A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers, but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.THE FRUIT OF STONEMark Spragg. Riverhead, $23.95 ...

Wyoming is a serious place. It's home to Devils Tower, the Grand Tetons and Dick Cheney -- you can't get more serious than that. And according to Mark Spragg's latest novel, Wyoming is a place where ...

Fire plays a supporting role in Mark Spragg’s quiet, haunting new novel about the contemporary West, and not just because it features prominently in the book’s title, “Bone Fire.” Reuniting readers ...

They share the same state for both their homes and subject of their work, and have been touring together to share their perspectives on writing about the American West... They share the same state for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mark Spragg’s “Bone Fire” is part murder mystery, part dysfunctional family saga set in a bucolic Wyoming town. The mystery isn’t the reason to revisit some ...

Cody author Mark Spragg will be in Casper on Saturday to conclude the county's "Everybody Reads Mark Spragg," event. Spragg has written three books, "Fruit of the Stone," "Where Rivers Change ...

It is Mark Spragg's prose that makes his novel, An Unfinished Life, so very good. Reading Spragg's uncomplicated writing is like tasting butter on warm toast. You gobble it up because it tastes so ...

Most "Western writers" excel when they describe landscapes. They dust mountains with snow, anoint rivers with churning rapids and transform brunette coiffures to hair as black as a raven's wings.

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (Penguin, $14). Here is a novel of sheer honesty in its depiction of a struggling man thrown up against the political and social canvas of his culture. Honest, too, in ...