Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated

Robert DeMott

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781496819659
• eBook ISBN: 9781496819666
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harrison (1937–2016) from its beginnings in the 1960s to the last interview he gave weeks before his death in March 2016. Harrison labeled himself and lived as a "quadra-schizoid" writer. He worked in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and screenwriting, and he published more than forty books that attracted an international following. These interviews supply a lively narrative of his progress as a major contemporary American author. This collection showcases Harrison's pet peeves, his candor and humility, his sense of humor, and his patience. He does not shy from his authorial obsessions, especially his efforts to hone the novella, for which he is considered a contemporary master, or the frequency with which he defied polite narrative conventions and created memorable, resolute female characters. Each conversation attests to the depth and range of Harrison's considerable intellectual and political preoccupations, his fierce social and ecological conscience, his aesthetic beliefs, and his stylistic orientations in poetry and prose.

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

Abbey, Ed

Abbott, Nancy

Abstract Wild, The

academia and academic training

Adams, Noah

“Adding It Up”

Adler, Renata

Aeschylus

After Ikkyu

Agee, Jonis

alcohol

Alexandria Quartet, The

Alexie, Sherman

Algren, Nelson

Altman, Robert

Anatomy of a Murder

Ancient Minstrel, The

Anderson, Sherwood

animals

Antaeus magazine

Antonioni, Michelangelo

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Aristophanes

Arizona

Atwood, Margaret

Bahle, Joyce Harrington

Baker, J. A.

Ballard, Mike

Banks, Russell

Barbary Shore

Barry Lyndon

Barth, John

Bass, Rick

Batali, Mario

Batchelor, John Calvin

Baxter, Charles

Beast God Forgot to Invent, The

Bednarik, Joseph

“Beige Dolorosa, The”

Bellow, Saul

Belushi, John

Berger, Tom

Bergman, Ingmar

Bergson, Henri

Bible

Big Seven, The

Bird Brains

Bissell, Tom

Blake, William

Blotner, Joseph

Bly, Carol

Blythe, Will

Bohy, Ric

Bonetti, Kay

book tours

Boston, MA

Bourdain, Anthony

Bourgeois Poet, The

Bowden, Chuck

Boy Who Ran to the Woods, The

Braided Creek

Brandt, Anthony

Brautigan, Richard

Breakfast of Champions

Brown, Rosellen

Brown Dog

“Brown Dog”

“Brown Dog Redux”

Buffett, Jimmy

Bukowski, Charles

Burgess, Anthony

Burke, Kenneth

Burns, Ken

Burnt House to Paw-Paw

Bush, George W.

Byrne, Steven

Byron, Lord

Caldwell, Erskine

California

Campbell, Joe

Camus, Albert

Capote, Truman

Caputo, Philip

Carradine, Keith

Carruth, Hayden

Cassill, R. V.

Castro, Fidel

Cela, Camilo José

Celan, Paul

Cervantes, Miguel de

Cezanne, Paul

Chambers, Marilyn

Chandler, Jeff

Chandler, Raymond

Changing the Bully Who Rules the World

Char, Rene

Chase, Alton

Chatham, Russell

Chatwin, Bruce

Chekhov, Anton

Chesterton, G. K.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Ciardi, John

Clinton, Hillary

Clockwork O...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chronology
• A Chat with a Novelist
• A Good Day for Talking: An Interview with the Author of Wolf and Farmer
• Author’s “Hot, Hopeless” Life Mixes with Success
• An Interview with Jim Harrison
• The Art of Fiction: Jim Harrison
• Publishers Weekly Interviews: Jim Harrison
• Siren Song: Will Success Lure Poet/Novelist Jim Harrison out of His Midwestern Lair?
• An Interview with Jim Harrison
• An Interview with Jim Harrison
• Jim Harrison: “What I’m Thinking about for Two Hours”
• Creating Habitat for the Soul: An Interview with Jim Harrison
• Interview with Jim Harrison
• Jim Harrison: An Interview with Joseph Bednarik
• Birnbaum v. Jim Harrison
• Repair Work: An Interview with Jim Harrison
• Poet and Fiction Writer Jim Harrison
• Poet of the Peninsulas
• Force of Nature
• About Jim
• No Maps are Available: Final Scenes with Jim Harrison
• Index