By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Of the many hazards of being an artistic trailblazer is that your creations turn into tropes while your hand in inventing them gets forgotten. That’s the fate suffered by...
Welcome to the third annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited any and all writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel of...
By Danielle Packard Reader Contributor Amid the sea of books and films that have recently been released on the American opioid crisis, Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe, stands out for a few...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff It was genealogical research that led local author Kathleen Huntley to the story of Flora MacDonald. A first-generation American by way of Scotland on her mother’s side, Huntley could...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The old literary adage, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story,” is often attributed to Mark Twain. It’s hard to confirm that, but it...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Estimates place the Sandpoint Monday Writers’ origins sometime in the 1990’s, and at the hands of founding member Karen Seashore. The group has seen several iterations over the years,...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff More than 1,600 books across 32 states were banned during the 2021-2022 school year alone. In Idaho, 26 titles were banned across three school districts, underscoring a trend spearheaded...
By Rick Price Reader Contributor I chatted with the writer Mike Medberry the other day. I took notes about what he said so I could write up an interview. When I looked for them,...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There was a time when what you thought about guns didn’t somehow indicate your opinions on everything from electric cars to the germ theory of disease. There was also...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Nancy Cerra-Medland is fond of the term, “new adventure.” “Life needs to be full of those,” she said. “You can’t be complacent, or miss out on opportunities. Try something...
