Air Mail - Irvine, Amy; Houston, Pam
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Paired together for Orion magazine's "Together Apart" series of letters from isolation, Pam Houston and Amy Irvine wrote to each other from opposite sides of the Continental Divide as they each sheltered in place in Colorado's high country. The two, who have yet to meet in person, kept writing-their letters forged a friendship and became Air Mail 1. Released as the world reels from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book offers solidarity and stories, comfort and outrage, and an invitation to process the personal and political implications of a major natural disaster 2. Written by two…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Paired together for Orion magazine's "Together Apart" series of letters from isolation, Pam Houston and Amy Irvine wrote to each other from opposite sides of the Continental Divide as they each sheltered in place in Colorado's high country. The two, who have yet to meet in person, kept writing-their letters forged a friendship and became Air Mail 1. Released as the world reels from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book offers solidarity and stories, comfort and outrage, and an invitation to process the personal and political implications of a major natural disaster 2. Written by two widely known authors whose work has received the Colorado Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, a WILLA Award, and more 3. Regional appeal in the Southwest 4. Endorsements forthcoming from Carolyn Forche, Camille Dungy, Tommy Orange, Joy Harjo, Cheryl Strayed, and Leslie Jamison
Autorenporträt
PAM HOUSTON is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me. She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is Professor of English at UC Davis, and cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at nine thousand feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. AMY IRVINE is a sixth-generation Utahn and longtime public lands activist. She is the author of Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, a response to Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Colorado Book Award. Irvine teaches in the MFA program of Southern New Hampshire University. She lives and writes in southwest Colorado, just spitting distance from her Utah homeland.