A Celebration of Clark City Press and Jamie Harrison’s A River Dream

Elk River Arts & Lectures presents a celebration of A River Dream: The Writing and Art of Russell Chatham’s Clark City Press, edited by Jamie Harrison. Guest presenters and writers will include Rick Bass, Lea Chatham, Gretel Ehrlich, Max Hjortsberg and Allen Morris Jones. Doors will open at 6:30 pm and the event will start at 7 pm. 

In 1987, the painter, author and fly-fisherman Russell Chatham, created a publishing house in Livingston, trading paintings for titles by friends and authors he admired. In A River Dream, Clark City’s former editor and novelist, Jamie Harrison (The River View, The Widow Nash), has collected some of the best of the press’s work, which included Jim Harrison’s poetry, William Hjortsberg and Tom McGuane’s essays, Richard Hugo’s only mystery, James Crumley’s short stories, and Rick Bass’s seminal The Ninemile Wolves, about the return of the wolf to Montana. 

Please join Bass (winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Prize), Gretel Ehrlich (author of the classic The Solace of Open Places), Allen Jones (Poet Laureate of Montana), and the sons and daughters of the Clark City Press’s authors in a celebration of Russell Chatham’s crazy genius. 

This event is part of the Elk River Arts & Lectures (ERAL) longstanding Lecture Series. ERAL invites writers from all over the country to share their work with the community. A nonprofit dedicated to cultivating and celebrating the literary arts in Park County; our lecture series is made possible by the Washington Foundation and community donations. 

For more information, call (406) 529 1682 or visit elkriverarts.org.