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Rick Bass


USA flag (b.1958)

Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S., the son of a geologist, and he studied petroleum geology at Utah State University. He grew up in Houston, and started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1987, he moved with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Hughes Bass, to the remote Yaak Valley, where he works to protect his adopted home from roads and logging. Rick serves on the board of both the Yaak Valley Forest Council and Round River Conservation Studies. In 2011 Rick moved from the Yaak area of Montana to Missoula, Montana. He continues to give readings, write, and teach around the country and world. He lives in Montana with his family.
 
 
New and upcoming books
Novels
   The Diezmo (2005)
   Nashville Chrome (2010)
   All the Land to Hold Us (2013)
   Where the Sea Used to Be (2014)
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Collections
   The Watch (1989)
   The Hermit's Story (2002)
   The Lives of Rocks (2006)
   For A Little While (2016)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Blue Horse (2009)
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Rick Bass recommends
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Things We Found When the Water Went Down (2022)
Tegan Nia Swanson
"With the inspiration of passion and heightened attention (which some define as prayer) to her characters and setting, Tegan Swanson has written something entirely original and utterly fearless. Things We Found When the Water Went Down is an unforgettable literary experience that is more akin to being sucked down through a tube into a slightly different reality than it is to 'reading' a book. On this journey, the traveler's heart stills, quickens, dives, ascends, and with each page, becomes wiser. I've never quite read anything like it. This book is a joy and an illumination."
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Vera (2021)
Carol Edgarian
"Sisters, mothers, heroines, charlatans, buffoons, scam artists, prostitutes, and the uncontrollable, passionate brawn of a young nation: in Vera we see, taste, smell the marrow of a country intoxicated on hope—all evidence to the contrary. Amazingly, Edgarian has captured a rolling, earnest, perpetual ruin so complex it could just be called life. She’s conjured another wonderful novel out of dust, history, love."
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Landslide (2021)
Susan Conley
"Landslide by Susan Conley is a supple examination of the sweet, enduring electricity generated by the ever-present pairings of darkness and light, fear and security, love and loss. If it sounds like a novel for our current predicament, current opportunity, that’s because it is. Landslide is wise and vulnerable, while Conley’s sweet, dry humor allows us sips of hope for the wonderful characters herein."

Anthologies containing stories by Rick Bass
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New Stories from the South 2010 (2010)
The Year's Best
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Amy Hempel

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