Coffee Talk 2016: Writing About The West

Ah Haa West

The particular landscapes of the Western United States — canyons, rugged peaks, glacier carved basins and empty spaces — have long inspired some of the country’s greatest writers. Renowned authors Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge, When Women Were Birds, The Hour of Land) and David Quammen (The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin) talk about how place imbues their prose.