A conversation with Mark Sundeen about their book Delusions + Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West (University of New Mexico Press, 2025)

Mark Sundeen is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Montana. In addition articles for The New York Times Magazine, Outside Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, McSweeney's, and other outlets, Sundeen is the author of 5 books.

• Car Camping: The Book of Desert Adventures (Quill HarperCollins, 2000)
• The Making of Toro: Bullfights, Broken Hearts, and One Author's Quest for the Acclaim He Deserves (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
• The Man Who Quit Money (Riverhead Books, 2012)
• The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America (Riverhead Books, 2018)
• Delusions + Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West (University of New Mexico Press, 2025)

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