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Profiles, meditations, essays, and explorations...For more than forty years, Toby Thompson has been considering what it means to live and work in the American West. And now, with "Riding the Rough String," a lifetime's worth of accomplishment is roped together under one cover. His wide-ranging curiosity considers not only our most luminous literary figures (Gary Snyder to Gretel Ehrlich, Thomas McGuane to Hunter Thompson) but the region's history and culture as well. Saloons and art, pickups and "A River Runs Through It," Thompson shows us the West through a new lens: unique, clear-eyed,...

Global corporations, and the senior executives within them, have been subject to great criticism in recent times, not only because corporations hold extreme concentrations of wealth, but also because they continue to sanction staggering pay inequalities between the haves and the have-nots. At the same time, university-based business schools are conducting programmes of executive education seemingly customised to sanction these same inequalities. Heidegger and Executive Education is a piece of critical philosophy that has been written from within the business school in order to...

"That boy . . . this fellow, Toby . . . has got some lessons to learn." --Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone, November 29, 1969

"Toby Thompson was there first." --Greil Marcus

"A first-rate novelistic account of Thompson's own psyche as he uncovers the Dylan few people know . . . A new look at young Dylan done with kindness, enthusiasm and superb language." --William Kennedy, Look Magazine

"Essential reading. Thompson, unprecedentedly, managed to interview not only Echo Helstrom, almost certainly the 'Girl of the North Country, ' but Dylan's mother and brother, his uncle,...