Novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and all-around guy who should be dead already.“ Jerry Stahl should either get the Pulitzer Prize or be shot down in the street like a dog.” -Anthony Bourdain
This is a newsletter that addresses issues mostly related to Montana. I have published seven books, all of which address in one way an issue that is interesting and vital to me regarding what it means to grow up in the West, and particularly in Montana.
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