Tom Bishop's collection of stories is divided into slices of time and takes place in the northern Rocky Mountains. The earliest story is set during a brutal winter in which the men of a Lakota clan follow a vision of an elk herd to find meat to save their starving family.
The next group of tales take place one hundred years later, in the early twentieth century. A country storekeeper uses defanged rattlesnakes to guard his business; dealings with a bootlegger cost a man his friends, his home, and his job; and deer hunters at the height of the Great Depression go out in search of "Hoover Steaks."
At the end of World War II, an illegal quail hunt costs the host rancher over a thousand dollars when a hunter is killed and his widow demands restitution. In "The Fragile Commandment" an abusive farmer is killed by his stepdaughter with a pitchfork, and "Someone's Dog" is the story of a trout fisherman who finds a dog by his favorite stream. The title story, "The Great Mormon Cricket Fly-Fishing Festival" involves trout fisherman who want to bring in enough money through their festival to pay for a weekend fishing party.
Regardless of the time period, the people, situations, dilemmas, and problems found in these stories replicate those of the twenty-first century.

The Great Mormon Cricket Fly-Fishing Festival and Other Western Stories

Literature & Fiction

Bishop, Tom

Genre Fiction

University of New Mexico Press

A complete guide to finding gold, from panning to electronic prospecting. Includes maps of gold-bearing areas throughout the U.S. and descriptions of equipment.

Gold: The Way to Roadside Riches

Science & Math

Technology

Johnson Pub. Co

In August of 1999, May Mendoza loses her mother Amanda. While settling her affairs, May finds a long-forgotten pledge signed three decades before by some of Amanda's friends, who call themselves the Pinon Nuts, to reunite for the millennial New Year's Eve. She also finds a letter to her mother from Jason, one of the friends who has been missing since he threatened President Nixon in 1970, that seems to imply that May's father was not who she thought and that her mother considered aborting her. In the course of her search for the truth about this alternate reality, the remaining Pinon Nuts, now living complicated lives in New York, Seattle, and the Colorado high country, get back in touch with each other, though they agree that gathering in the same room, especially for the last night of the 20th century, would be nearly impossible. In the course of this intimate book, written by a Colorado musician about a musician, May discovers an extended, caring family she never knew she had and the scattered Pinon Nuts discover that, despite the miles and years that separate them, the tenuous bonds of friendship and love endure.

The Pinon Nuts

Literary

Independently published

New Yorker T. J. Brewster works for a Mob-connected internet start-up that provides him with an expense account that he's overdrawn by tens of thousands of dollars. He also has, or thinks he has, a hard-working wife and an actress girlfriend plus aparalyzing fear of heights in a city of skyscrapers. When his house of cards begins to tumble around his head, he soon discovers that his mom, his wife, his girlfriend, his kids, and his friends have long since caught on to his usual method of borrowing enough to keep him living beyond his--or their--means. Exiled to his daughter's place in Montana, his worst fears are realized in the form of a Mob hit-man headed right for him. He sets out on a low-speed get-away around the American West with about as much plan as a pinball has. Even when the glare of the national spotlight falls upon him for an unlikely moment of heroism, he finds his long-unused spine and some unsuspected personal integrity but still, as usual, he finds no easy way out.

No Easy Way Out

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

What explains the special quality of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Samuel Johnson called the play “wild and fantastical”, noting how “all the parts in their various modes are well written and give the kind of pleasure which the author designed”. The 19th-century critic William Hazlitt wrote, in the play’s own imagery, of his “wandering in a grove by moonlight” through “a sweetness like odours thrown from beds of flowers”. For these critics, the variety of language, character and incident on offer in the Dream was particularly pleasant and happy, and suited what they saw as the overall bent of the play towards happiness. G. K. Chesterton responded to “a spirit that unites mankind” in “the mysticism of happiness” and of the play’s “pure poetry and intoxication of words”, “the amazing artistic and moral beauty” of its design. As Tom Bishop says in this thoughtful guide to the play, one can acknowledge all this, and yet also note how the brightness of that design is full of shadow. Indeed, “shadow” is an important word in the play; the very actors who present it are finally called “shadows”. If the play celebrates happiness, it also knows something sadder, not only that unhappiness is possible but that happiness itself may be maintained only by a fragile resolution, perhaps by mere good fortune. Happiness is a kind of gift, perhaps even a kind of grace. In this play, the gift is not withheld, but the play remains very much aware of how it might be, of what slight turn would produce a very different outcome, one not less true to its picture of human life, if less lucky. 

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Connell Guide To ...)

History & Criticism

Connell Publishing

Tom Bishop a, pendant plus de soixante ans, contribué à définir les échanges littéraires, philosophiques, culturels, artistiques, mais aussi politiques entre Paris et New York. Comme professeur et directeur du Centre de Civilisation et de Culture Françaises à New York University, il a fait de l'institution de Washington Square l'un des grands ponts entre les nouveautés venues de Paris et une scène new-yorkaise alors en transformation complète. Tom Bishop était proche de Beckett, a défendu Robbe-Grillet aux États-Unis, s'est lié d'amitié avec Marguerite Duras et Hélène Cixous, a organisé des rencontres publiques historiques - comme celle entre James Baldwin et Toni Morrison. Il est également chercheur, spécialiste reconnu de l'avant-garde, notamment du Nouveau Roman et du Nouveau Théâtre. En 2012, il a invité Donatien Grau à donner une conférence à NYU. A partir de cette invitation, des conversations, une amitié se sont développées - dont certaines sont rassemblées dans ce livre. Tom Bishop retrace son parcours, sa propre histoire: son départ de Vienne, ses études, ses rencontres, ses choix, sa conception de la littérature et de la vie, son rapport au monde politique et économique; la manière dont il a contribué à définir la profession de « curator » telle qu'elle se pratique aujourd'hui. Dans ces entretiens, il se présente à la fois comme un savant, un organisateur, un acteur majeur de la vie intellectuelle: un individu, avec ses déclarations, sa colère, ses refus, sa loyauté, son appétit insatiable de découverte et de nouveauté, son profond attachement à l'université, lieu de liberté et de création.

La littérature est un voyage de découverte: Tom Bishop en conversation avec Donatien Grau (French Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Grau, Donatien

Arts & Literature

Diaphanes

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