Dee and Sue Baker of the Grizzly Claw Trading Company graciously offer their store as the venue for Open Book Club presentations. Every author who has read in Seeley Lake has appreciated the opportunity and praised the level of audience participation.
The Open Book Club is free and open to anyone interested in writing, reading and writers. It offers an intimate setting in which to meet an author and discuss the challenges of writing and publishing as well as to explore the ideas and inspirations of literary pursuit.
2011 - 2012 Season
Saturday, April 21 - 7:00 PM
Pete Fromm
Author Pete Fromm will be reading from his novels and short Stories. Pete Fromm’s fiction and nonfiction have won the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association’s “Book of The Year” for an impressive four times. His work includes, Indian Creek Chronicles, Dry Rain, As Cool As I Am, Night Swimming and Blood Knot. His movies include Dry Rain and As Cool As I Am.
Saturday, May 5 - 7:00 PM
Mary Clearman Blew
Author Mary Clearman Blew will be reading from her new work, This Is Not The Ivy League. Mary Clearman Blew's education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not The Ivy League is her account of that girl, and then that woman - pressured by husband and parents to be a conventional wife of the 1950's. Her short fiction has been included in th O. Henry Prize and Best American Short Stories anthology Blew is the recipient of two Montana Awards in the Humanities of the H. G. Merriam Award for Distinguished Contribution to Montana Literature.
Saturday, May 26 - 7:00 PM
Sharon Lamar
Author Sharon Lamar will be reading and doing a presentation on her book Mountain Wildflowers For Young Explorers, a fact-filled and beautifully illustrated guide adults can share with the budding botanists in their lives. Mountain Wildflowers For Young Explorers depicts 26 flowers common to Western mountains and valleys, and is packed with extras, a section notes each plant’s tradition significance to Native peoples. This fun and fascinating book is sure to inspire kids and grownups alike to get outside and scour the mountainsides for beautiful buds and blossoms.
Previous Readings
July 14, 2007
Deirdre McNamer - My Russian
Aug. 11, 2007
Aryn Kyle - The God of Animals
(rescheduled - Sept. 29, 2007)
Feb. 2, 2008
Liza Ward - Outside Valentine
May 25, 2008
William Kittredge - The Next Rodeo
Oct. 11, 2008
Steve Lamar - Swan Valley Place Names
Nov. 16, 2008
Annick Smith - The Wide Open
Dec. 6, 2008
O. Alan Weltzien - The Norman Maclean Reader
Feb. 14, 2009
William W. Bevis - Ten Tough Trips
Mar. 28, 2009
Donna Love - Henry the Impatient Heron
April 25, 2009
David Allan Cates - Freeman Walker
May 23, 2009
Judy Blunt - Breaking Clean
June 10, 2009
Seth Kantner - Shopping for Porcupine
Sept. 19, 2009
An Evening of Poetry Readings
Victor Charlo - Put Sey (Good Enough)
Lowell Jaeger - Suddenly, Out of a Long Sleep
Lowell Jaeger, ed. - Poems Across the Big Sky
Oct. 24, 2009
Richard Manning - Rewilding the West
Nov. 21, 2009
Wendy Parciak - Requiem for Locusts
Jan. 9, 2010
Peter Orner - The Second Coming of Maval a Shikongo
Feb. 20, 2010
Smoke Elser - Packin' In on Mules and Horses
Mar. 14, 2010
Janet Kay - Waters of the Dancing Sky
April 10, 2010
Jennifer Lowe-Anker - Forget Me Not
May 1, 2010
Star Jameson - Medicine Rock
May 29, 2010
Victor Charlo - Put Sey (Good Enough)
Roger Dunsmore - You're Just Dirt
June 12, 2010
Phil Condon - Nine, Ten Again
Aug. 28, 2010
Jon Turk - The Raven's Gift
Oct. 2, 2010
Jamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Nov. 28, 2010
Doug Ammons - Whitewater Philosophy
Dec. 11, 2010
William Farr - Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet
Jan. 29, 2011
Stan Cohen - Downhill Montana (film)
Feb. 26, 2011
Growing a Garden City
Mar. 5, 2011
Donna Love - The Totally Out There Guide to Glacier National Park
Mar. 26, 2011
Bent Grass (poetry reading)
Cedar Brant - Like Any Other Dream Will Do
Jenni Fallein - If Beauty Were a Spy
Roger Dunsmore - You're Just Dirt
April 12, 2011
Ruth McLaughlin - Bound Like Grass
April 30, 2011
David Emmons - Beyond the American Pale
June 11, 2011
Bud Moore - Times in the Locsha
Aug. 31, 2011
Elizabeth Rosner - Blue Nude
Oct. 1, 2011
Diane Smith - TheNewRural.Com
Oct. 29, 2011
(anthology) West of 98
Russell Rowland, Annick Smith, Bill Kittredge
Nov. 19, 2011
Donna Love - The Wild Life of Elk
Dec. 3, 2011
Suzanne Vernon - Montana: Voices of the Swan
Jan. 14, 2012
E.B. Eiselein - "Montana's Indian History" (Humanities Montana Lecture)
Feb. 11.2012
Doug Chadwick - The Wolverine Way