LITERATURE

Ralph Thurston writes reflective nonfiction when he's not farming.  His efforts have been published in such diverse publications as The Georgia Review and Growing For Market.

Look for Loving Allis Chalmers:  Reflections From Agraria  To Be Released December 2007!  See the Table of Contents. For an excerpt click here or here.

His 2002 work, No Sage:  Essays From The Margin, was a finalist for the Idaho Book Award. The collection, a series of essays describing a life of trapping, flower farming, and bee-rearing in remote Southeast Idaho, has been described as "Bacon-esque". To read an excerpt, click here, or purchase a copy. You can also get a copy at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble  

          cover copyright 2002 by Jeriann Sabin

•  His recent collection, Leaving the Bucket:  Searching for the Sacred in Addiction, was released in October 2005. The book contains 17 essays on the nature of alcoholism in a rural setting, investigating its form as a search for the promising context of the sacred. To read a portion of the work,  click here 

     click on the cover image to see an enlarged version, or read the introduction

•  Expected to be published sometime in 2007, Loving Allis Chalmers:  Reflections From Agraria, includes essays on rural life. Music, Grief, and Being, his current work-in-progress, explores ties between Schopenhauer's philosophy to Neil Young's music, the differences between collecting music and enjoying it, and the relationship between our evolutionary aural heritage and music. Read a small portion of the work