Author Rick Bass and photographer Stephen Collector will join Lea Chatham to celebrate the reissue of her father Russell Chatham’s classic book, Dark Waters: Essays, Stories and Articles, at Elk River Books, 122 S. 2nd St., on Tuesday, July 8, at 7 pm. The event is free.
Dark Waters was first published in 1988 by Chatham’s Livingston-based publishing company, Clark City Press. It was lauded by the New York Times as a work of “bold eloquence [that] covers topics such as sex, drugs, eating, friendship and art with a conviction born of irrepressible passion.” Long out-of-print, this collection, which centers on Chatham’s love of fly fishing, is being reissued by Ice Cube Press, featuring a new foreword by Terry McDonell.
For the book launch celebration, Bass and Collector will read favorite passages and discuss their friendships with Chatham, who with his Clark City Press, published Bass’ The Ninemile Wolves and Collector’s Law of the Range: Portraits of Old-Time Brand Inspectors.
Bass is the author of more than 30 books including With Every Great Breath: New & Selected Essays, and the forthcoming Wrecking Ball: Race, Friendship, God and Football. He’s the executive director of the Yaak Valley Forest Council, the recipient of a Montana Governor’s Award in the Arts and has been arrested in that same chamber for protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. His profile of Chatham was published in his book The Traveling Feast.
Collector, born in Virginia in 1951, is a freelance photographer and life-long sportsman. His feature writing has appeared in The Drake, Anglers Journal, American Angler, The Big Sky Journal, Tail Fly Fishing, Quail Forever Journal, Modern Huntsman, and The Pointing Dog Journal. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Chatham was an internationally known painter and fine art lithographer, writer, publisher and avid fisherman who maintained a gallery and studio in Livingston, as well as owning the Livingston Bar & Grille. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, Outside and dozens of other publications. His books include The Angler’s Coast, Silent Seasons, Striped Bass on the Fly, The Missouri Headwaters and One Hundred Paintings. With over 400 solo shows at museums and galleries over the last five decades, his artwork is held in numerous private and public collections.
For those who can’t attend in person, the event will live-stream at YouTube.com/ElkRiverBooks.
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