Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything.

We're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Today, we've got another edition of the Blister Book Club, and in honor of its 50th anniversary,

Mike Rogie, the owner and editor of the Mountain Gazette and I, are talking about one of Mike's

all-time favorite books, A River Runs Through It by Norman McLean. A River Runs Through It was published in May 1976, and it was

actually the first work of fiction that was ever published by the University of Chicago Press,

which is a little bit of a point of pride for me, given that I did spend five years of my life

in graduate school at the University

of Chicago. Mike and I have a great conversation about this book, and our main hope is that

this conversation encourages you to read a river runs through it for the first time, or read it

again, if it's been a while.

And on a related note, I want to give you a heads up about our Blister Book Club for next month

so you can get a jumpstart on reading our selection.

We are going to be talking about the book, Dragons in Paradise, by George Sibley, and for that one, the plan will be

for me to record a conversation with George himself, who still lives in the Gunnison Valley.

Now, you may recall that in one of my recent Blister podcast conversations with Mike Rogi,

he and I were gushing about the piece that

George wrote for the most recent issue of the Mountain Gazette, and Dragons and Paradise

is a collection of some of George's essays that brilliantly talk about mountain town economics and

learning to live in a small mountain valley and a whole lot more.

So our plan is to publish that conversation on June 22nd.

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