Swinging Modern Sounds #98: Against Jazz
Nate Wooley, the reason for this piece, is a essential force in the contemporary music.
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Posts Tagged: Jim Harrison
What to Read When You’re Broke Down in Hell
A list of Melissa Stephenson’s down-and-out favorites for when you have a case of the grays.
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Letter to Jim
Many days I couldn’t see the way forward, but I kept going, the way you had. It was you, after all, who taught me how to stay.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Christine Sneed
Floyd Skloot interviews Christine Sneed about her latest story collection, The Virginity of Famous Men.
...moreA Tale of Two Siblings
For the New York Times’s Bookends column, Thomas Mallon and Leslie Jamison muse on the books that best capture the intricate and fraught relationships between siblings: That’s what I felt Faulkner intuited about siblings: that there were all sorts of gaps and harms and distances that might befall them, that they might inflict on each other, […]
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The Rumpus Interview with William Hjorstberg
William Hjorstberg talks about his new book, the heady writing days in Livingstone, Montana, being a “Hollywood whore,” and the finer points of Richard Brautigan.
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Dead Man’s Float by Jim Harrison
Denise K James reviews Jim Harrison’s Dead Man’s Float today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack
Skip Horack talks about his new novel, The Other Joseph, blending research with fiction, and living with the “curse of the fiction writer.”
...moreThe Rodney Dangerfield of Literature
For The Daily Beast, Bill Morris has some theories about why Jim Harrison is an underrated writer.
...moreRising to Literature’s Bait
From Ernest Hemingway to Richard Brautigan and Jim Harrison, fishing and literature has always had a strong, mysterious link. Over at The Millions, Nick Ripatrazone goes deep into this ancient relationship.
...moreWhat Part Are You Now?
Harrison’s style is spare and evocative, more expressive than Hemingway but less misogynistic, more accessible than Thoreau. Honest.
...moreJonathan Pappas: The Last Book I Loved, The English Major
When Jim Harrison’s The English Major was published a few years ago, I was working at the Cedar Tavern in New York. Sarah was the woman I tended bar with on Saturday nights and she’d mentioned that she “worshiped” Harrison. When the book was warmly reviewed, I told her at work that the new Harrison […]
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