What We're Reading: Molly
THE TITLE CHARACTER in Kevin Honold’s lyrical Molly (Autumn House Press) is a waitress working out a hardscrabble but vastly imaginative life in a trailer on a mesa in New Mexico in 1968. She dubs her…
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What We're Reading: New Mexico Rocks!
NEW MEXICO ABOUNDS in geologic wonders, from Ship Rock to Carlsbad Caverns, Capulín Volcano to Rockhound State Park, and a zillion dunes, plains, mountains, and gorges in between. Wouldn’t it be nice…
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What We're Reading: Sky Rider
ON JULY 4, 1882, six-foot-tall, 225-pound Park Van Tassel lifted off from Albuquerque’s Old Town in a hot-air balloon that was dangerously inflated at only two-thirds capacity. It was the first…
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What We're Reading: First & Wildest
ALDO LEOPOLD'S MONUMENTAL IDEA became the 1922 birth of the Gila Wilderness, the first such protected place in the nation. In honor of its centennial, Elizabeth Hightower Allen gathered essays from…
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What We're Reading: Virgil Ortiz: reVOlution
VIRGIL ORTIZ'S FIRST CLAY FIGURE, created at age six, was a curvy woman clad in a man’s two-piece suit and bow tie. For his genre-bending work, the potter, provocateur, fashion designer, and futurist…
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What We're Reading: The Unmasking
SET MOSTLY IN an approximation of Silver City’s Bear Mountain Lodge, Lynn C. Miller’s The Unmasking: A Novel (UNM Press) mixes a murder mystery with literary analyses of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude…
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Books We Loved in 2021
Above: Photograph by Clay Banks/Unsplash. The Shadow Crosser J.C. Cervantes (Rick Riordan Presents) The final installment in the Las Cruces–based author’s Zane Obispo trilogy of Mayan myth, which…
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Our Best Books for the Holidays
Land and Culture Cultural Convergence in New Mexico: Interactions in Art, History & Archaeology Edited by Robin Farwell Gavin and Donna Pierce (Museum of New Mexico Press) Compiled in honor of…
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What We're Reading: Abandoned New Mexico
AFTER YEARS OF DELIGHTING READERS with his City of Dust blog, John M. Mulhouse packs his knowledge of small towns and photos of iconic buildings into a book, Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns…
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An Ode to Sandia Mountain
Above: Winter on the Sandia Mountains. Sandía: Seasons of a Mountain Photographs by David Muench, essay by Ruth Rudner (University of New Mexico Press) Sandía Mountain wasn't the first rugged place…
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