and families. https://katyacengel.com/ Katya Cengel on Ukraine: https://lithub.com/when-stor…

John M. Mulhouse discusses and reads from Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, And Hidden History (America Through Time, 2020), which explores the land of enchantment’s forgotten corners and the stories that they tell. Plus music by Naked Raygun. “Living In The Good Times” by Naked Raygun comes from the Wax Trax! Release, Ove…

Leslie Cook discusses and reads from her debut novel, Ethereal’s Call (Cook/Fulton Books, 2021), about a young, headstrong woman, raised by witches and swept into a world of fae, where she faces all manner of fantastic creatures and begins to learn secrets about her own past and family history. https://www.etherealscall.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail…

Jill Creech Bauer discusses and reads from The Nine Lives Of John Aslin (Jill Creech Bauer, 2020), a non-fiction novel about a man sentenced to life in prison for an accidental death, and about the personal and family history underlying the incident and its repercussions. Plus, an interview with John Eric Aslin. https://jillcreechbauer.com/ abookan…

Curtis Bradley Vickers discusses and reads from This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel (University Of Nevada Press, 2021), which presents a harrowing braided narrative of wildfire “hotshots” and cattle rustlers in the New West. https://curtisbradleyvickers.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_boo…

Michael P. Branch discusses and reads from On The Trail Of The Jackalope: How A Legend Captured The World’s Imagination And Helped Us Cure Cancer (Pegasus Books, 2022), which documents the cultural and scientific impact of horned rabbits, both real (?) and imagined. https://michaelbranchwriter.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Fa…

Susan Devan Harness discusses and reads from Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir Of Transracial Adoption (University Of Nebraska Press, 2018), in which the author recounts her journey to learn about her family and personal history, all the while wrestling with questions of racial stereotypes, cultural identity, and self-acceptance. https://susanharness.com…

B. J. West discusses and reads from Teeth Of The Rakshasa (Xenophile Press 2021), the first book in his cyberpunk series, SpliceFire, which recounts the adventures of hacker extraordinaire, Spider King, as he faces a world where neurointerfaces make the man and corporate interests dominate public life. bjwest.net www.xenophilepress.com/ www.StoryFo…

Chuck Rogers discusses and reads from his novel Bastard Of The Apocalypse: The Earth Died Screaming (Rogers, 2019), in which Benjamin Frame finds love, violence, and mutated bears at the end of the world as we know it. www.facebook.com/ChuckRogersAdventures www.graphicaudio.net abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author…

Michael Carter discusses and reads from In The Belly Of The Bell-Shaped Curve (Carter/iUniverse, 2020), a satirical novel about a frustrated claims adjuster seeking to improve his lot with a bad idea and misuse of chimpanzees. www.michaellcarter.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author

Mark Arnold discusses and reads from “Aaaaalllviiinnn!”: The Story Of Ross Bagdasarian Sr., Liberty Records, Format Films And The Alvin Show (BearManor Media, 2019), an account of the life and works of the creator of The Chipmunks, “Witch Doctor,” and more, a.k.a. David Seville. bearmanor-digital.myshopify.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com…

Linda Kay Hardie reads and discusses her short story, "Cooking With Butter," which appears in the anthology, Peace, Love, And Crime (Untreed Reads, 2020), a collection of crime fiction inspired by the songs of the '60s. https://www.untreedreads.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

John McNelis O'Keefe discusses and reads from Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence And National Power In The Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, 2021), a historical examination of how the experiences of migrants shaped American notions of citizenship, residency, and belonging.Por Marc Oxoby

Lilace Mellin Guignard discusses and reads from When Everything Beyond The Walls Is Wild (Texas A&M University Press, 2019), which blends memoir and analysis of gender in outdoor recreation and activity. www/tentofonesown.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

A. L. Nielsen discusses and reads from his poetry collection, Tray (Make Now Press, 2017), which explores the intersection of media, history, and culture in relation to the killing of Trayvon Martin (and also other matters). www.makenowpress.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Stephen L. Bruneau discusses and reads from his novel, The SCOTUS Affair (Bruneau/iUniverse, 2019), a thriller filled with political intrigue and the second book in the Dimase Augustin series. https://bruneaubooks.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Katya Cengel discusses and reads from her latest book, From Chernobyl With Love: Reporting From The Ruins Of The Soviet Union (Potomac Books, 2019), which tells the story of the author's early journalistic career in Latvia and Ukraine. https://katyacengel.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Nick Neely discusses and reads from Alta California: From San Diego To San Francisco, A Journey On Foot To Rediscover The Golden State (Counterpoint, 2019), in which the author walks in the footsteps of the 1769 Gaspar de Portola expedition. http://www.nickneely.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Suzanne Roberts discusses and reads from her memoir/travel essay collection, Bad Tourist: Misadventures In Love And Travel, an "anti-guidebook" on learning about the world and one's own cultural (& emotional) blind spots. www.suzanneroberts.net abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Shaun T. Griffin discusses and reads from his latest collection of poetry, The Monastery Of Stars, which explores social justice, the natural world, and personal loss & what remains. https://kelsaybooks.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Kendra Atleework discusses and reads from her memoir, Miracle Country, which describes growing up in the Owens Valley (California), and coming to terms with its harsh landscape, as well as with her own sense of place and family. https://www.atleework.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Cheryll Glotfelty (editor, with Eve Quesnel) discusses and reads from The Biosphere And The Bioregion: Essential Writings Of Peter Berg, which compiles keys texts by and about this founding figure of contemporary environmental thought. abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Christopher Coake discusses and reads from his new collection of stories, You Would Have Told Me Not To, which explores fraught relationships in the era of toxic masculinity and the #MeToo movement. https://www.christophercoake.info/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Nikki Reimer discusses and reads from her poetry collection My Heart Is A Rose Manhattan, which examines themes ranging from grief, to social media, to Canadian identity, to horse statues. https://reimerwrites.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.comPor Marc Oxoby

Chris Bucholtz discusses and reads from his book Thunderbolts Triumphant: The 362nd Fighter Group vs Germany's Wehmacht, which documents the World War II missions of these young pilots, using both contemporary records and personal accounts from the men who flew the missions.Por Marc Oxoby

Michael P. Branch discusses and reads from his essay collection How to Cuss in Western, which humorously examines life, family, nature and other subjects from the perspective of a self-proclaimed desert rat of Nevada's high desert.Por Marc Oxoby