Media/Events
Events
Gonzaga University Visiting Writers Series Spokane WA 2013/2014
Orcas Arts Council Darvill’s Books October 13
Lost Horse Press/Sandpoint ID Library Reading and Discussion June 1
Aunties Books Spokane May 30
Get Lit “The Long and Short of Storytelling” Panel 12-130 Red Lion at the Park
Stevens County Library Novel Celebration March Stevens County WA
Monday, March 4th 6:30 pm Lakeside
Wednesday, March 6th 6:30 pm Hunters
Monday, March 11th 6 pm Loon Lake
Thursday, March 14th 6 pm Colville
Thursday, March 21th 6:30 pm Chewelah
Monday, March 25th 6:30 pm Kettle Falls
South Coast Writers Conference Gold Beach Ore Feb 15/16
Dialogue/Character Workshops
It’s About Time Reading Series Feb 14 Seattle WA
October 13 – Wordstock Festival, Portland
October 11- Reading & Signing at Time Tested Books, Sacramento – 7 pm
October 10 – Litquake/Oddball Film & Video – 7 pm
October 8 – Capitola Books Cafe, Capitola – 7:30 pm
October 5-6 – Montana Festival of the Book, Missoula
Guest Posts/Interviews
WRCT 88.3 FM in Pittsburgh February 6
Interview with Reading and Writing podcast
Interview with Author Magazine
The Write Question: Interview on Montana Public Radio
Guest Post on Omnimystery News
Guest Post on Three Guys and One Book
Suspense Radio – Inside Edition June 16th, 2012 06/16 by …
Praise for Lonesome Animals
Finalist 2013 Spur Award Best Western Novel
House of Crime and Mystery shortlist/Best U.S. crime novel
Slate Best Novels 2012 (Don Kois)
Seattle Times Best Mysteries 2012
Track of the Cat Best Western Novel 2012
Finalist Spotted Owl Mystery Award 2012
Seattle Mystery Bookstore Best of 2012 selection
Nominated for the Indie Next Award
Publishers Group West Selection for May 2012
Featured on preferred Reading Lists at:
“Holbert has a clean, flowing style of writing. You can smell the wildflowers and dust and hear the birds and bees…a terrific debut.”
“In Lonesome Animals, Bruce Holbert completely reinvents the Western Novel, the Crime Novel and the Noir Novel–and turns the dialectic of “Literary Fiction” versus “Genre Fiction” into a very difficult proposition indeed. He also presents the world through one of the most darkly memorable antiheroes in literary history: Russell Strawl, aging ex-lawman and ruthless killer.”
Elliot Bay Books highlighted selection
Killer Nashville’s Book of the Day / Thursday, August 2, 2012 …
Reviews
April 2013 Review LONESOME ANIMALS from Collectors Corner Boyce McClain
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“From the opening sentence of Holbert’s remarkable debut, it is obvious that we are in the hands of a master storyteller.”
“Lonesome Animals is a powerful story and an elegy for a disappearing era…an utterly brilliant debut.”
Sacramento/San Francisco Book Review : Lonesome Animals is an instant classic.
The London Times Book Supplement
“This is not a Western for the faint of heart. Nor is it your standard fare. More literary than genre, it’s gritty, potent, shocking, intense.” –D. L. Keur, The Deepening World of Books
“This is a book that is destined to become an important piece of American Literature.”
The land is rendered in loving, even exquisite detail, so too the crimes. The characters’ minds are infernal, and at its best the prose makes the darkness visible…Holbert has gone all-in: This book is audacious. It reaches the heights and then keeps rising…
Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine
it is a parable beyond any single comparison
…a master storyteller, Holbert highlights the awkward collision of the Native American and White cultures, and the shocking violence that can erupt in an unstable environment at an unstable time. In Holbert’s carefully crafted world where most characters “don’t know a worthwhile man over fifty who hasn’t killed someone”, violence is always the answer; and for a lonesome animal like Russell Strawl, blood is always the final word.
I’ve read some books with some pretty bad dudes in them before – James Crumley, Massimo Carlotto, etc - but the shifty, violent, unpredictable Sheriff Russell Strawl in Bruce Holbert’s Lonesome Animals takes the cake.
I have been singing the praises of Bruce Holbert’s debut novel, Lonesome Animals, since I put it down a few weeks ago. Before, actually. I was telling every reader I came into contact with to check this book out. It’s that good.
This is not a Western for the faint of heart. Nor is it your standard fare. More literary than genre, it’s gritty, potent, shocking, intense. –D. L. Keur, The Deepening World of Books
Lonesome Animals
