Tue, Nov 24
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Gretel Ehrlich, 40th Anniversary of The Solace of Open Spaces
Forty years later, Gretel Ehrlich's "The Solace of Open Spaces" reflections on solitude, resilience, nature, and the transformative power of wide-open places remain as resonant as ever. Gretel will be in conversation with authorThomas McGuane
Date, Time & Location
Nov 24, 2026, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
40th Anniversary of The Solace of Open Spaces($17.00, paperback) online from CWB or call the store to order
A transcendent, lyrical meditation on life in the American West
“Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard
Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life.
Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home:…