Whitefish Review releases new issue

Whitefish Review will release the “Change” issue on June 4 with a celebration at Casey’s in downtown Whitefish.

The evening will open at 7 p.m. with live music and a slideshow of the changing glaciers of Glacier National Park. The event is sponsored by the Whitefish Community Foundation and Glacier Bank. A $10 entry donation is requested.

Readings will begin at 8 p.m., beginning with a discussion by research ecologist Dr. Daniel Fagre on the Glacier Recession Repeat Photographs that show before-and-after images of the receding glaciers. Fagre works for the USGS as director of the “Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems Project.” Author and scientist Cristina Eisenberg will read from new work, with live music to follow by three-piece jazz group Barrel Stove Combo.

Eisenberg, lead editor of the Review’s special “Change” issue, is the Chief Scientist at Earthwatch Institute and a Smithsonian Research Associate. Her most recent book, The Carnivore Way: Coexisting with and Conserving North America’s Predators, was published in 2014 by Island Press. She is currently at work on a climate change book.

In addition to fiction, essays, poetry, art, and photography by more than 40 contributors, the issue contains a new interview with author Jim Harrison, one of the last interviews he gave before his death. Harrison was one of contemporary literature’s most versatile and prolific writers, publishing 39 books across many genres and drawing comparisons to Hemingway and Faulkner.

The issue also contains a special tribute to Harrison by Thomas McGuane, Tom Brokaw, William Kittredge, Teddy Macker, Annick Smith, Chris Dombrowski, Rick Bass, Doug Peacock, Tom Crawford, and David James Duncan.

Copies of Whitefish Review are available in bookstores and for order online at www.whitefishreview.org. Cost is $12, with back issues and subscriptions also available.