Desert Solitaire
This memoir by Edward Abbey recounts his years as a park ranger working at Arches National Park in Utah. Abbey's keen eye and sharp writing clearly impart the beauty of the desert and the importance of...
View ArticleThe Monkey Wrench Gang
He's often compared to Thoreau, and one of his mottos was taken from Emerson: "resist much, obey little." While Abbey has much in common with the forefathers of environmental conservation, he certainly...
View ArticlePostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Got curmudgeon? Postcards from Ed is the perfect gift for that grumpy old scrooge on your list. Spanning the last 40 years of Abbey's life, this newly released collection is fascinating — giving us a...
View ArticlePowell’s Q&A: Theresa Weir
Describe your latest book. In 1975 I was a naïve hippie. While working at my uncle's bar in Illinois, I met an apple farmer and three months later we were married. I fully expected to live this kind of...
View ArticleAsk a Book Buyer: Apocalyptic Fiction, Cross-Country Reading, and More
At Powell's, our book buyers select all the new books in our vast inventory. If we need a book recommendation, we turn to our team of resident experts. Need a gift idea for a fan of vampire novels?...
View ArticleDesert Solitaire
No author encapsulated and celebrated the American Southwest more engagingly than iconoclast and raconteur Edward Abbey. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness — now nearly a half-century old —...
View ArticleSelfies, Memoir, and the World Beyond the Self
When I was a teenager in Colorado during the late '90s, I liked to climb 14ers — 14,000-foot mountains. I'd often hike with friends, and at the top we'd take a photograph of ourselves standing on the...
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