-
Dec 14, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Maxim Loskutoff
Watching video of Mr. Mangione's detention, and listening to the words he shouted to the media, I felt a profound sadness. I saw a young man with a promising start in life lost in naïve convictions, and poisoned by his newly formed and corrupt ideology. Violent men have always gained followers, but Mr. Kaczynski's continued influence is mostly intellectual.
-
Jun 15, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Maxim Loskutoff
The idea of living deep in nature has been alluring for many in the modern age. Back-to-land movements may be based on Transcendentalist romanticism, anticapitalist ideologies, religious worldviews and everything in between. Maxim Loskutoff’s fiction has previously explored the spaces where society meets natural wilds, and his new novel, OLD KING, is in the same vein.
-
Jun 12, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Maxim Loskutoff
The undying allure of the West and that attraction's lethal impact on the wilderness is a pervasive theme for writer Maxim Loskutoff. There is no part of settling it that doesn't also involve plunder, he asserts, from the ranchers whose livelihood goes back generations to the miners and loggers who despoil the landscape to tourists who leave their detritus behind.
-
Jun 9, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Maxim Loskutoff
On June 10 of last year, Ted Kaczynski, the homegrown terrorist known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his cell in Butner, N.C. Mr. Kaczynski, who had spent 25 years in federal prison for murdering three people and injuring 23 others with mail bombs, had reportedly died by suicide. The news jarred me. I was writing a novel about Mr. Kaczynski.
-
Jun 5, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Maxim Loskutoff
The undying allure of the West and that attraction's lethal impact on the wilderness is a pervasive theme for writer Maxim Loskutoff. There is no part of settling it that doesn't also involve plunder, he asserts, from the ranchers whose livelihood goes back generations to the miners and loggers who despoil the landscape to tourists who leave their detritus behind.
-
Jun 1, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Maxim Loskutoff |Elin Hilderbrand |Cara Hunter |Evan Porter
The book is in stores on Tuesday, June 4th. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3tLfn7wIn the spring of America’s bicentennial, a man named Duane Oshun runs out of gas in Lincoln, Montana, a former mining boomtown. In this outlaw community, Duane joins a logging crew, falls for a waitress, and attempts to befriend his neighbor, a loner named Ted Kaczynski.
-
May 31, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Maxim Loskutoff |Alexis Burling
"Old King" by Maxim Loskutoff. Photo: W.W. NortonIn 1978, a crude bomb built by an unknown assailant the FBI nicknamed the Unabomber exploded at Northwestern University in Chicago, injuring a security guard. Over the next 17 years, the person responsible for the bombing eluded capture, all while mailing or hand-delivering a succession of increasingly high-tech bombs that killed three Americans and injured about two dozen, nearly brought down an airliner, and rattled the nation.
-
May 27, 2024 | 
hcn.org | Maxim Loskutoff
Note: This story is an excerpt from Old King, a new novel releasing June 4 from W.W. Norton. Salt Lake City, December 1981Pat Garret lived alone in a large gabled Victorian house that he’d paid for with his inheritance. Every morning before leaving for work, he fed his beta fish, typed a command into the Colossal Cave game on his Commodore VIC-20 computer, and waited for a response.
-
Apr 17, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Maxim Loskutoff |Mateo García Elizondo |Siegfried Kracauer
Margo Laurie. Calleia, $2.99 e-book (174p) ASIN B0BJRRFQQ4Laurie’s compassionate debut revisits the 1927 execution of Italian immigrant and suspected anarchist Ferdinando “Fred” Nicola Sacco. The narrative opens with his wife, Rosa, recounting the history of their relationship in a letter to her seven-year-old daughter, Ines, written shortly after his death. Laurie then flashes back to 1911, when Rosa first meets Fred at a dance in Milford, Mass.
-
Apr 11, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Maxim Loskutoff |Mateo García Elizondo |Siegfried Kracauer
Alex Espinoza. Simon & Schuster, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3278-7Espinoza (Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime) returns to fiction with the arresting story of an elderly wrestler’s last days. Ernesto Vega is visited while in hospice care by his son, Freddy; his gay grandson, Julian; the ghost of his wife, Elena; and a manifestation of his lucha libre persona, El Rey Coyote.
