Author and teacher Sharman Apt Russell is deeply rooted in southwestern New Mexico — she and her husband, Peter, moved to the Mimbres Valley four decades ago to pursue their back-to-the-land dreams — but researching her 18 books of fiction and nonfiction has taken her as far away as Africa a…
Author Corey Recko takes us back to a largely forgotten conflict in his latest book, The Colfax County War: Violence and Corruption in Territorial New Mexico.
Severe drought conditions impacting Lake Powell could lead to what Zak Podmore describes as a series of cascading consequences throughout the Colorado River Basin.
Deborah J. Ledford's Havoc and Spanish author Juan Gómez Bárcena’s Not Even the Dead are timely reads with Southwest ties.
The author will discuss her novel at an event at Garcia Street Books on Sunday, June 9.
The comedy writer is helming a number of projects right now, and they all stem from an exciting year of work on a show that sadly never aired.
If you’re driving from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, you might not be aware you’re passing by billions of years of geologic time.
Anthony Doerr shines a light on books as instruments of change
The Pulitzer Prize winner will in conversation with Bryan Curtis on Saturday, May 18, at the Santa Fe International Literary Festival.
Hua Hsu pours his heart out on his process
Sometimes, says the famed memoirist, the process of making an award-winning memoir means actually making the work a little less personal.
Author John Vaillant has a climate change PSA
Spoiler alert: Global warming has unleashed a new era of wildfire behavior. The writer will be in conversation with fellow climate change author William deBuys at the Santa Fe International Literary Festival.
Archives offer a peek at an artist's life at its most unguarded
Author and Georgia O'Keeffe biographer Roxana Robinson will lead a tour for lucky Santa Fe International Literary Festival-goers.
Thirty years after the publication of her iconic Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott, who will be speaking at the upcoming Santa Fe International Literary Festival, has just released her 20th novel and her words are what we all need right now.
Native Edge will feature new and rereleased works of genre fiction and experimental writing from Native authors.
The biographer may be busy writing or researching his own work, but he always finds time to connect writers to other writers.
You may have heard of some art gallery owners who say, under their breath, of course, that they would prefer to see only serious collectors over regular foot traffic e…
Erica Elliott's second memoir, From Mountains to Medicine: Scaling the Heights in Search of My Calling, is a no-holds-barred account of a doctor whose motto is "never waste a bad experience."
David Ryan's life on the trail
The author has spent the last 20 years wandering the state of New Mexico, and he chatted with Pasatiempo about his latest guide book.
The author calls Whiskey Tender an attempt to illustrate what it was like to grow up balancing the concept of the American dream against "the realities of being a Native kid in a small town."
Walking in circles
Experiencing the power of the labyrinth can help us find our center.
Los Alamos author’s debut novel blends facts with the fantastical.
A life in words
Luci Tapahonso, inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo nation, was honored by the New Mexico Book Association in February and chatted with Pasatiempo.
With the 150th anniversary of her birth last year, “her reputation has never been higher than it is today,” says author Benjamin Taylor.
Author Sarah Scoles will visit Collected Works to discuss her new book, Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons.
Big Medicine Pretty Water is based on the life of the author's great-grandmother, a Native American woman abducted by a soldier at Fort Garland, Colorado, and his grandmother.
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