Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States. Our guest today is Rick Newby from Helena, Montana.

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Newby is the executive director of Drumlummon Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering research, writing, and publishing on the culture of Montana and the broader American West. He is also editor-in-chief of Drumlummon Views, an online journal devoted to Montana arts and culture.

As an independent scholar and cultural journalist, Newby has written extensively about the culture of the American West and has edited several works of Western Americana. He is also editor of The New Montana Story: An Anthology, and the Montana Arts Council and is a member of the statewide advisory committee to the Montana Center for the Book.

Drumlummon Institute Web site.

Read an article about The New Montana Story on BBNET.

Newby's book, The Suburb of Long Suffering: Poems & Prose on Amazon.com.

Books written or edited by Rick Newby, listed by Barnes and Noble.

Recently published books by regional writers include, Come with me to Babylon, by Paul M. Levitt from Boulder, Colorado

And, new from Stanford University Press, Accounting for Mother Nature: Changing Demands for Her Bounty, edited by Terry L. Anderson, Laura E. Huggins, and Thomas Michael Power from Bozeman, Montana.

For more information about new books, contact your favorite bookseller or library.

And here's a brief statement fom Rick Newby about "Drummlumon Views the Online Journal of Montana Arts & Culture":
“We hope the journal will afford its readers, both inside and outside Montana, a more nuanced understanding of our place in the world.”

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Barbara Theroux, Prageeta Sharma, Renée McGrath, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by The Greater Montana Foundation—encouraging communication on issues, trends, and values of importance to Montanans. And by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans.

This program included music by Brian Kopper, Michael Blessing and Springhill.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.