Join the Churchill Arts Council for a reading by Nevada-based writer Michael P. Branch.

Michael P. Branch is a writer, humorist, environmentalist, father, and desert rat who lives with his wife and two young daughters in the western Great Basin Desert. His work includes nine published books, one of which is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated John Muir’s Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa. His recent books include: Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness (2016), Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert (2017), “The Best Read Naturalist”: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017), How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert (2018), and On the Trail of the Jackalope (2022).

In his new book, On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer, Branch explores the never-before-told story of the horned rabbit – the myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific breakthrough it inspired – and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West.

This event is supported in part by Nevada Humanities.