The Limberlost Review (2024 Edition)

New Limberlost Review 2024 features 400 pages of interviews, poetry, stories, essays, re-readings, and artwork

Limberlost Press has released the 2024 edition of The Limberlost Review: A Literary Journal of the Mountain West, edited by Rick and Rosemary Ardinger. The 400-page literary annual features interviews, poetry, fiction, essays, artwork, and “re-readings” of favorite books by some of the best in the West and beyond. This special black & white edition is profusely illustrated with photographs, wood and linoleum block prints, drawings, and other mixed-media artwork.

Highlights of the 2024 edition include:

(1)  An interview by Eugene, Oregon, novelist Dan Armstrong with writer, editor, and Ken Kesey compadre Ken Babbs, whose latest book, Cronies: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters, and the Grateful Dead (Tsunami Press), is “a burlesque” of an adventurous life with a message for our time.

(2)  Stories by Iowa Prize-winner Gary Gildner, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award-winner Mary Clearman Blew; novelist and National Magazine Award finalist Maureen McCoy, novelist and O. Henry Prize-winner Don Zancanella, Fifth Mesa All-Star writer Gino Sky, and more.

(3)  Poetry by National Book Award finalist Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award-winner Sherman Alexie, Vermont Poetry Slam Champion Geof Hewitt, former Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford, and 20 other poets from California to New York.

(4)  Essays/memoirs about going to jail, a late-night with poet Richard Hugo, meeting novelist James Welch for the first time, remembering Montana novelist Rick DeMarinis, fishing Idaho’s Henry’s Fork, a killing gone wrong, and a reflection on a past career of travel writing.

(5)  Re-readings of favorite books by Jim Harrison, Wilfred Thesiger, Hugh Kenner, Edward Abbey, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Bowles, E. L. Doctorow, Dylan Thomas, and Forrester Blake;

(6)  Artwork by 13 amazing artists who make the entire edition so readable:

(7) And a “Last Word” by Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award-winner Clay Morgan.