Jim Harrison

The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

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Produktbeschreibung

The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison's essays and journalism-some never before published

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780802157218
• ISBN-10: 0802157211
• Artikelnr.: 60944619

Autorenporträt

JIM HARRISON (1937-2016) was the author of thirty-nine other works of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Legends of the Fall, The Road Home, Returning to Earth, and The English Major. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he had work published in twenty-seven languages.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
                                                                                                                            
The Man Who Ate Books (Télérama)   
Playful “memoir” of voraciousness for books, beginning with a (probably
fictional) scene where as a baby the unnamed third-person narrator chewed
on a family Bible
Dogs in the Manger: On Love, Spirit, and Literature
Why I Write (written for France, unpublished in English, possibly not
published at all)
Short early piece, likely unpublished, dated to 1970s
Sitting Around
(Tricycle)                                                                                                        
On Zen and meditation
Dogs in the Manger (unpublished)
Literary reputation, very funny section on the anxieties of “regional”
writers. Originally written for the NYTBR, never published
My Leader (In Search of Small Gods)
A memorable meeting with a goat in a Mexican cemetery, originally published
in In Search of Small Gods (as a prose poem)
Nesting in Air (Northern Lights, anthology)
First Person Female (New York Times Magazine)
Essay for the New York Times Magazine on writing in the voice/head of
female characters
Great Poems Make Good Prayers (Esquire)
(unpublished)
Unpublished interview/fanboy love letter to Peter Matthiessen
The Pleasures of the Damned (New York Times Book Review)
Charles Bukowski review, for the NYTBR
Steinbeck (Steinbeck society anthology)
Short essay on reading Steinbeck, Jim’s dad, and his own youthful
hitchhiker travels in California
Lauren Hutton’s ABCs (Playboy)
Love letter to Lauren Hutton
Introduction to Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda (New Directions edition
of Residence on Earth)
Why I Write, Or Not (Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction ed Will
Blythe)
Essay for Will Blythe anthology on writing, motivation, craft
(written for Yves Jolviet in France, never published in English)
Dream as a Metaphor of Survival (Psychoanalytic Review)
An examination of dreams and compendium of some memorable ones, for the
Psychoanalytic Review
(unpublished)
A whimsical meditation on the mysteries of sex and attraction, written
after finding a pair of panties on a walk
Wisdom (written for France, unpublished as far as we know)
Dog Years: On Hunting
Dog Years (Field & Stream)
A life through the dogs he owned and hunted with, for Field & Stream
A New Map of the Sacred Territory (Esquire Sportsman)
On hunting and seeing one’s familiar territory anew
(for Esquire, never published?)
Hunting wild turkey in the Mississippi Delta
The Misadventure Journals (Field & Stream)
Funny, thoughtful accounts of some major scrapes Jim got into in the great
outdoors
Hunting with a Friend: On Good Friends and Foul Weather (For a Handful of
Feathers intro, first serial to Sports Afield)
Essay about his long friendship with Guy de la Valdène, originally
published as introduction to For a Handful of Feathers
Marching to a Different Drummer (Sports Illustrated)
Hunting grouse, who “drum” (a sustained burst of wing beating without
flying, done as a display by the males)
(unpublished)
Spring Coda (Esquire Sportsman)
On the coming of spring and a meditation on hunting in general
Michigan, Montana, and Other Sacred Places
A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska (New York Times)
Written for the New York Times, an homage to one of his favorite places,
immortalized in Dalva and The Road Home
Not Quite Leaving Michigan (These United States)
On his decision to leave Michigan for Montana
Old, Faithful, and Mysterious (Sports Illustrated)
Written for the 100th anniversary of Yellowstone Park, reportage and
personal account of a fishing trip there with Tom McGuane and others
Safely without Portfolio in Key West (Outside)
Classic piece on Key West and the excesses and transcendence it inspires
simultaneously
Pie in the Sky (Esquire Sportsman)
The Beginner’s Mind (Heart of the Land, anthology benefiting )
 
Getting to know Montana as a relatively new transplant
Life on the Border (Men’s Journal)
Written for Men’s Journal, a moving essay observing the folly of our border
policy, inspired by the death of a young Mexican woman
The Beginner: and Other Journalism
(unpublished)
Covering a local tennis championship
A Delicate Creature (unpublished)
Reportage on sharks, including an interview with one of the founders of the
American shark-tagging research project
Real Big Brown Truck (Automobile)
Car journalism mingled with Harrisonian concerns about place
Floating: On Fishing, and on the Water
On the Water (Sports Afloat, Time Life Books anthology)
Starting Over (Men’s Journal)
The Mad Marlin of Punta Carnero (True Magazine)
Fishing a Watershed (unpublished)
The Beauty of the Jump (Men’s Journal)
A River Never Sleeps (Esquire)
Floating (Sports Illustrated)
Early Fishing (In Search of Small Gods)