The October pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is ‘American Wolf’

We’re excited to announce that “American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West” by Nate Blakeslee is the October pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”

“American Wolf” by Nate Blakeslee. Credit: Penguin Random House

“American Wolf” tells the tale of O-Six, a Yellowstone alpha female who was known as the “most famous wolf in the world“. As author and environmental activist Rick Bass writes in The New York Times Book Review, it also tells the story of the people who love and hate the wolves (which were reintroduced to the Rockies in recent decades), and the complex politics of the West surrounding them.

In the coming days, we’ll post discussion questions for the book, an annotated excerpt and writing advice from Blakeslee. And at the end of the month, he will answer your questions on air.

Just joining? Become a member of the book club by joining our Facebook group, or by signing up for our newsletter. You can find all of our book club content here, or look back at our conversations about previous selections for the book club below:

• Robert Kaplan’s mix of road trip and political analysis “Earning the Rockies“
• Lesley Nneka Arimah’s short story collection “What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky“
• Min Jin Lee’s historical family saga “Pachinko“
• Andrew Sean Greer’s comic novel “Less“
• Tara Westover’s memoir “Educated‘
• Dan Egan’s environmental portrait “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes“
• Mohsin Hamid’s magical novel “Exit West”
• David Grann’s true crime tale “Killers of the Flower Moon”
• Jesmyn Ward’s lyrical “Sing, Unburied, Sing”

Thanks for reading along!