“It ain’t just trucks. (It’s) also chainsaws and typewriters, canoes and climbing rope, a distant dad and an undying dream, love and sex and marriage and children, failure and perseverance and mortality,” writes Mark Sundeen, author of The Man Who Quit Money and Delusions and Grandeur, about Fred Haefele’s latest title The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks, which he will speak about and read from at the Great Falls Public Library on Thursday, June 5 from 6 to 7 pm in the Cordingley Room.
Cassiopeia Books will be present to sell Fred’s books as well. Fred was born in Detroit in 1944. He grew up in Flint Michigan and Jacksonville, Florida. The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks (Bison Books,) is a memoir about the complex role pickups have played in Fred’s life and in American culture at large.
Fred also is author of the award-winning motorcycle memoir, Rebuilding the Indian (Riverhead, 1998). and the collection, Extremophilia (Bangtail, 2012), and his magazine work has appeared in Outside, Wired, High Country News, and The New York Times. He’s received literary fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center, the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University. For the past forty years, he’s made his living as an ISA certified arborist and a creative writing teacher. He lives in Missoula with his wife, the novelist Caroline Patterson.
For more information, contact Jake Sorich at jsorich@greatfallslibrary.org or 406-453-0349 ex. 220.
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