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Episode Thirty-Five – Mary Jane Nealon and Sandra Alcosser

September 10, 2023 | Comment

  For the final episode of Breakfast in Montana, Russell Rowland and Charles Finn talk to poet Mary Jane Nealon about her remarkable memoir, Beautiful Unbroken, which was the recipient of the Bakeless Prize for Non-fiction, which is awarded by the Breadloaf Foundation. Nealon’s account of working with AIDS patients in New York City just […]

Episode Thirty-Four – James Lee Burke and A. B. Guthrie

July 20, 2023 | Comment

This episode is a bit of a departure from our usual format. Russell had the opportunity to do an interview with James Lee Burke for Distinctly Montana Magazine about the work of A.B. Guthrie. Both Russell and James are huge Guthrie fans, and Burke got to know him after he moved to Missoula in the […]

Episode Thirty-Three – Shann Ray and John Stands in Timber

June 8, 2023 | Comment

  We’re happy to introduce a new co-host in this episode, as Montana Book Award winner Charles Finn (On a Benediction of Wind) joins Russell Rowland in a conversation with their old friend Shann Ray. Shann has published several books in a wide variety of genres, including American Copper and his excellent short story debut, […]

Episode Thirty-Two – Charles Finn and Barbara Michelman, Donna Lucey and Evelyn Cameron

March 10, 2023 | 1 Comment

    On a Benediction of  Wind was just named the winner of the Montana Book Award days before we recorded this episode, so we’re thrilled to feature the beautiful poetry of Charles Finn, and talk to him and Barbara Michelman about how they came to create this fabulous collaboration of poetry and black and […]

Episode Thirty-One: Elise Atchison and Thomas McGuane

October 11, 2022 | Comment

  Elise Atchison’s debut novel, Crazy Mountain, was the recipient of the Eludia Award, an award given to first-time women novelists over forty. She worked for over ten years on this book, which features a completely different point of view for each chapter. The novel takes place in a fictional region where the typical struggle […]

Episode Thirty – Debra Magpie Earling and James Welch

August 22, 2022 | Comment

  This episode pairs one of the most esteemed Native American authors of our time with a writer who started writing because of his influence and guidance. Debra Magpie Earling took her very first writing class from James Welch at the University of Washington, and would later study with him again at Cornell. Earling’s debut […]

Episode Twenty-Nine – Mark Gibbons and David Dale

June 24, 2022 | Comment

The current poet laureate of Montana is a working class gentleman from Missoula who grew up in Alberton, where his father was a laborer. Mark has also worked in labor, driving truck and moving furniture. He brings an honest, unvarnished attitude to his work, and we have been huge fans for years. And and terms […]

Episode Twenty-Eight – Greg Keeler and Beatrice Murphy

May 26, 2022 | Comment

For this episode, we were so honored to have a chance to sit down with our old friend, poet Greg Keeler. Greg taught at Montana State University for forty years, and toward the end of his career, he started writing a sonnet every day. He continues this practice to this day, but in 2018, Elk […]

Episode Twenty-Seven – Tom Harpole and Andrew Garcia

February 19, 2022 | 1 Comment

For this episode, we had the pleasure of talking with our good friend Tom Harpole about his collection, Regarding Willingness. Tom wrote for national magazines for decades, but this collection consists of personal essays that Tom wrote through the years about his adventures in various parts of the world, including skydiving in Russia, and going […]

Episode Twenty-Six – Stephen Ambrose, Stephenie Ambrose-Tubbs, and Corrie Williamson

January 11, 2022 | Comment

Breakfast In Montana · Episode Twenty-Six – Corrie Williamson, Stephen Ambrose. and Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs This past year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Undaunted Courage, which has become known as the bible for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This book, written by Stephen Ambrose, had the feel of a novel, and captured […]

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