UPDATE September 2020: In order to rescue literary lost souls from publishing Purgatory, Jonathan P. Thompson is launching Lost Souls … More
Tag: Writing
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
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I am currently taking on editing and writing projects on a freelance basis. Need a writing coach who can help … More
Behind the Slickrock Curtain preview
I’m about to do something that may be a bit unconventional, unorthodox — maybe even uncouth: promoting a novel before … More
Musings on the pro-nuke movement
Preface: In December, High Country News published a story of mine titled, Is nuclear energy the key to saving the … More
Writing novels
Way back when I was a teenager, I spent summers at my dad’s house outside of Cortez, Colorado. I had … More
“This can’t be the United States”: An excerpt from River of Lost Souls
To drive west out of Farmington is to travel through the borderland, where the northeastern edge of the Navajo Nation … More
The nowhereness of air travel
I was sitting in a hard, spine-crumpling seat in an airport somewhere, one of the seven I’d pass through during a … More
Interior Secy. Zinke is Albert Fall and other writings on energy/public lands
In a harried attempt to keep up with the Trump administration’s assault on public lands, I’ve put out a flurry … More
Fiction: Howitzer Love
(Author’s note: I wrote this piece several years ago for the Silverton Mountain Journal. I retooled it for the current … More