Denali Alaska - Paperback

by Tyler Dempsey (Author)

Tyler Dempsey's exquisitely brief book of essays is about many things: nature and the outdoors, family and heritage, physics and energy, maps and geography, language and consciousness, possibility and limitation, meaning-making and endurance. Its tiny miracle is that, somehow, he weaves it all into harmony with casual ease. Ultimately, Denali, Alaska is a personal book about life and death: a delightfully human account of becoming, and of leaving it all behind.

- Michael Wheaton, author of Home Movies and founder of AutofocusPart travelogue, part quest to understand the self, art making, and meaning, Tyler Dempsey's Denali, Alaska delivers the robust pleasures of camping out in someone else's capacious mind. When it comes to essays, what else could anyone ask for? - Andrew Bertaina, author of The Body Is A Temporary Gathering PlaceDenali, Alaska is an intimate, ecstatic exploration of running and returning, a catalog of selves birthed and abandoned across state lines, and Tyler Dempsey is a writer whose voice I'd gladly follow anywhere. -Erin Slaughter, author of The Dead Dad Diaries and A Manual for How to Love UsReading Denali, Alaska felt like that crazy night where you're out partying-you don't have to be drinking, though that so often feels like when these nights happen-and you meet this guy with the craziest stories, amplified by being one of the best storytellers you've met, and you know even as it is happening that it will become one of your favorite nights of the year. You spend the night listening, wishing this guy were your best friend, while also feeling like, even if only for the night, he is. I'm so excited for you all to read this book and get this experience that I've already been sharing and retelling.- Aaron Burch, author of A Kind of In-Between and Tacoma