Selected Works

Essay
"A Dark Light in the West"
The Georgia Review (Fall 2010)
"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
"The Trail"
Orion (Jan/Feb 2010)
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, Sleeping with His Daughter
Retold tales of Coyote as trickster and sage, from the traditions of Native America. (Andrews and McMeel 1978, Avon 1981)
Short story
"Hidian"
BL's short story "Hidian" appears in TriQuarterly's Issue #133.
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

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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To avoid disappointment, please check local listings to confirm times and locations.

2012


March 22 & 23 (Thursday & Friday)
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana
    Evening reading, reception
    Time and location to be announced

April 13 (Friday)
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Cortez, CO
    Reading, book signing
    Time to be announced

April 20 & 21 (Friday & Saturday)
Chautaqua Poets & Writers
Ashland, Oregon
    Evening reading
    Time and location to be announced

April 24-26 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Conference on the Sowell Collection
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

May 20 - June 1
Sozopol Fiction Seminar
Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria

June 8-12
Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference
Homer, Alaska
    Keynote address, reading with Q&A, workshop
    Times and locations to be announced

November 7-9
Western Literature Association Annual Conference
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
    Keynote address
    Time and location to be announced

Selection of Past Talks and Interviews, Available On-line

  • Currently featured on the Sacred Land Film Project's website is a video of BL talking about storytelling. Toby McLeod of SLFP interviewed BL earlier this year for a series entitled Losing Sacred Ground.

  • In October 2010, BL spoke on behalf of Oregon Congressional Representative Peter DeFazio. You can view his talk, in three parts, on-line.

  • Photo by Robin Holland
  • The final episode of the Bill Moyers Journal, aired in April 2010, 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.


  • On October 29, 2008, BL addressed the recipients of the Whiting Foundation awards to emerging writers at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. His talk is available on the blog of the National Book Critics Circle.

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