Date: January 5th, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Bright Side Bookshop, 18 N. San Francisco St.
Join us for an evening with local author, Jonathan Danielson, celebrating his book, The Lowest Basin. The event will begin at 6:00 PM with a reading, followed by a Q&A and book signing at 7:00 PM.
Books will be available for purchase at the event. We encourage attendees to buy their copies from Bright Side Bookshop to support the author and our local literary community.
This event is free and open to the public! No RSVP required unless otherwise noted.
About The Book: Set across Arizona's high and low deserts, these stories explore the fragile and fading mythos of the American West. A police officer in Quartzsite faces off in a pistol duel with an old high school bully. An elderly widower helps his neighbor drag a dead horse to the Prescott countryside. An undocumented family flees their Valley home in the aftermath of SB 1070. Through moments of tension and tenderness, these stories peel back the stoic façade of the West to reveal the vulnerabilities beneath, showing how the harsh Arizona landscape shapes its people and their choices. There's also some Waylon Jennings.
About The Author: Jonathan Danielson is the author of The Lowest Basin: Arizona Stories (Cowboy Jamboree Press 2025). He is a Writer-at-Large for The Feathertale Review, and his fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, HAD, Juked, Stanchion, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Arizona State University and an MFA from the University of San Francisco. His scholarly work focuses on Creative Writing, the Western, and Arizona literary regionalism.
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