Selected Works

Essay
"An Intimate Geography"
Intimate encounters with landscape. Appears in the Summer 2010 Portland magazine.
"Madre de Dios"
Portland (Winter 2008).
Selected to appear in Best American Essays 2009.
"A Scary Abundance of Water"
Memoir of Lopez's childhood in California's San Fernando Valley. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, 2002. (LA Weekly, January 11-17, 2002)
Fiction
Resistance
Nine interrelated stories. H.L. Davis Award for Short Fiction 2005 (Knopf 2004, Vintage 2005)
Light Action in the Caribbean
Thirteen stories, including "Stolen Horses," "The Letters of Heaven," and "The Mappist." (Knopf 2000, Vintage 2001)
Giving Birth to Thunder
Retold tales of Coyote as trickster and sage, from the traditions of Native America. (Andrews and McMeel 1978, Avon 1981)
Nonfiction
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney
With an Introduction by Barry Lopez (Trinity University Press 2006)
Of Wolves and Men
25th Anniversary Edition with a new Afterword by BL. Photographs and marginalia throughout. (Scribner 2004)
Interviews by BL
"The Leadership Imperative: An Interview with Oren Lyons by Barry Lopez"
BL talks with Oren Lyons, Orion (January/February 2007), Manoa (August 2008), and Resurgence (September/October 2008).
Interviews of BL
Interviews of BL
Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2005), Northwest Review (Spring 2006), Georgia Review (Spring 2006), and in No Bottom: In Conversation with Barry Lopez (2008)
Fiction/Nonfiction
Vintage Lopez
This collection includes five essays and an excerpt from Arctic Dreams in addition to six short stories. (Vintage 2004)

Appearances

Photo by Robin Holland
The final episode of the Bill Moyers Journal featured a conversation between Bill Moyers and Barry Lopez.

If you missed this extended show on your local public television station, you can still watch it on-line at PBS.org.

Reading/​Speaking/​Signing

If you would like Barry to sign a book for you, please contact J. Michaels Books in Eugene, Oregon with your request. The e-mail address is jmbooks@​mindspring.com, their phone number is (541) 342-2002, and they're located at 160 East Broadway, 97401.
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2010

September 29 (Wednesday)
Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa
    Evening reading
    8 p.m. Faulconer Gallery

October 7 (Thursday)
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, California
    Lecture, Q&A
    3 p.m. Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus

October 8 (Friday)
Wordslingers 2010
Grass Valley, California
    Reading, talk
    Time and place to be announced

November 5 (Friday)
Nature of Words Conference
Bend, Oregon
    Reading, book signing
    Time and place to be announced

November 17 (Wednesday)
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
    Lecture
    5:00 p.m. (tentative), Solarium, Indiana Memorial Union

November 18 (Thursday)
Spalding University
Louisville, Kentucky
    Evening talk, Q&A, book signing
    Time and place to be announced

December 8 (Wednesday)
Literary Arts
Portland, Oregon
    Writers in the Schools benefit, Honorary Host
    World Trade Center Auditorium, 6 p.m.


2011

January 3 - January 6 (Monday-Thursday)
Vermont College of Fine Arts residency
Montpelier, Vermont

February 8 (Tuesday)
Marin Academy
San Rafael, California
    Reading and commentary
    Time and place to be announced

April 12 (Tuesday)
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
    Talk and Q&A
    Time and place to be announced

April 14 (Thursday)
Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, North Carolina
    Reading and commentary
    7:30 p.m. Location to be announced


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