"Hemingway and Non-Hunted Nature"

A Lecture by Rick Bass

The Community Library hosts a lecture by Rick Bass as part of the 2016 Ernest Hemingway Festival. The lecture will take place at the NexStage Theatre on Friday, September 9 at 5:30 pm.

“Probably no American writer since Hemingway has written about man-in-nature more beautifully or powerfully than Rick Bass.”—Dallas Morning News, reviewing Bass’ short fiction collection, “The Hermit’s Story.”

Rick Bass is an author and environmental activist.  His fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters (in fiction, creative nonfiction, and journalism categories), fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lyndhurst Foundation, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, nominations for Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards, a Pen/Nelson Algren Special Citation, and a General Electric Younger Writer’s Award.

His nonfiction has been anthologized in Best American Spiritual Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, and Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Science Writing. Several of his books have been named New York Times as well as Los Angeles Times Notable Books of the Year, and a New York Times Best Book of the Year. 

His stories, articles and essays have  appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative,  Men’s Journal, Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Harper’s, New York Times, Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Sunday Magazine, Boston Globe,  the Washington Post, Tin House,  Zoetrope, Orion.

To learn more about Rick Bass and his newest book For a Little While please visit http://www.rickbass.net/for-a-little-while. Tickets for the lecture are available on sale at www.comlib.org for $12 apiece.  Please call (208) 726-3493 x 123 for more information.