An auspicious beginning for The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis by
Michael Pritchett (Unbridled Books, $24.95, 9781932961416/1932961410),
a Book Sense and Midwest Connections Pick: at a pub party at
the Leopold Gallery in Kansas City, Mo., Unbridled Books's co-publisher
Greg Michalson (r.) introduces Pritchett.