Clik here to view.
Brothers and Wild Places
My only brother, Mike Bailey, died this summer, alone and in despair, and by his own hand. In our pain and dismay, all of us who loved him search for meaning and lesson in the devastating loss of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blogs and Manuscripts
Reading is Sexy It’s a new year and I want to get plugged into the THP blog thing again. Over the next few weeks I’ll announce when we will open to unsolicited manuscripts again, what we will be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Erica Olsen
Where do you call home if you are of Korean-Swedish-Norwegian heritage and were born in Hollywood? In spite of her claim to not have a home town, Erica Olsen’s writing indicates to me that she has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Way of Life
The more I learn about the way public lands are being managed in the West the more I realize how the public is in the dark about it. I just finished revising the language on our Submission Guidelines...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Consonance
Spring Valley, Nevada This fall we will publish Jana Richman’s next novel, The Ordinary Truth. The backdrop theme of the novel is based on the real life tension between the urban and rural West as the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You Okay with Nature Writing?
DH Lawrence, Nature Writer? In 1999, at a gathering organized by The Orion Society, Barry Lopez read a poem by D.H. Lawrence. After the reading Lopez paused for effect and then stated, “D.H. Lawrence,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Call for Environmental Nonfiction
At Torrey House we are wrapping up our first publication season with national distribution to the book trade and we continue to learn. We have seven titles out and three ready for the upcoming...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leaning In to Nonfiction
There’s nothing like fiction, but it is hard to sell. They told us it would be but we had to see for ourselves. Our title, The Legend’s Daughter, by David Kranes is out. Kranes’ stories are so good...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Green Shorts
Amazon has their Kindle Singles, Torrey House is aiming to launch our own Green Shorts series. We are calling for submissions of environmentally oriented fiction and narrative nonfiction that is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Four Girls, Two Canoes: A Trip Down Labyrinth Canyon
My experiences with water have not been unusual. I wash dishes. I water the tomato plants on my balcony, when I remember. I enjoy lounging by implausibly blue swimming pools while reading, slathered in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Prisoner of Zion, by Scott Carrier – Review
Prisoner of Zion: Muslims, Mormons and Other Misadventures by Scott Carrier My rating: 5 of 5 stars As we hone our strategy and niche at Torrey House Press (THP), I am thinking a lot about the West,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let Them Paddle, by Alan S. Kesselheim – Review
Let Them Paddle: Coming of Age on the Water by Alan S. Kesselheim My rating: 4 of 5 stars In middle age the notion of doing what you love and then figuring out how to make a living at it gets ever more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Green Shorts, Charles Manson, and Literature and Conservation in the West
This piece originally appeared in The Wildlife News. Ten years ago I read Michael Chrichton’s novel State of Fear. While far from his best work, it was his usual roller coaster of a techno-thriller....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Today’s Transcendentalists
Have you ever been overcome by a sense of awe and wonder? Perhaps outside watching the sun set over a roiling ocean or watching the Milky Way spin overhead on a moonless night? Perhaps you had a sense...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pill in the hamburger
See what I mean by pill? ( photo credit maurieandeve.com) Last October, while Kirsten and I were on the road peddling our Torrey House wares, we were walking down the streets of Taos, straight into the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NGO’s, authors, booksellers, and why we publish
Kirsten at Hite Overlook. See the “lake?” Kirsten and I drove from Torrey to Durango this week to see Scott Graham’s book launch of Mountain Rampage at Maria’s Bookshop. We hoped to catch up with...
View Article
