
Rick Bass is the author of twenty-two books. His first short story collection, The Watch, set in Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and his 2002 collection, The Hermit’s Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Bass’s stories have also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and have been collected in The Best American Short Stories.
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/bass_rick/
Considering Wallace Stegner on the centennial of his birth.
An activist pauses to consider the contradictions of a life bent on saving that which we are also apt to consume.
Wolf reintroduction at Yellowstone has yielded unanticipated miracles.
Suddenly we're not the same nation. There is in almost all of us a place -- even if some days only a small, postage stamp-sized place—that is off-balance, frightened, pensive, even confused.