Monica Devine is the author of Water Mask, a collection of lyrical essays set in the beguiling landscape of Alaska. In these stories, Monica skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates the ice with Beaufort Sea whalers, negotiates the deaths of both her mother and father and explores Native language and culture […]
Category Archives: Book Discussions & Reviews
Luncheon speakers with books. Reviews of books by APC members or local authors.
April 4, 2019–Pam Cravez–The Biggest Damned Hat: Tales From Alaska’s Territorial Lawyers and Judges
Pam Cravez will be telling stories from her book, The Biggest Damned Hat: Tales from Alaska’s Territorial Lawyers and Judges, and talking about the practice of law prior to statehood. Cravez interviewed more than 50 Alaska lawyers for the book, all of whom began practicing law prior to statehood in 1959. Published by UA Press […]
Feb. 7, 2019–Adrienne Lindholm–How Nature and Writing Help Us Make Sense of the World
Adrienne Lindholm is a writer, speaker, and mother who lives in Eagle River, Alaska. She’s the author of several books on backpacking, and her stories and essays have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals. Released in August 2018, her newest book, It Happened Like This, is a coming-of-age memoir that Outside Magazine calls […]
Jan. 3, 2019–Jamey Bradbury–Cornered, Stuck, and Stymied: How Limitations Make Us More Creative
Jamey Bradbury of Anchorage will discuss creativity and her acclaimed book The Wild Inside. In a review of her recent book, John Irving wrote: “The Wild Inside is an unusual love story and a creepy horror novel — think of the Brontë sisters and Stephen King.” Jamey’s fiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Spark […]
Sept. 13, 2018–Keenan Powell–Writing What Matters: how a real life murder mystery inspired me to spend hundreds of hours writing a manuscript with no reason to believe it would ever be published
After illustrating Dungeons and Dragons, I ditched art for law school, and moved to Anchorage the day after graduation. As a young pup, I associated with M. Ashley Dickerson, Phillip Weidner, and Edgar P. Boyko, and then went out my own, providing criminal defense representation including the infamous walrus round-up case and the murder trial […]