Appearances

To Find the Music of Your Heart, Find the Rhythms of Your Prose: A Writing Lab with David James Duncan

Hosted by Writing the Wild

Online Event: A Reading & Wisdom Potluck

August 20 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific

Writing the Wild’s directors Krissy Kludt and J. Drew Lanham will host this event, featuring the words and wisdom of Elizabeth Bradfield, Geffrey Davis, David James Duncan, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Jamie Ford, CMarie Fuhrman, John Freeman, Sean Hill, Pam Houston, Caroline Kessler, Chris La Tray, Rick Lindroth, Amy Tan, & Ryo Yamaguchi.

McKenzie River Trust Presents:

UPSTREAM: AN EVENING WITH NOVELIST DAVID JAMES DUNCAN

APRIL 17 @ 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Join author and river advocate David James Duncan and McKenzie River Trust for an inspiring and thoughtful conversation about the relationships between people and the natural world around us.

2023 Calendar

June 23-25, 2023

Old Salt Festival

Helmville, MT

July 9-12, 2023

ASLE Biennial Conference

Portland, OR

August 11, 2023

Montana Public Radio presents:

**David James Duncan’s new novel Sun House, illustrated in music by Jeffrey Foucault**

**With The Write Question’s Lauren Korn and A New Angle’s Justin Angle**

September 22-24, 2023

Harbor Springs Festival of the Book

Harbor Springs, MI

December 7, 2023

Whitefish Review

Whitefish, MT

News

David James Duncan contributes essay to Going To See

Barry Lopez was not only a writer, but also a traveler, visionary, and someone with a deep love for humanity and the natural world. Going to See illuminates how the stories he shared with us were like stones in a pond, sending ripples throughout not just a world of readers, but also a network of writers. Here, 30 of those writers reflect on Lopez’s tremendous influence on their work and their lives. Available May 2, 2024

24 Works of Fiction to Read This Summer

Sun House, by David James Duncan

This novel of ideas, which took Duncan 16 years to complete, follows all manner of people who are staring down crises of faith. These lost souls — from cowboys to urban refugees — make their way to Montana and build new communities for themselves. “I’m really trying to portray something that might give some one hope,” Duncan said of the book in an interview with The Idaho Mountain Express. “When I shatter a heart, I try as best as I can to at least partially mend it as well.”

Little, Brown, Aug. 8

David James Duncan with Maria Amparo Escandon, Peter Heller, and Anne Griffin (not shown) at the 2023 A Novel Idea event in Bend, Oregon.

Watch David James Duncan and Steve Hawley on the GBH Forum Network discuss “Damned in a Hot Chaotic World.”

From David James Duncan’s Foreword for Cracked. Release date: May 2

“Steve Hawley has written, and Patagonia has brilliantly supported, an undamming book powerful beyond anything I thought possible in a time of cynicism, greed, and cave troll politics. Cracked is itself a mass-breaching of the lies, corruption, and betrayals that have fueled an insane parade of dam-building by disembodied bureaucracies and totalitarian governments worldwide. This book from beginning to end is a tour de force. This book affirms Nick Cave’s thesis that a cynic is just an optimist with a crushed heart that can be mended and filled with hope once again. I know this because one such heart, as I read Cracked, was beating in me.”