Terry Tierney with Heather Bourbeau – The Bridge on Beer River

A rust belt city in decline retains the solace of romance, which often proves to be an empty promise or even a curse. In Terry Tierney’s latest The Bridge on Beer River, a novel-in-stories set in Reagan-era Binghamton, New York, characters scramble for subsistence while hoping for love and a better life.
In conversation with Heather Bourbeau. Her latest collection Monarch is a poetic memoir of overlooked histories from the US West she was raised in.