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SUMMARY:"Thirty Below" author Cassidy Randall live reading & discussion at Shakepeare & Co.
DESCRIPTION:Author Cassidy Randall makes a visit to Shakespeare & Co. in Missoula for a live reading and discussion of her book “Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali” 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Thursday\, February 5\n\n\n\n\n\nShakespeare & Co.\, in partnership with the University of Montana Environmental Studies Program\, is delighted to host a reading and discussion with award-winning author Cassidy Randall on Thursday\, February 5 at 7:00 pm. Randall\, a University of Montana alum and the 2026 Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer in Environmental Studies\, will read from her new book Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali (Abrams\, 2025). This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nAbout Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali:Cassidy Randall draws on extensive archival research and original interviews to tell an engrossing\, edge-of-the-seat adventure story about a forgotten group of climbers who had the audacity to believe that women could walk alone in extraordinary and treacherous heights. \n\n\n\nGrace Hoeman dreamed of standing on top of Denali. The tallest peak in North America\, the fierce polar mountain loomed large in many climbers’ imaginations\, and Grace\, a doctor in Alaska\, had come close to the top\, only to be turned back by altitude sickness and a storm that took the lives of seven fellow climbers in one remorseless blow. \n\n\n\nOther expeditions denied her a place because of her gender\, and when a letter arrived from a climber in California named Arlene Blum\, who’d also been barred from expeditions—unless she stayed in base camp and cooked for the men\, Grace got a defiant idea: she would organize and lead the first-ever all-female ascent of the frozen Alaskan peak. \n\n\n\nEveryone told the “Denali Damsels\,” as the team called themselves\, that it couldn’t be done: Women were incapable of climbing mountains on their own. Men had walked on the moon; women still had not stood on the highest points on Earth. But these six women were unwilling to be limited by sexists and misogynists. They pushed past barriers in society at large\, the climbing world\, and their own bodies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Biography:Cassidy Randall is an award-winning writer who tells stories on the environment\, adventure\, and people who expand human potential. Her stories have appeared in Rolling Stone\, National Geographic\, the New York Times\, TIME\, Atavist\, Outside\, and Men’s Journal\, among others. She wrote The Hard Parts with Paralympian Oksana Masters\, which won an Alex Award from the American Library Association and was listed as one of the best sports books of the year by the Times. Her work has been awarded the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal in Adventure Writing\, short-listed for the True Story Award\, and included in The Year’s Best Sports Writing. She lives in Montana. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	Related
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/thirty-below-author-cassidy-randall-live-reading-discussion-at-shakepeare-co/
LOCATION:Shakespeare & Co.\, 103 S. 3rd St. W.\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59801\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Evelyn in Transit" author David Guterson  in conversation with novelist Emily Ruskovich at Shakespeare & Company
DESCRIPTION:“Evelyn in Transit” author David Guterson sits in conversation with novelist Emily Ruskovich at Shakespeare & Company in Missoula 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Tuesday\, February 3\n\n\n\n\n\nShakespeare & Co. hosts a reading and discussion with award-winning author David Guterson on Tuesday\, February 3 at 7:00 pm. Guterson will read from his new novel Evelyn in Transit (W. W. Norton & Co.\, January 2026) and be in conversation with celebrated novelist Emily Ruskovich. This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nAbout Evelyn in Transit:A crystalline short novel about defying expectations\, hitting the road\, and seeking the right way to live.Radically open-minded\, formidably strong\, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others\, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She’s easily bored\, unsuited to life at school\, asks odd questions about faith and time\, and sees through conventions others take for granted. Seeking to be true to herself\, she hitchhikes across the American West taking odd jobs. \n\n\n\nIn distant Tibet\, another life unfolds as remote from Evelyn’s as can be: the life of a boy named Tsering\, raised as a Buddhist monk in the mountains of Tibet\, who eventually becomes a high lama. \n\n\n\nAnd yet\, their lives are strangely linked—as Evelyn discovers when a trio of Buddhist lamas show up at her door to announce that her five-year-old son Cliff is the seventh reincarnation of the illustrious Norbu Rinpoche\, recently deceased. The lamas’ visit sets off a family crisis and a media firestorm over Cliff’s future. \n\n\n\nWritten in a spare\, precise style of extraordinary beauty\, full of surprising humor and luminosity\, Evelyn in Transit delivers much-needed insight and compassion about humanity’s strivings for transcendence\, and what it might mean to “live the right way.” \n\n\n\nAuthor Biographies:David Guterson is the author of thirteen books\, including the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Snow Falling on Cedars\, which was made into a major motion picture\, translated into twenty-five languages\, and has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. He lives on Bainbridge Island\, Washington. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle on Hoodoo Mountain. She is the fourth American ever to win the Dublin International Literary Award for her debut novel\, Idaho\, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Emily has also won an O. Henry Award\, The Pacific Northwest Book Award\, and the Idaho Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Guardian\, The New York Times\, Zoetrope\, One Story\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana\, where she teaches in the MFA program. She lives in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three small children. Her second book\, Nightjar\, is a collection of stories forthcoming from Random House in 2026. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	Related
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/evelyn-in-transit-author-david-guterson-in-conversation-with-novelist-emily-ruskovich-at-shakespeare-company/
LOCATION:Shakespeare & Co.\, 103 S. 3rd St. W.\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Live Reading,Book Readings,Book Signing,Literature
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SUMMARY:Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts - live reading by author Brad Bigelow at Shakespeare & Co.
DESCRIPTION:Meet Missoula-based author Brad Bigelow at Shakespeare & Co. book store hosting a reading and discussion of his debut book “Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts” from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Wednesday\, January 14\n\n\n\n\n\nShakespeare & Co. is delighted to host a reading and discussion with Missoula-based author Brad Bigelow on Wednesday\, January 14 at 7:00 pm. Bigelow will read from his debut book Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts (Bison Books\, January 2026). This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nAbout Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts:Featured writer for the Washington Post at twenty. Author of a hit novel at twenty-one. Coaxed Greta Garbo out of seclusion for a Hollywood party. Ghostwrote the memoirs of New York’s most famous madam\, Polly Adler. It’s no wonder Virginia Faulkner was spoken of as the next Dorothy Parker. \n\n\n\nBut Faulkner also struggled with alcoholism and depression\, lost respect for her own work as a writer\, and at age forty-two returned to her hometown of Lincoln\, Nebraska\, unsure what her next move would be. Asked to assemble an anthology to celebrate Nebraska\, she joined the University of Nebraska Press and soon found herself fascinated by the challenges of work as an editor. The press\, she realized\, offered her the opportunity to champion the work of the writer she respected above all others: Willa Cather. And after finding an ideal colleague and life partner in Bernice Slote\, Faulkner launched a series of books that helped establish Cather as one of America’s greatest writers. \n\n\n\nIn Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts\, Brad Bigelow tells Faulkner’s story—one that’s lively\, irreverent\, and rich in its commitment to literature of lasting importance. Though her own books have since been forgotten\, Faulkner left a legacy of achievement and success in American literature against social and personal odds\, and her voice and spirit shine forth in the pages of this book. \n\n\n\nAuthor Brad Bigelow\n\n\n\nAuthor Biography:Brad Bigelow is a writer\, teacher\, and editor living in Missoula\, Montana. He is the editor of the Recovered Books series for Boiler House Press and has been writer of the Neglected Books website since 2006. With more than six hundred articles\, the site celebrates the work of little-known writers like Virginia Faulkner. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	Related
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/virginia-faulkner-a-life-in-two-acts-live-reading-by-author-brad-bigelow-at-shakespeare-co/
LOCATION:Shakespeare & Co.\, 103 S. 3rd St. W.\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Live Reading,Book Readings,Book Signing,Literature,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:"Into This Radiance: Kayaking Flathead Lake" author Gary W. Hawk at Shakespeare & Co.
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare & Co. hosts a reading and discussion with Missoula-based author Gary W. Hawk of his new book “Into This Radiance: Kayaking Flathead Lake” 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Thursday\, September 25\n\n\n\n\n\nShakespeare & Co. is delighted to host a reading and discussion with Missoula-based author Gary W. Hawk on Thursday\, September 25 at 7:00 pm. Hawk will read from his new book Into This Radiance: Kayaking Flathead Lake (Quercus Publishing\, 2025). This event is free and open to the public.About Into This Radiance:In Into This Radiance Gary Hawk shares his complex relationship with an immense place—Flathead Lake\, the largest US body of freshwater west of the Great Lakes. Hawk has paddled a sea kayak for over nineteen years\, and he takes the reader along with him as he explores the lake’s bays\, islands\, and the distances between them. In the process\, he shares his reverence for this inland sea\, his keen naturalist’s eye for detail\, and his observations\, questions\, and insights from various wisdom traditions. \n\n\n\nYear after year\, in many kinds of weather\, he encounters\, grows to understand\, and attends to the lake as though it were a sentient being. But even as he turns his attention outward toward the lake and all who depend on it\, he delves into an interior landscape. Here\, he invites the reader to stay open to what at first seems strange or threatening. \n\n\n\nThe book’s short\, lyric essays and poetic passages offer encouragement to live wisely and thoughtfully in a fragile and changing world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGary W. Hawk began his higher education at Stanford University and continued his studies at The Pacific School of Religion. After serving two churches in Northern California and one in Helena\, Montana\, he balanced three careers\, teaching for nineteen years in the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana\, practicing the craft of fine woodworking\, and listening to people in a counseling office. He also continues to write. Poems and essays have appeared in Camas\, Gray’s Sporting Journal\, The Christian Century\, Connotations\, Northern Lights\, and Awake in the World\, Vol.3. He is the father of two grown sons\, Andy and Kyle\, and is married to psychologist Joyce L. Hocker. He paddles a sea kayak named Bluebird and\, paraphrasing poet Theodore Roethke\, ventures out on the wildest wave and tries to be still. Gary lives in Missoula\, Montana\, writes at www.ospreypaddler.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	Related
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/into-this-radiance-kayaking-flathead-lake-author-gary-w-hawk-at-shakespeare-co/
LOCATION:Shakespeare & Co.\, 103 S. 3rd St. W.\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59801\, United States
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