For our eighteenth episode, we talk to Montana Poet Laureate Melissa Kwasny about her most recent book, a departure from her usual work called Putting on the Dog. Melissa was commissioned to write this book about the nature of clothes and the materials we use to make our clothing. She did five years of […]

For this episode of Breakfast in Montana, Aaron and Russell talk about two very powerful collections of stories, Black Cherries, published in 1931 by Grace Stone Coates. One of the stories from this collection, “Wild Plums,” was included in a collection of the best 100 stories from the 20th Century, compiled by John Updike. The […]

For our nineteenth episode, we discuss two powerful books, first a collection of contemporary poetry by recent Montana arrival Sean Hill, a Stegner Fellow from Stanford University, as well as a veteran of two other graduate programs, at the University of Georgia and Houston University. His collection Blood Ties and Brown Liquor, follows several generations […]

For Episode Fifteen, Aaron Parrett and Russell Rowland have a fabulous conversation with John Taliaferro, biographer extraordinaire, about his new book, Grinnell, about George Bird Grinnell, the man who was called the Father of American Conservation at the time of his death.         We also talk about a couple of Grinnell’s own […]

For this episode of Breakfast in Montana, a podcast about Montana books, we discuss two award-winning novels, both by women. The Flicker of Old Dreams, by Susan Henderson, won the Spur Award for Fiction, as well as the Willa Cather Award, and is a finalist for the High Plains Book Award for fiction. Mildred Walker’s […]

In this episode, we discuss two books from Missoula writers. Chris La Tray’s book One Sentence Journal won this year’s Montana Book Award, and it’s an interesting collection of vignettes, and aphorisms that take you deep into the heart of a man who is searching for his place in Montana. We believe the second book […]

For episode twelve, we discuss two books by legendary Livingston writers. Tim Cahill was a writer for Rolling Stone back when they were first getting off the ground, and went on to co-found Outside Magazine, which published most of the stories in his collection, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh. William ‘Gatz’ Hjortsberg published many novels, the […]

In the eleventh episode of Breakfast in Montana, hosts Aaron Parrett and Russell Rowland talk about an unlikely pairing between the latest collection, All That Held Us, by contemporary poet Henrietta Goodman, who hails from North Carolina, and The Hawkline Monster, a novel by acclaimed author Richard Brautigan.

For our tenth episode, we discuss the new collection of poetry, Woods and Clouds Interchangeable, from former Montana Poet Laureate Earl Craig, one of the most entertaining and engaging writers with who we’ve had the pleasure of talking. Earl goes into great depth about the process not only of writing, but of how he put […]

For our ninth episode, we break away from our usual format of talking about two Montana books to focus on a singular Montana writer, Richard Wheeler. Richard has published more than 80 novels in his lifetime, despite not getting published until he was almost fifty years old. His novels have been finalists for the Spur […]