Show : X Mt tbe Arts Zane cake & Entertainment Montana authors visit i '' By Harold Schindler Tribune Staff Writer In the beginning it all sounded so simple and uncomplicated not such a big thing really "But as soon as we sat down and took a serious look at the project — Holy Toledo! — we thought at that point we all had a sacred ' 'ci ler - ''' N ' ' - - -- :' ' :: '! 4 best-sellin- ' ::: " - ::::: ii(‘ ::'0': 0 t 1') p11 i :i it 11:1 1' ' ' Q :: - '''''' - - ''''' -- ' :14 ::"::: ::: e :l::'!:'":''':':'''"1''It- - '' — - 04(kiiir :::: - r "1 t i ::: and Creative Writing at the University or Montana deg scribes the genesis of The Last Best Place the anthology of Montana which he and Annick Smith historian and filmmaker ("Heartland") edited as the state's centennial anniversary publication last year Kittredge is in Park City this week to participate in the 1990 Writers At Work Conference and Workshops at the Yarrow Hotel and Kimball Art Center through Saturday In a telephone interview from his Missoula home the professor discussed the book which caught everyone concerned by surprise Back in 1984 when the idea of a centennial project involving writers first began to take shape Kittredge recalled "We talked about Montana literature and how It ought to be collected into one volume All we had to do was pick the very best writing about Montana and publish it There wouldn't be anything too hard about that" So Kittredge and Smith invited some friends to join them on an editorial board to choose what should be included in this proposed anthology "We asked Bill Lang editor of the Montana Historical Society Press historian Richard Roeder fiction writer Mary Clearman Blew novelist and poet James Welch and criticteacher Bill Bevis" That was when it began to sink in just how large a job they had taken on "We knew we would use Lewis and '' " s ( iifiiIi04:'''i'4'''''' ': '''''': - '' :"11'i::'!Y- l- ::::::::: 'k':':'1":::''''''' '"41''''- ::: " 0101t ? lkows :0 g"" :1: 'ki'''' " t''' '?"t':- s':'1 e '''':71! t - '' ' - — --- - I 4Ao 000 r Si tt Al ( ''''' qp Ezty 1 ° br' Pt 0 11 i e k M Jall 0 '41511- a LI-4?t- t 1- Nit- I - v' — '' ::':!: William Kittredge teaches at U of Montana '‘ 1 4) 06 (1)F- JUNE cev 1-- ' do I Harvest '"''' ' $4195 :: Shrimp 0 s 5-1- pm LUNCHEON 'i'' ?:: :'::0 0 t pm TROLLEY SQUARE 575-670- ' g - - SUNDANCE: SUMMER THEATRE: I — ( ' ‘ S800 Grass seating 700 -: A lit - i Potow ‘ :' we' 01 MIRE Door FIDDLER Mast -- - a aa r - - 1 evo-nunen4- I 9 4 s 4 ) tiCketottice hours pm 0100e------ giPS at t'601 77 fniqtkin-VinAto- i : 4 MIDSUMMER ' NIGHTS DREAM ' 31 1 0 Laki Exclusive Children's Attire m diONOBir Alot Fri-S- at pm OPEN SUNDAY 5 pm-- it i Rick Bass is termed a "natural storyteller" Coati and Plankeb ' Served with green 11:30-- 5 vstt?A ' - salad and fried rice Mon-Sa- A"''' 'o1 fiend seating SALES et : ?::::Milti7 no children under age 3 0 DINNER Served Family Style Mon-Thur- 1 '": $100 discount Thal BBQ Shrimp I butterfly Shrimp S Walnut Shrimp Spicy Rainbow Shrimp Gallon Shrimp Noodle 0 Muslim Shrimp HunanPeanut Shrimp IP 4:: ':'1:::::!'::'::::!' ilenier titions ter ye Asparagus Shrimp a Malaysian Shrimp - C::t1)!C :s44§ I Choice at: t :: '0iii:: Reseivation rtgotred 8 95 ilzetyVpH 1 - - 0 ' iw: :: Showtim 830 pm 00-4- — Footwear Values to 955 East 900 South 1' ' Reg $1095 - In addition The BrowilmEyed Susan - ' 30 DINNER - Half of our entire inventory!! :01ii-- : FESTIVAL AO : PLUS - ' - — AEI AT A SPECIAL PRICE off outside under the canopy 355-865- p "' " ' ' SHRIMP 1 Affiplip We'll be selling hundreds of sale items 1 A 01 SURMINER v OUR BIGGEST SALE EVER!! ll' lilt' wotiotifrsy: - )11411"A1 Litt ALL ': 0 full-fledg- Starting Monday June 1 lth at 10:00 AM 5 'll'i writer Sunday through Saturday the Montana-basewill be among the returning faculty members at this year's Writers at Work conference at the Yarrow in Park City Besides presenting a free reading Thursday at 8 pm Bass will also review manuscripts for conference participants and deliver a lecture titled "Wild Editors I Have Known" Friday at 11 am "Rick has been an institution at our conference because he was discovered there" said author and Writers at Work Phyllis Barber "He is really supportive of Writers at Work His writing tells the truth of everyday life and he's very creative and quirky with what he does Rick doesn't use artifice for the sake of it" Born in Texas Bass was a petroleum geologist with an undergraduate degree from Utah State University His first visit to the Writers at Work conference in 1986 — and subsequent meeting with Carol Houck Smith vice president and editor at WW Norton (the publishers of Bass' 1989 short story collection The Watch and his upcoming novel Where the Sea Used to Be) — resulted in a career as a fiction writer "Rick is a natural storyteller and his writing displays marvelous energy compassion and excitement" Smith — ALL SEASON SALE at 75 !:::::::i - eilime said in a telephone interview from New York "He's tremendously talented When you're an editor you don't analyze so much as you feel I thought he was distinctive and different I like his exuberance and because of him I am much attracted to writing from the Southwest" Bass' stories have appeared in many literary journals: See E-- 4 Column 3- - - -fol'1!--- 0 By Scott Rivers Tribune Staff Writer For fiction author Rick Bass writing represents a "field of dangers" At a Writers at Work seminar last year he expressed the following philosophy to a group of aspiring wordsmiths: "Telling a story is nothing more than running though sometimes walking across a field — with a good story in your arms or in your heart — and trying not to set any of these mines off It is a sport of negativism negative capa- : -— ir ::: :::::0! 14 d ''$" :::::::!:: (Li bilities" '' - :: 4' co - i'i'1j:i::i'!'!:::::'!'"i -- - 1? 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