Nonfiction

We are pleased to host authors Pam Houston and Stephanie Land reading from their most recent books. With prose as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Pam Houston's memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country delivers her most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief... to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive." On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. With her devoted…