Writing on the Edge. An Alaska book reading and conversation.

Writing on the Edge

Alaska authors Lily Tuzroyluke (Sivulliq), Ian Harman (Black Lives in Alaska) and David James (editor, Writing on the Edge-An anthology of contemporary Alaskan stories)

July 9 at 6 pm

(David A. James has been a freelance writer in Alaska for over two decades. His work regularly appears in the Anchorage Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Alaska Magazine and elsewhere. A longtime book reviewer, he is the editor of “Writing on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Alaska Stories.”)

Daily News article on Writing on the Edge:

“The book features contemporary fiction and nonfiction, with plenty of Alaska adventure. But it also includes urban stories like Mary Kudenov’s vignette of apartment life in Mountain View from “Threadbare” or Rob McCue’s tales of driving a taxi in Fairbanks in the middle of the winter in “One Water.”

“’It just sort of puts you in these places where it’s like, this is the everyday Alaska and not just climbing Denali, although that’s in there as well,” James said. “And it’s part of the sense that it can go to just incredible highs and incredible lows, and everything in between.’”

David James article about Lily Tuzroyluke’s book, “Sivulliq.”

David James’ article about “Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest” by Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer