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Rick Bass

Rick Bass is the author of more than thirty books. He lives in northwest Montana’s Yaak Valley, where he is working with the Montana Project (montanaproject.org) and the Forest Refuge Alliance to designate the nation’s first Climate Refuge. He teaches writing workshops and in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. 

Nonfiction  – 

The Thinness of the Soil

I live in a place that amazes me. This is the condition of love: the eye and the soul love that which they behold as familiar, and are amazed by that which is not and may never be familiar. This …
Fiction  – 

The Blue Tree

It’s the afternoon of the day before Christmas Eve, and still there is no tree. Somehow the week has just slipped away. It’s taken them forever to get packed and ready for the trip to their cabin in the woods, …
Nonfiction  – 

Two Museums

When our Parisian friend Isabelle asked which part of the Louvre I wanted to look at first, I responded like a cretin, an infidel, and told her the nineteenth-century French painters: the equivalent, I suppose, were someone to come to …