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Michael Branch, Writer

Creative nonfiction and humor on the environment and life in the American West

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Media for Mike includes video, audio, interviews, and images.

Video

“Bandit Queen,” with Hannah Branch. Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. November 12, 2020

C-SPAN BOOK TV. Interview. June 1-2, 2019.

Book Trailer for How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert (Shambhala / Roost Books – distributed by Penguin Random House), 2018

Book trailer for Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert (Roost Books, 2017)

Book trailer for Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness (Roost Books, 2016)

TV promo for Literary Death Match (July, 2017)

Literary Death Match Promo Outtake: Mike on Cats

Snow College Convocation (September 7, 2017):

Audio

Interview and reading on A Book & Its Author (October 1, 2020)

 

Reading of “Planting the Dog” on The Bucket of Blah Blah

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Interview on Book Cougars Podcast. (September 17, 2019)

Interview on The Bucket of Blah Blah (February 11, 2019)

Interview on Ecotopia Radio (KZFR 90.1, Chico, California) (July 31, 2018)

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Author reading of “How to Cuss in Western” (from How to Cuss in Western), with some hilarious trick sound editing by Dondo Darue

http://michaelbranchwriter.com/mb3/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Cuss-In-Western.mp3

 

Interview on Hollywood & West Napa (KSVY 91.3, Sonoma, CA) (July 10, 2018)

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Interview on Edge Effects (April 3, 2018)

Interview on Ecotopia Radio (KZFR 90.1 Chico, CA) (June 27, 2017)

Interview on The Creative Edge (KUNR 88.7 Reno, NV) (October 21, 2016)

Author lecture: “Laughing Matters: Humor in an Age of Resistance and Resilience” (ASLE Conference plenary; June 20, 2017)

Author reading of “Lawn Guilt” (from Rants from the Hill) Terrain.org (June 20, 2017)

Author reading of “Freebirds” Orion Magazine (2012)

Author reading of “The Adventures of Peavine and Charlie” Orion Magazine (2011)

Author reading of “Pleistocene Rewilding”High Country News (September, 2012)

http://michaelbranchwriter.com/mb3/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2012-09-03-Rewilding.mp3

 

Author reading of “I Brake for Rants” High Country News (July, 2012)

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Author reading of “Sorry Utah”High Country News (June, 2012)

http://michaelbranchwriter.com/mb3/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2012-06-04SorryUtahProduced.mp3

 

Print Interviews

Planet Forward (March 8, 2018)

Nevada Today (October 30, 2017)

The Hopper (June, 2017) 

Orion Magazine (May 8, 2017)

Outside Magazine (November 22, 2016)

Foreword (September 15, 2016)

Whole Terrain: Reflective Environmental Practice (August 8, 2016)

Find book cover images and more headshots at Mike’s Press Kit, here.

Images

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Readings in Support of Raising Wild, Rants from the Hill, and How to Cuss in Western

  • Keynote at Sigma Tau Delta National Conference (online) (Denver, CO) on March 26, 2021
  • College of William and Mary Alumni Weekend (San Francisco, CA) on September 3, 2021
  • Cliff Notes Writing Conference (Boulder, UT) on September 30, 2021
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