cowboy lit 101

Write a Little, Wrangle a Little


By Dana Green, 5-24-06

Talk about inspiring locations for that summer writing course you've been meaning to take: A Columbia writing professor is hosting a weeklong fiction writing workshop on a cattle ranch in the Tetons this July.

In between selected readings from Proulx and Stegner, aspiring writers can learn to make cowboy coffee, lasso a stray calf, tell a campfire story, and build fence (if the ranchers are smart, they'll have those black-turtlenecked New York intellectuals building a WHOLE lotta fence).

You might have to sell your first-born to pay for it, but isn't it worth it? Although it would be hard to explain why you're saddle sore after a week in fiction writing class.



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