Updates about Mary Clearman Blew and Rick Bass

from Chérie Newman

Mary Clearman Blew has won a Western Heritage Award for her novel, Jackalope Dreams (Nebraska Press 2008 ).

Click here to listen to Mary Clearman Blew on The Write Question.

And Rick Bass, most famous for his nonfiction environmental writing, is devoting more time these days to fiction, his first writing love. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish Bass’s third novel, The Lives of the Browns, in the fall of 2010.

Click here to listen to Rick Bass on The Write Question.

Read Jenny Shank's full update about Blew, Bass, Thomas McGuane and other regional authors at New West.net.