tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83260655953139570372024-03-05T12:55:11.479-05:00charles finna blog of his writing news and upcoming eventscharles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-21285860577510763332013-02-12T15:07:00.000-05:002013-02-12T15:15:14.436-05:00My Reflections West Wolf Essay
Lisa and David at "Reflections West" read a short piece I wrote about
meeting a wolf, and pair that with my selection from Aldo Leopold's
famous passage about watching a wolf die and the "fierce green fire"
leave from its eyes, from A Sand County Almanac. Click on the link below to listen:
http://www.reflectionswest.org/episodes/ep69_finn.php
charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-77239934683440074612013-01-17T15:30:00.000-05:002013-01-17T15:30:19.908-05:00More Kind Words for WDSMore kind words for WDS from the Register-Guard. Thank you Brian.
Charles Finn’s “Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters” reads as if watching high-res video footage projected in the imagination and narrated by a world-class poet.
Finn’s details are more real than
truth, adding elements of human understanding to descriptions of the
natural world that remarkably convey the imprintscharles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-28707101841509849842012-11-27T13:02:00.002-05:002012-11-27T13:02:29.350-05:00Here's a review I missed from Foreword Review:
https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/wild-delicate-seconds/
Wild Delicate Seconds
29 Wildlife Encounters
Fall 2012 — ForeWord Review
For those who have lived in a landscape that is shared with wild animals, Wild Delicate Seconds
will conjure the transcendent moments that occur between wildlife and
humans. In a collection of “micro-essayscharles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-15437120933060828262012-11-27T12:09:00.003-05:002012-11-27T12:09:52.336-05:00WDS is being used in classrooms and I just stumbled upon this from Six Traits Gurus, a website: <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-7381132566525199952012-07-26T18:22:00.000-04:002012-07-26T18:23:23.759-04:00Radio Interview MTPRThis link takes you to a radio interview I did a few months ago for Montana Public Radio. Thanks Cherie Newman and The Write Question for having me.
http://www.mtpr.net/program_info/2012-07-26-541charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-57299298339414817142012-07-26T18:12:00.001-04:002012-07-26T18:12:51.471-04:00Review in The Oregonian
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WILD DELICATE SECONDS Charles Finn Oregon State University Press, $16.95 paperback, 112 pages Over
the past 15 years, Charles Finn has lived in many places across thecharles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-27493157805429871582012-07-26T18:10:00.003-04:002012-07-26T18:10:50.074-04:00Short Review from Library Pirates
Library Pirates
"Plundering the stacks for rare gold"
Friday, July 6, 2012
Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters, Black Bears to Bumble Bees by Charles Finn
Each essay is brief, so I was tempted to gobble up another and another,
but I think they'd be better savored one or two at a time. Fans of Aldo
Leopold will swoon - these are similar in tone, andcharles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-76346462286590414282012-06-02T20:57:00.005-04:002012-06-02T20:57:50.411-04:00WDS an L.A. Times Summer Read pickThis morning in the L.A. Times under Books, Summer Reads, Lifestyle you can find this:"In a lyrical collection of micro-essays, the author chronicles his encounters with a variety of creatures among them, mountain goats, red-tailed hawks and cougars while living in rural and semi-rural locations. (June)"
If you haven't got a copy yet order from your local independent bookstore or directly from charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-23976323211585562752012-05-23T14:23:00.001-04:002012-05-23T14:23:28.128-04:00
Northwest Book Lovers asked me to write a guest blog. Here it is.
Notes from a Writing Life, an Essay by Charles Finn
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Filed under:NW Voices
photo by Lynn Donaldson
In the Beginning:
I sell my first piece of writing when I am in the second grade. It
is a screenplay for the TV series Star Trek. Proofcharles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-78270377201577965392012-05-08T18:34:00.001-04:002012-05-08T18:34:02.883-04:00A great review of WDS in the Missoula Independent just out.
http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2012/05/08/tonight-get-wild-with-charles-finn
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Tonight: Get wild with Charles Finn
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by Erika Fredrickson on
Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-50500275548201262702012-04-25T14:31:00.000-04:002012-04-25T14:31:03.507-04:00WDS Now Available at These Independent BooksellersWDS now available at these independent booksellers:
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charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-86621342817783884902012-02-25T12:10:00.001-05:002012-03-05T10:22:31.416-05:00New HCN Essay, West to EastThis just out in the most recent High Country News. Enjoy.
http://www.hcn.org/wotr/west-to-east-and-a-world-away
West to East, and a world awayEssay - February 17, 2012 by Charles Finn
A few months ago, after 20 years, I moved from the West to the East, reluctantly, carting a truckload of artifacts and memories, literal stones and actual stories, each one a product of the charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-49855079553287759742012-02-21T15:31:00.001-05:002012-02-21T15:34:14.730-05:00Review of West of 98 in HCNHere's a review I wrote, just out in High Country News, of the fine anthology West of 98. It will also be reviewed (this time by Kim Stafford) in the upcoming issue of High Desert Journal. Russell Rowland, one of the editors of this collection will also have a piece of fiction in the same issue, due out in April.
Bucking the stereotypes: A review of West of 98Review - From the February 20, charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-1279251629056186592012-02-19T09:15:00.000-05:002012-02-19T09:15:33.150-05:00More Praise for WDSThanks to Gretel, Bill and Annick for their kind, kind words. It's an honor to know them and after so many years of reading them, to know they've read some of my work, and enjoyed it.
<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONEcharles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-88025181204094512542012-02-08T18:09:00.000-05:002012-02-08T18:09:27.487-05:00WDS at AmazonYou can now pre-order WDS from Amazon. Just go to:http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Delicate-Seconds-Wildlife-Encounters/dp/0870716557/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328718467&sr=1-1charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-22254769967446852132012-01-16T09:32:00.002-05:002012-01-16T09:35:15.852-05:00Blurb by Robert (Bob) Michael PyleLast summer, I had the good fortune of meeting and having dinner with someone I'd read and admired for years, the author, Robert (Bob) Micheal Pyle. I've never met a gentler, kinder soul, and I'm afraid I took advantage of his kindness by asking him to blurb WDS, thinking (hoping) it might be something he'd enjoy. I wasn't expecting such a glowing endorsement and I am truly honored. Thank you Bobcharles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-11074206511723526942012-01-16T09:22:00.000-05:002012-01-16T09:22:49.943-05:00OSU Press Spring Catalog is OutThe OSU Press spring catalog is out and on-line, here's a link to the whole thing. WDS is in with some good campany, you can find it on page five.
http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/Spring2012Catalog.pdfcharles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-35711982589000001472011-12-27T12:46:00.000-05:002011-12-27T12:46:31.720-05:00Seven Bar JokesPulled this from McSweeney's.
Seven Bar Jokes
Involving Grammar
and Punctuation.BY Eric K. Auld- - - - 1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
3. A question mark walks into a bar?
4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar.
5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-80831760706210302812011-12-02T14:39:00.001-05:002011-12-02T14:43:22.744-05:00HDJ Readings, Music, Muchies and more at A6 December 18th. Come join us!charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-6522494829725343892011-11-28T08:43:00.003-05:002012-02-19T09:19:26.238-05:00Blurbs for WDSThe following are a few things I've shamelessly solicited from writer friends and contacts made through HDJ.
These brief meditations are as beautiful for what they donʼt say as for what they do. Charles Finn does not pad, overreach, or over-emote. His precision accounts of wildlife encounters summon awe, wonder, and magnificence when those feelings are authentically present, but charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-25198369679509253302011-11-16T13:37:00.002-05:002011-11-19T10:05:39.450-05:00Book Cover
This will be the cover for WDS. Wood engraving by Claire Emery in Missoula.
charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-71262200628928990352011-11-12T12:44:00.002-05:002011-11-12T12:51:25.718-05:00Writers On The Range and The Source articles linksA recent essay about going to see a captive wolf was just posted by Writers on the Range.
http://www.hcn.org/wotr/wolf-on-a-picnic-table
All 12 of my essays they've published over the last 10? years can be found by putting my name in their search engine.
Additionally, all the columns I wrote for The Source in Bend can be found at:
http://www.tsweekly.com/index.php?searchword=charles+finn&charles finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241788629390866994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326065595313957037.post-14895178060085502242011-11-12T11:20:00.004-05:002011-11-12T12:36:12.598-05:00Possible Book JacketThis is a possible cover for the Wild Delicate Seconds. Claire Emery, a good friend from Missoula did the engraving. If OSU Press goes with it she'll paint it. There's some problems, especially with the "black bears to bumble bees" at the top. It makes it a little confusing about what the title really is. I've made some suggestions, but I like Claire's image a lot. Any comments?
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