Whitefish Review Presents Author David James Duncan

Duncan is the author of the classic novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, the nonfiction collection and National Book Award finalist My Story as Told by Water, the best-selling collection of “churchless sermons" God Laughs & Plays, and the new novel Sun House. Legendary editor Michael Pietsch calls "David’s magnum opus” and writer William deBuys calls it “one of the greatest imaginative achievements I’ve encountered in a lifetime of reading.”
 The evening kicks off at 7 p.m. with live music by HOTDäYUM!’ a unique brand of “electric funk rock” that has been lighting up stages with crafty, original tunes, energetic, infectious grooves, and free-spirited, improvised jams for the past three years. The Whitefish seven-piece band is driven by Vincent Rannazissi on drums, Brian Birdwell on bass, Sam Bassett and David Noftsinger on guitars, Eric Gates on keys, Rebecca Nelson on flute and sax, and powerhouse Shyamali Malakar on vocals. The conversation and reading with Duncan will begin at 8 p.m. 
The event will also include the magical “Montana Project” guitar conceived by Rick Bass, made from a 300-year-old spruce. The old-growth tree was felled by a storm at the edge of a logging road on the proposed Black Ram logging project in the Yaak Valley. The musicians who play the fabled instrument seek to raise awareness and support efforts to save old-growth forests, as they are some of the most effective tools for combatting human-caused climate change.