Loren Salazar
Loren Salazar
Loren Salazar was born in California in 1951. Graduated with Honors in 1973 from Central Washington State University with a degree in Fine Arts and Sciences. Salazar has painted and exhibited extensively in the western states of Washington, California, and Alaska. His work has been exhibited across the country and his published images are found internationally. Currently calling Cost Rica home, Salazar continues to paint image locations from Italy to South America.
Salazar’s photorealistic technique developed into a long series of works based on visual memory. This involved numerous images and places occupying the same picture plane. These images dissolved in and out of one another in long horizontal compositions.
With the encouragement of close friend and mentor Andreas Nottebohm, Salazar set fourth on a 4 year series of works on etched aluminum, a technique pioneered by San Francisco artist Nottebohm. While living near Lake Arenal in Costa Rica, Salazar’s nights were consumed creating a series of paintings based on “The “Northern Lights” or “Aurora Borealis”. This series was painted in layers of transparent acrylic on etched aluminum. From Arenal, Salazar shipped the Northern Light Series to galleries in Alaska, Washington, and California.
Craig Johnson
Location – Wyoming
Craig Johnson/Longmire
Craig Allen Johnson is an American author who writes mystery novels. He is best known for his Sheriff Walt Longmire novel series. The books are set in northern Wyoming, where Longmire is sheriff of the fictional county of Absaroka. Wikipedia
For fans of the Netflix series (Longmire,) if you have watched the six seasons, grab a book. Walt, Vicki, Ruby and the gang live on…
Book Club Reads
Book Club Reads
Culled from the favorites of three East Coast Book Clubs.
Please write to us with your book club favorites – info@roamingthearts.com
Recent Book Club Favorites:
Theo of Golden – Allen Levi
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Fifteen Dogs – Alexis Andre
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
How to Read a Book – Monica Wood
The Safe Keep – Yael Van Der Wouden
The Vesper Wilds – Lauren Groff
Our 2020 Covid List – In case you missed them:
| American Dirt- Jeannine Cummins |
| Apeirogon-Colum McCann |
| Ask Again, Yes –Mary Beth Keane |
| Behold The Dreamers –Imbolo Mbue |
| Bel Canto –Ann Patchett |
| Born A Crime- Trevor Noah |
| Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman |
| Fates and Furfies – Lauren Groff |
| In The Midst of Winter – Isabel Allende |
| Mrs. Hemingway – Naomi Wood |
| Pachinko –Min Jin Lee |
| Tattooist Artist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris |
| The Extraordinary life of Sam Hell- Robert Dugoni |
| The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah |
| The Great Believers –Rebecca Makkai |
| The Inn At Lake Devine –Elinor Lipman |
| The Man with a Load of Mischief –Martha Grimes |
| The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey |
| The Storyteller’s Secret – Sejal Badani |
| This Tender Land-William Kent Krueger |
Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and author who performs and records with the Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics. In 2006 he was named one of the “100 Greatest Living Songwriters” by Paste magazine. Wikipedia
Ritter also penned a novel released in 2012. Check out:
Otto Penzler
Otto Penzler
is the president and CEO of MysteriousPress.com.
He is also the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and is regarded as the world’s foremost authority on crime, mystery and suspense fiction.
Penzler founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, which he later sold to Warner Books (1989). He reacquired the imprint in 2010 and it now publishes original books as an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and both original works and classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com, in partnership with Open Road Integrated Media.
Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, for Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection in 1977 and The Lineup in 2010. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him the prestigious Ellery Queen Award in 1994 and the Raven–the group’s highest non-writing award–in 2003.
Laura Lippman
Location – Maryland
Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working full-time and published seven books about “accidental PI” Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001.
Her work has been awarded the Edgar ®, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe and Barry awards.
She also has been nominated for other prizes in the crime fiction field, including the Hammett and the Macavity. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor’s Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association. Ms. Lippman grew up in Baltimore and attended city schools through ninth grade.
After graduating from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Md., Ms. Lippman attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her other newspaper jobs included the Waco Tribune-Herald and the San Antonio Light.
