“Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we … More
Author: Jonathan P. Thompson
Journalist, editor and writer focusing on the western United States and its landscapes, communities, and cultures. Author of "River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster" (Torrey House Press 2018): https://www.amazon.com/River-Lost-Souls-Politics-Disaster/dp/1937226832 and the upcoming novel "Behind the Slickrock Curtain."
San Juan Mountain water year 2020 starts dry, but is on the upswing
The 2020 water year (which started Oct. 1, 2019) began like a desiccated whimper in the San Juan Mountains of … More
Let them eat Blake’s: An excerpt from Behind the Slickrock Curtain
A couple hours later, the ragged silhouette of Tsé Bit’a’í rose up ahead of Brautigan, obscured by the brown-yellow gauze … More
Gone Missing: An excerpt from the forthcoming novel, “Behind the Slickrock Curtain”
June, present day. Durango, Colorado. “That motherfucker,” Eliza Santos muttered aloud as she coasted into her conspicuously half-empty driveway on … More
The Big Breakdown of coal, illustrated by one chart
After World War II, the federal government, utilities, and developers embarked on a project to build dams, mines, power plants, … More
On the alleged persecution of billionaires
I recently wrote an information-crammed article/dataviz for High Country News about the slow death of coal in Wyoming. One of … More
Gold King documents and map unearthed
While going down a wormhole the other day, I stumbled across a variety of documents on the Gold King Mine … More
Help launch Lost Souls Press
We need your help! In order to rescue literary lost souls from publishing Purgatory, Jonathan P. Thompson is launching Lost … More
OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE: The Sacred and the Revolution (by Ian M. Thompson, 1975)
Editor’s Note: While going through a bunch of my father’s old writing, I came across a copy of the Deep … More
About that “drilling surge”…
The U.S. Department of Interior recently sent out a flurry of press releases announcing a major upswing in energy development … More
