Mark Sundeen

Join me at Taos Writers Conference

Mark — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:20:03 +0000

I’ll be teaching a workshop on Writing the Travel Memoir July 15-20

Order “The Man Who Quit Money” Now

Mark — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:09:05 +0000

From these stores:
Back of Beyond, Moab
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
Maria’s Bookshop, Durango
Kings English, Salt Lake City
Powells, Portland
IndieBound
iTunes
Barnes & Noble
Amazon

Watch BBC Mini-Doc on The Man Who Quit Money

Mark — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:24:17 +0000

Here. David Eckenrode’s gorgeous three minute film captures the essence of the book about Daniel Suelo.

Quit Money Day April 18

Mark — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:57:08 +0000

April 17 is Tax Day, when we look back on a year of hours worked, salaries earned, and dollars spent. Never do we feel more entwined in the money system and its tentacle institutions of banks and government. Let’s imagine greater independence from that system, and for one entire day, on April 18, neither spend, borrow, nor lend a single cent. Once you join this event, invite all your friends!

Sundeen and Suelo on RadioWest

Mark — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:40:35 +0000

Suelo and I spent an hour in the studio with Doug Fabrezio at KUER Salt Lake City, talking about The Man Who Quit Money. I’ve done a bunch of radio interviews in the past week, but if there’s one that … Continue reading →

Read an excerpt from The Man Who Quit Money

Mark — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:38:54 +0000

Here. There is also a Reading Group Guide with discussion questions.

Mark — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:11:19 +0000

Mark Sundeen is the author of The Man Who Quit Money, to be published by Riverhead/Penguin in 2012. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, the Believer, and elsewhere. His previous books are Car Camping (HarperCollins, 2000), The Making of Toro (Simon & Schuster, 2003), and North By Northwestern (St. Martin’s, 2010, co-written with Sig Hansen), which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He has taught fiction and nonfiction at the MFA creative writing programs at the University of New Mexico and Western Connecticut State University, as well as the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. He lives in Montana and Utah.

Photo by Anna Hrnjak

New York Times: Walking the Guatemalan Highlands

Mark — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:37:34 +0000

WE walked into the village around dusk, but with the fog pouring down the dirt streets, it could have been anytime. It was cold, and I could hardly see across the concrete plaza. The Catholic church had been cleaved by an earthquake, the gap between its two halves now spanned with sheets of plywood, but that didn’t stop people from praying in the dank cavern on a floor littered with boughs of long green pine needles.

Our accommodations were a municipal building, a cinder block structure around a courtyard with a fountain that didn’t work and an ash heap where skinny mutts gnawed leftovers. We were to sleep on the tile floor of a room with no furniture and a nonfunctioning light bulb hanging from a wire. I recognized the place from Hollywood thrillers: this was where the narco-cartel tortured its enemies.
Read the story here.

You can also befriend Travis LaFrance

Mark — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:52:03 +0000

Here

The Making of Toro is on Facebook

Mark — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:39:34 +0000