Breakfast In Montana · Episode 25 – Ryan Busse and Teddy “Blue” Abbott Ryan Busse worked as a top executive in the gun industry for several decades. “I sold millions of guns,” he says. But Busse became increasingly disillusioned with the NRA’s influence on the industry he loved, to the point that he felt […]

Breakfast In Montana · Episode Twenty-Four: Alan Weltzien and Thomas Savage Thomas Savage was a novelist who grew up in Beaverhead County, Montana, on a sheep ranch. He published a dozen novels but was sadly overlooked while he was alive, despite receiving resounding critical acclaim for his entire career. His work was rediscovered around the […]

Breakfast In Montana · Episode Twenty-Three – Norman Maclean and John Maclean   John Maclean, son of Montana icon Norman Maclean, has become a fine writer in his own right, and he recently published what he calls ‘a chronicle’ of his life with his father and his own relationship to Norman’s enormously successful novella, A […]

Breakfast In Montana · Episode Twenty-Two – Doug Peacock and William Kittredge   For our twenty-second episode, we had the great pleasure of sitting down for over an hour with Doug Peacock, who has been fighting to save the grizzly bear for decades now, and when you read his fabulous book, Grizzly Years, you get […]

Breakfast In Montana · Episode Twenty – One – Marc Beaudin And Robert Pirsig   For this episode, we interview Livingston poet and owner of Elk River Books Marc Beaudin, about his latest collection, Life List, which was named an Honorable Book by the latest Montana Book Awards.   And we also discuss a classic […]

Breakfast In Montana · Episode Twenty – James Welch And Joey Running Crane   For this episode, we’re breaking out of the box a little by exploring the world of literature from the perspective of a musician. Joey Running Crane is an accomplished recording artist from the Blackfeet Reservation. He has recorded with several bands, […]

Breakfast In Montana · Episode Nineteen – Tami Haaland and Madeline DeFrees For Episode Nineteen, we talk to one of our most recent poet laureates, Tami Haaland, about two of her collections, When We Wake in the Night, much of which was written while she was a mother of teenage boys, and What Does Not […]

Breakfast In Montana · Episode Eighteen Melissa Kwasny and Frank Linderman   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 […]

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 […]

Breakfast In Montana · Episode Sixteen – Sean Hill and D'Arcy McNickle 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 […]