Rick Bass didn’t set out to resume his football career at the “somewhat desiccated age of 60.” It just kind of happened. Bass, the journalist and author of books including “Oil Notes,” “The Ninemile ...

“Where you choose to direct your senses, step by step, matters,” says the eminent nature writer. His 30th book, “With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023,” is out in February.

Toward the end of "The Watch," a story from Rick Bass' first collection, a young man named Jesse reclaims his love for cycling. A "serious" wind nudges him from bed. "Moths fell down off the porch ...

When Rick Bass first found himself in the area referred to as Unit 72 by the United States Forest Service, he felt desperate and unanchored. He was walking up what was once an overgrown logging road ...

The trouble with nature writing, a majestic genre, is that its peaks are sometimes purple. Nature cries out for naming, and soon $10 words encrust the page. Nature cries out for understanding, and so ...

I come from a long line of Texas earth-divers: prospectors, trappers and explorers who have spent their lives in the successful pursuit of oil and gas. I am proud of our part in supplying the world ...

Rick Bass was a geologist by trade, a product of growing up in the petroleum country of Texas. But when he set foot in western Montana's remote Yaak Valley in 1987, his whole life changed, from ...