Most photos of Jim you see now have him as a battered old monument: And Tom McGuane looks like a member of the Yale Club, or an old timer rancher, which as a character says in his last book of stories, “is I guess what I’m getting to be.” It may be hard for the …
Author: Steve Bodio
More Tim–and Johnny UK, and Kazakhs, and the Urbigkits
Tim says to John Hill, on “Huntress”: “Johnny UK, my late partner Alan Sullivan, who attended the death, always choked up at that last line.” I agree, but the one that really gets me is the end of “Perro del Amo”: Vaya con Dios, love/ you were the dog of God.” Here is the Magdalaenian …
Jim Harrison RIP
Jim died today, at 78. “We loved the earth but could not stay.” (Dalva) He was also responsible, more than any other individual, for getting Querencia the book published. More tomorrow, and more from Tim Murphy, including one for Cat, and a reply for Johnny UK, who is– not sure if Tim realizes- another Lab …
A Mongolian Progression….
Most books by Roy Chapman Andrews are interesting, but inexpensive. In his day he was a popular writer, and even early titles like Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera (!) and Camps and Trails in China are not too hard to find. Not so The New Conquest of Central Asia. As it is the record …
Random Doggage
The German dancing girls– dancing with a three legged Anklebiter!
Tim Murphy
In a just world, North Dakota’s Tim Murphy would be not just the Poet Laureate of his beautiful Siberian state, our truest North; he would be the Poet Laureate of the USA. Good (but lesser) honored real poets, like Dana Gioia, know and say this,.. But like any cradle Catholic, even one lapsed or “relapsed”, …
Petroglyphs– and an eagle– in Chalfant Valley
And some comparable rock art from other places. It wasn’t all disasters on our trip.Jackson took us to the most remarkable petroglyph site I have seen since Tamgaly, north of Almaty in Kazakhstan, and quite different in subjects and execution. This sampling should give you an idea.. Jackson gives it scale. Many of …
In need of correction…
From a recent Guardian, as reported in the PLF blog. These children can’t be serious– I have see better reporting by high school students in rural New Mexico… A review of David Astor: A Life in Print, a biography of the former editor of the Observer, contained a number of errors (20 February, page 7, …
George
Tomorrow my favorite brother-in-law George goes under the knife for his cancer. He has responded very well to the chemo and radiation; one of his tumors has disappeared, and the other has shrunk. He’s done so well that they made the operation earlier rather than later, and they give him very good prospects for total …
Found Book
Once or twice, like any person who buys and occasionally sells books, I have found a book on my shelves that I did not know I had. But only once have I found a really valuable one that I had no recollection of buying, and still don’t. It happened about two “book culls” past, when …