Although a week has passed, I’m still working through my Blood Meridian PTSD. For those unfamiliar with Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalyptic Anti-Western—let’s just say that if unless you are stone, the book will flatten you. Whatever Laura Ingalls and the Little House books are, “the kid” and Blood Meridian are not. The Ingalls family goes west [...]
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The Healing Powers of Prairie Bitching
Posted: 04/12
I have yet to hear a bad review of Alison Arngrim’s Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, yet it took me a while before I was ready to break the spine Those who have read my book know that Little House the television show was, uh, not my favorite. I have held a prudish, Jonathan Edwards-sized [...]
Searching for Western Women
Posted: 02/12
A few people have recommended Searching for Tamsen Donner to me. Given that my book was this close to being called In Search of Laura Ingalls Wilder, that seems appropriate. Author Gabrielle Burton and I are certainly kindred spirits in many ways: Irish Catholic, quirky, in awe of our heroine, with a penchant for travel [...]
River and Prairies and Donkeys and Writers
Posted: 12/11
When I met Bonnie Jo Campbell at the Montana Festival of the Book, I didn’t know who she was except a great person to cut up with over cocktails at the writers’ reception. We’d have random run-ins at the conference hotel and goof it up over piles of stale Danishes. Then I went home and [...]
