A chat with a novelist / Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane -- A good day for talking: an interview with the author of Wolf and Farmer / Ira Elliott and Marty Sommerness -- Author's 'hot, hopeless' life mixes with success / Karin Winegar -- An interview with Jim Harrison / Kay Bonetti -- The art of fiction: Jim Harrison / Jim fergus -- Publishers Weekly interviews: Jim Harrison / Wendy Smith -- Siren song: will success lure poet/novelist Jim Harrison out of his midwestern lair? / Robert Cross -- An interview with Jim Harrison / Thierry Jousse and Vincent Ostria -- An interview with Jim Harrison / Eleanor Wachtel -- Jim Harrison: 'what I'm thinking about for two hours' / Casey Walker -- Creating habitat for the soul: an interview with Jim Harrison / Robert Demott and Patrick Smith -- Interview with Jim Harrison / Carrie Preston and Anthony Michel -- Jim Harrison: an interview with Joseph Bednarik / Joseph Bednarik -- Birnbaum v. Jim Harrison / Robert Birnbaum -- Repair work: an interview with Jim Harrison / Angela Elam -- Poet and fiction writer Jim Harrison / Lindsay Ahl -- Poet of the peninsulas / Christopher Walton -- Force of nature / Chris Dombrowski -- About Jim / Jerry Dennis -- No maps are available: final scenes with Jim Harrison / Peter Nowogrodzki.
Summary:
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.