Brian Bolster
Writing
Known For

Located ten miles off the coast of mainland New England, the Oceanic Hotel is the grand, yet far-from-modern home to the thousands of guests who brave the choppy seas to visit during the warmer spring and summer months. Off-season, the hotel and the 43-acre Star Island on which it sits is home to one woman - its winter caretaker who braves the colder, darker months of inclement weather by embracing the solitude and finding inspiration, and life, in what would otherwise be considered the 'bones' of winter.
Winter's Watch

Phone messages from the cat-loving landlord living directly above you. Ah, New York.
One Year Lease

To date, Andrew has had over 749 sexual partners (almost all of which are men). The Trick List is a documentation of a gay man's journey to memorialize and document every sexual encounter he has ever had.
The Tricks List
An intimate look inside the solitary, day-to-day working life of Leif Haugen, a fire lookout spending a season scanning the landscape for untamed wildfires on top of a mountain in northwestern Montana.
The Lookout
For some visitors to Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, the temptation to smuggle out pieces of petrified wood as cherished keepsakes is irresistible.
The Conscience Files
With grace and purpose, Trey Sebrell runs one of only a few funeral homes in Mississippi for those dying from HIV/AIDS-related conditions.