BY KAREN BOSSICK
Mike Branch likes to rant and rave.
His books include “Rants from the Hill,” a collection of extremely opinionated essays he nurtured in the shade of a sagebrush. And his next book due out in August is titled “How to Cuss in Western.”
The nonfiction humorist and environmentalist who has authored or edited eight books, will give a reading and a ranting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, at the Environmental Resource Center, 471 Washington Ave., in Ketchum.
There will be libations from Sawtooth Brewery.
Branch’s talk is presented by Ketchum’s Community Library but served up in a different location as the lecture hall is closed for renovations.
Branch is professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada-Reno. He also is co-founder and past president of the association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
His books include the Pulitzer Prize-nominated “John Muir’s Last Journey,” and “Raising Wild,” about life with his wife and daughters in Nevada’s high desert.