Michael Bourne

Author Michael Bourne has been a contributor to the New York Times , The Economist , Tin House , and Literary Hub , among other publications and had his stories published widely in literary magazines. His debut novel Blithedale Canyon received rave reviews in Publishers Weekly , Zyzzyva , and Rain Taxi , which called it, "A clever blend of literary fiction with elements of crime and noir ... [whose] cinematic quality comes from characters that demand a performance." For this novel, Bourne...See more

Author Michael Bourne has been a contributor to the New York Times , The Economist , Tin House , and Literary Hub , among other publications and had his stories published widely in literary magazines. His debut novel Blithedale Canyon received rave reviews in Publishers Weekly , Zyzzyva , and Rain Taxi , which called it, "A clever blend of literary fiction with elements of crime and noir ... [whose] cinematic quality comes from characters that demand a performance." For this novel, Bourne draws on his experience as a reporter at the Aspen Daily News , the pages of which were filled with a witch's brew of charismatic wanderers, frontiersmen and women, and charlatans who populate mountain ski towns. He lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his wife and son. See less