March 11, 2003

AUTHOR RICK BASS TO READ WORKS AT BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY

    The Master of Fine Arts program at Boise State University will present environmental author Rick Bass reading a selection of his works in the Student Union Bishop Barnwell Room at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15. The event is free and open to the public.
Bass writes of the connections between humans and nature and of the ways the physical world influences the human heart. Born in Texas and trained as a geologist, Bass has adopted the West as his home and presently lives and works in the Yaak Valley in Montana. Bass has published a variety of fiction and non-fiction work, and his story “Pagans” will appear in the 2003 issue of The Idaho Review. Other publications include:

Fiction:
* “The Watch: Stories.” New York: Norton, 1989.
* “Platte River.” (stories) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
* “In the Loyal Mountains: Stories.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
* “The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness: Novellas.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
* “Where the Sea Used to Be.” (novel) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
* “Fiber.” (short story) Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
* “The Hermit’s Story: Stories.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Nonfiction:
* “The Deer Pasture.” College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. Reprinted by Norton, 1996.
* “Wild to the Heart.” New York: Norton, 1987.
* “Oil Notes.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
* “Winter: Notes from Montana.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
* “The Ninemile Wolves: An Essay.” Clark City Press, 1992. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.
* “The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
* “The Book of Yaak.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
* “The New Wolves: The Return of the Mexican Wolf to the American Southwest.” New York: Lyons Press, 1998.
* “Postwar Paris: Chronicles of a Literary Life.” Portfolio. The Paris Review 150, spring 1999.
* “Brown Dog of the Yaak: Essays on Art and Activism.” Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999.
* “Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
* “The Roadless Yaak: Reflections and Observations About One of Our Last Great Wilderness Areas.” New York: Lyons Press, 2002.

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