Jim Harrison

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Brown Dog lives!

[snag66]

could this treasure please just live forever! I try so hard to get some friends to try his books but they just don't get it. reading jim is just such an experience. thanks for the post!!!

[MrJourard]

Harrison is great. Soulful, massively intelligent, erudite, he can write about Nature, sex, food and Eastern philosophy in one paragraph and it all makes sense. A warm, brilliant writer.

[loganachilles1982]

The only LITERARY fiction writer still alive. I Say fuck a book just b/c it's on the New York Sellers List- FUCK IT ! To hell with John Grisham, Nora Roberts, Tom Clancy, Daniele Steel, Clive Cussler , Dean Koontz etc. Those writers are COMMERCIAL- NOT LITERARY WRITERS !!! If you don't understand the pysche of Tristan then you'll never now the difference between literary and commercial writing. Mainly, the literary books being wrote today are nonfiction- history, art, philosophy etc.

[IFStravinsky]

Dalva was one of the worst books I've ever read ...

[kamperal]

Jimmy turned me on to cilantro in a small Yooper village in the late 70's and I have listened to many words leave his mouth over the years.

[MrAntanitas]

Jim...Sos un maestro!! Estoy leyendo la trilogía Leyendas de Otoño....y después de la película Leyendas de Pasión..sos el descubrimiento más precioso que he tenido en los últimos tiempos...

[Xekeo]

True North... What an author, What an experience for me, as a young men, I grew up with his shadow behind me, full of strenght, of philosophy from Natural Writing, of poetry. Since i've discovered Jim, I love the american litterature even if I'm a conditionned young french with all those famous writers who made France a great nation in the history of litterature.

JIm is great. Merci from Paris.

[namelessneed]

Truely, a living legend. Amazing to see him talk instead or leading us so eloquently, left to right in black and white.

His novels and poetry will live well and for as long as we still read.

[simonuser35]

My favourite author so it's a pleasure to see this interview , quite rare.....

Thanks Mr Harrison.

[myjacobs]

I'm so happy to see this! Jim is THE best!! My son recommended Woman Lit by Fireflys years ago. He said you knew it was Michigan just by the feel of the prose!

He is an American writer in the best of ways! Awesome to see him on here. I do have friends who used to drink with him up on Leelanau.

[housemountain]

Jim is the man..."Wolf: A False Memoir" is great. "Off to the Side" and "Just Before Dark," too.

[maggienoel1]

Jim's writing takes me to a world I long to live in. . He is a master at bringing his characters to life, as well as the landscape.

[YouDude60]

Jim was a regular food writer for Esquire

om the early 90's... and he was a gripping writer in that vein! Then he left suddenly to complete a screenplay based on a novella he'd written... much later found out it was "Legends of the Fall", still one of the best true movies made.

[cherylbeee]

think Legends was written earlier..i read it in Esq sometime in the 80's...became a massive fan and read everything i could find...was at Elaine's one nite w/ a gang of people & who should come ambling in to join our party but Jim, i almost choked...he was flattered that a young, attractive woman knew who he was and we became buds & exchanged letters for years...even got drunk w/ him one nite @ the Lone Star...not my usual MO just adore his writing even tho i can't stand hemmingway...go figure

[4120Wade]

Try some of his early short stories like Hills Like White Elephants or Indian Camp. You'll be pleasantly surprised. In later years Hem became a parody of himself.

[chunkhow]

What I love about Jim Harrison is his ability to create a sense of place. You feel like you are right in the U.P. Add to this his quirky characters and love of food and you have a potent combination.

[3toad]

off to the side is one of the best memoirs i've ever read and i recommend it to any fan of jim harrison.

[glimmerman108]

Agreed! I am a big fan!!

[odowdvillle]

jim harrison takes you into another world, another dimension of the world. I'm nearing the end of his latest ...the english major and I rue the ending. It's like leaving an old friends house, after a great time. Not sure when or if you'll ever see them again. Here's toa great soul. I hold the glass up high.

[btltez]

the greatest living writer and poet. period.

see clip from my film through lakota eyes/jim harrison

[iowaidaho66]

i agree

[CheckMate77777]

Legends of the Fall is one of the best things I have ever read