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Les braconniers, roman de Callan Wink : avis
Avis 💡 intégrer cette revue du web sur votre site. 4ème de couv Thad et Hazen, la vingtaine, vivent en autarcie dans une vieille baraque en bois nichée dans les Beartooth Mountains, près du parc de Yellowstone. Abandonnés enfants par leur mère, une femme excentrique et instable, noyés depuis la mort de leur père sous les factures et les arriérés d’impôts, les deux jeunes hommes ne s’en sortent que grâce au braconnage.
La legge di Yellowstone - Callan Wink
Potente. Immaginifico. Denso ma arioso. E’ la prima volta che leggo un romanzo di Callan Wink e penso che ne diverrò una groupie perché questo mi è piaciuto in un modo che non avrei mai immaginato. Non è italiano, non scrive gialli classici … insomma non è il mio genere ma è stato una folgorazione! Due parole sulla trama: siamo in Montana, in quelle lande a noi note, come tipologia quanto meno, dopo Brokeback Mountains. Un posto splendido quanto arduo da vivere.
A Conversation with Thomas McGuane
Art by Derek DeYoung Since publishing his first novel in the late 1960s, Thomas McGuane has gone on to create a large body of work — novels, screenplays, short fiction and essays — beloved by sportsmen and literary critics alike. McGuane is the only individual to be an inductee into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame, the National Cutting Horse Association Hall of Fame and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Review: Brothers take on a dangerous mission in adventure novel ’Beartooth'
On the back cover of “Beartooth,” a blurb from novelist Junot Diaz compares it to “A Simple Plan,” which is both high praise and a very dangerous game to be playing. “A Simple Plan,” which became a terrific Minnesota-set movie in 1998, was written more than three decades ago but the dread-filled suspense novel is still highly thought-of and frequently read — perhaps, in part, because Scott Smith has only published one other book in the intervening 32 years.
New library books
These action and adventure books are newly available from the Allen County Public Library. “When We Were Real” by Daryl Gregory A madcap adventure follows two friends on a cross-country bus tour through the mind-boggling glitches in their simulated world as they grapple with love, family, secrets and the very nature of reality in a simulation.
Locals Only: Trout Fishing Guides Fight Crowds
In the 1991 film Point Break, actor Keanu Reeves, playing undercover FBI agent Johnny Utah, learns how to surf as a way to infiltrate a gang of bank robber/surfers led by the enigmatic Bhodi, played by Patrick Swayze. Early in the movie, Keanu paddles out, drops in on another surfer and promptly gets assaulted by the guy, a local, who cuts Keanu’s leash and sends him packing to the beach. While the leash-cutting part is a bit of Hollywood fantasy — who surfs with a knife?
6 Stunning New Literary Fiction Novels You Won’t Stop Thinking About
in Books to Read if You Like..., eBook, Literary Fiction, News 6 Stunning New Literary Fiction Novels You Won’t Stop Thinking About Some stories stay with you long after you turn the last page—challenging perspectives, stirring emotions, and leaving an unforgettable mark. These six new literary fiction novels do just that. With breathtaking prose, deeply human characters, and thought-provoking themes, they’ll pull you in and refuse to let go.
Callan Wink’s music playlist for his novel Beartooth
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Callan Wink’s novelBeartooth is magnificently dark and resonant.
Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, February 14, 2025
In this week's issue you'll find recommendations for thrilling fiction and searing nonfiction alike. Novelist Callan Wink devises "a meditative and startling literary heist" in Beartooth, the story of two brothers roped into a risky criminal job in the protected lands of Yellowstone.
Brothers take on a dangerous mission in adventure novel 'Beartooth'
On the back cover of "Beartooth," a blurb from novelist Junot Diaz compares it to "A Simple Plan," which is both high praise and a very dangerous game to be playing. "A Simple Plan," which became a terrific Minnesota-set movie in 1998, was written more than three decades ago but the dread-filled suspense novel is still highly thought-of and frequently read - perhaps, in part, because Scott Smith has only published one other book in the intervening 32 years.
Places I Know and Love: A Guest Post by Callan Wink
Places I Know and Love: A Guest Post by Callan Wink Junot Diaz raves about Beartooth, calling it, “One of the best and fiercest heist stories since A Simple Plan . . . Beartooth is unstoppable, the literary treasure you’ve been looking for.” We couldn’t agree more. Read on for an exclusive essay from author Callan Wink (August) on writing Beartooth, creating his characters and reflecting on his love for Montana. Hardcover $28.00 Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
Boek | Beartooth - Callan Wink
A tale of two brothers in desperate straits and one high-stakes poaching trip in Yellowstone from a Dylan Thomas Prize shortlisted author. Uitgeverij Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. Imprint Granta Books Uitgegeven als Hardcover • Paperback Eerste editie 11-02-2025 Laatste editie 07-04-2026 ISBN 9781803510965 • 9781803510989 • 9781954118027 • 9781966302131 Aantal pagina's 256 Taal Engels
Book Review: ‘Beartooth,’ by Callan Wink
As the story develops, the growing conflict between Thad and the Scot, an odd character who has a murderous past, wears a kilt and plays a set of bagpipes he has fashioned himself from bog oak and elk hide, generates most of the novel’s dramatic energy, while the sudden and unexpected arrival of the brothers’ previously absent mother, a hippyish van dweller named Sacajawea (after Lewis and Clark’s guide), provides a more emotionally nuanced domestic subplot.
'Beartooth,' by Callan Wink Original
As the story develops, the growing conflict between Thad and the Scot, an odd character who has a murderous past, wears a kilt and plays a set of bagpipes he has fashioned himself from bog oak and elk hide, generates most of the novel's dramatic energy, while the sudden and unexpected arrival of the brothers' previously absent mother, a hippyish van dweller named Sacajawea (after Lewis and Clark's guide), provides a more emotionally nuanced domestic subplot.
'August' novelist Callan Wink's new adventure is gripping, Montana-set 'Beartooth'
Fiction: Callan Wink’s spare, Montana-set book earns comparison to “A Simple Plan.” February 5, 2025 at 3:00PM Callan Wink (Dan Lahren/Spiegel & Grau) On the back cover of “Beartooth,” a blurb from novelist Junot Diaz compares it to “A Simple Plan,” which is both high praise and a very dangerous game to be playing.
Author Callan Wink on the Anglers Journal Podcast
Callan Wink is a novelist and full-time fly-fishing guide based in Montana. His writing style is highly acclaimed for its vivid descriptions and themes of rural life in the American West. His work is often compared to that of Jim Harrison, who was his friend and fishing companion. Wink's debut collection of short stories, Dog Run Moon (2016), garnered critical acclaim for its lyrical prose and resonant storytelling.
Art of the Skunk
For the past decade, I’ve helped instruct a fly-fishing guide school in southwest Montana. It’s a great gig. We help folks hone their fishing skills, teach them how to row a drift boat, give them advice on client management and do our best to get them hooked up with jobs in the industry.
In ‘Velorio,’ Hurricane Survivors Form a New Society. It’s No Paradise.
Fiction In his debut novel, “Velorio,” about the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino explores how a natural disaster can bring out both the best and worst in human nature.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times Jan. 4, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET VELORIO By Xavier Navarro Aquino “Velorio,” Xavier Navarro Aquino’s debut novel, is set in Puerto Rico in the immediate aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Maria.
Guide Types
Artwork by Brett Affrunti I did my first guide trip in 2003 at age 20 on the Blackfoot River. I was working at a dude ranch outside of Missoula, Montana, a typical Midwestern transplant, as spastic and confused as a 1-year-old golden retriever. I was not a very good fishing guide that summer. Or the summer after that. Or probably even the summer after that.
So which books will have Santa hooked this Christmas?
WHO THEY WAS by Gabriel Krauze (Fourth Estate £14.99) LITERARY FICTION ANTHONY CUMMINS WHO THEY WAS by Gabriel Krauze(Fourth Estate £14.99) I’ve had more conversations about this novel than any other this year. Drawn on the author’s troubling past as a university student running with London gangs, it’s thrillingly visceral and endlessly rich. Longlisted for this year’s Booker, it should have been shortlisted.
Guiding Jim Harrison was to watch a man find joy starring at the far bank
Jim Harrison’s House, Livingston, Montana. By Callan Wink for Men’s Journal Callan (rowing) with his regular client. Callan Wink guide service photo. Most people knew Jim Harrison from his books — over 30 of them about characters who liked messing around in the woods and embracing appetites of all kinds and rolling with the joys and consequences that stem from that heart-gut-loin decision-making apparatus. But over the past several years, Jim and I went fishing, and I’d rather talk about that.
Melanie White - How the West was Written
Home » Current Issue » Melanie White « previous | next » Montana writer Callan Wink’s debut novel, August, revolves around the coming of age and inevitable growing pains of the titular hero, who moves with his divorced mother from Michigan to ‘big sky country’ as a teenager. When a friend gives him an inquisitive puppy and says, ‘She’s trying to figure out what kind of person you are,’ August replies, ‘Oh yeah?
What Wins in the Heartland, Machismo or Intellect?
Fiction Callan Wink, a former Stegner fellow, avoids fancy flourishes in his writing. March 31, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET AUGUST By Callan Wink America has always had an uncomfortable relationship with its intellectuals — there’s no shortage of evidence lately that hostility toward nuance and sensitivity is a winning strategy in this country. Based on his debut novel, “August,” Callan Wink seems both attuned to this unfortunate condition of American life and prey to it, which is too bad.
Fish Pimping
Photos by Brian Grossenbacher It’s late July in Livingston, Montana, and I’ve just picked up my clients. We’re heading out of town, my raft trailer rumbling behind my truck, a plume of dust rising from the gravel. It’s the final day of a four-day run with this group — Texas oil and gas millionaires, a legitimate billionaire or two in the mix, no doubt. The two men assigned to me for the day are clutching their coffees, admiring the scenery.
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“A Refugee Crisis”
In the afternoon, I cross-country ski up a logging road not far out of town. We haven’t had any new snow for a week, and the trail is a hardened icy crust, spackled frequently with brown streaks of runny, frozen dog shit. A local dogsledding operation frequents this trail. Tourists staying at the hot-springs resort down the valley get decked out in mukluks and parkas and tool around under the watchful eye of the head musher.
Writer Thomas McGuane on the Wild West
Since publishing his first novel, in 1968, Thomas McGuane has become one of the most revered writers in American literature, penning such classics as The Bushwhacked Piano and Nobody’s Angel—books often populated by the roughneck drifters, ranchers, and river guides of Big Sky Country. This month, McGuane, now 78, releases his 17th book, Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories. We caught up with the author this January, while he was in Florida to escape the cold.
The Day the Yellowstone River Died - Men's Journal
I’ve always found it hard to trust a town that didn’t have a river flowing through it. Livingston, Montana, where I’ve called home for the past 13 years, seems to be an eminently trustworthy place. This is due in large part to the Yellowstone River. The longest undammed river in the Lower 48, the Yellowstone winds north from the national park named after it and makes a big eastern turn in Livingston before heading toward the prairie and its eventual confluence with the Missouri.
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The Day the Yellowstone River Died
I've always found it hard to trust a town that didn't have a river flowing through it. Livingston, Montana, where I've called home for the past 13 years, seems to be an eminently trustworthy place. This is due in large part to the Yellowstone River. The longest undammed river in the Lower 48, the Yellowstone winds north from the national park named after it and makes a big eastern turn in Livingston before heading toward the prairie and its eventual confluence with the Missouri.
Review: In ‘Dog Run Moon,’ Men So Lonesome, They Could Cry
In Yasmina Reza’s play “God of Carnage” (2006), a woman comments on the diminishment of the modern man. “Men are so wedded to their gadgets,” she says. “It belittles them. It takes away all of their authority.” She adds, “A man ought to give the impression that he’s alone.” The young men in Callan Wink’s excellent first book of stories, “Dog Run Moon,” are alone in a hundred different ways. Not being leashed to their mobile devices is the least of it.
10 Best Books Set in the American West
In his standout first story collection, Dog Run Moon, Callan Wink stakes his bold claim to Big Sky literary territory. Wink, who is also a fly-fishing guide in Montana, picks his 10 favorite books set in the American West. When I think of the literature of the American West one hallmark of the genre, as I see it, is the way characters are forced to deal with a powerful, often hostile, landscape.
In Hindsight - The New Yorker
Lauren followed the drag mark for a mile down the gravel road and then another half mile down her dusty driveway and then parked her truck and cried. The bastard had shot one of her steers—one of six, red Texas longhorns—and dragged it down the road by its neck and deposited it here for her to find, practically on her front step. She’d got her taxes done that day at the free tax-preparation kiosk in the County Market. Lauren hadn’t filed a tax return since Manuel died, two years before.
Exotics | Callan Wink
On the last day of class before summer vacation, his students – all fifteen of them, ranging age eight to sixteen – filed out the door saying their goodbyes. Before leaving, one of his sixth-graders, Molly Hanchet, stopped at his desk. She had red hair and freckles and, in five years, would likely be Park County’s Fourth of July Rodeo queen. After that she would go on to pre-med at Stanford. She had her thumbs hooked in the straps of her backpack and she said, ‘Have a good summer, Mr Colson.
Breatharians
“I like corn.” August spat at his feet, but his mouth was dry, so the spit trailed out on his chin and he wiped at it with the back of his sleeve. “I asked your dad what kind he wanted and he said it didn’t matter.” “He likes the crunchy shells, too. Trust me. Do you make them with beans or without?” Lisa hesitated for a moment and tugged at the brim of her cap. “Which do you prefer?” she said. “I bought some black beans. I usually put some of those in. But I don’t have to.” “I like beans.
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