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	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Jim Harrison
		Jim Harrison's quest to become a writer brings to mind the trials and romantic aspirations of a Harrison protagonist.
		Harrison resided in stints on the eastern seaboard and in Michigan, earning bachelor's and master's degrees from Michigan State in 1960 and 1965.
		Harrison, his wife, and their baby daughter (they would later have a second daughter) returned to Michigan in 1966, where Harrison scratched together a living for the family through freelance journalism and hand labor.
	www.lectures.org /harrison.html (1273 words)

	BookPage Interview November 2002: Jim Harrison
		Harrison went from barely supporting his wife Linda and their two daughters to making "well over a million bucks in contemporary terms." He was utterly unprepared.
		Harrison believes it was the devotion to his calling as a poet and fiction writer that kept him from going over the edge.
		Harrison says he decided to call his memoir Off to the Side "because that is a designated and comfortable position for a writer." Throughout the memoir he mentions his lifelong need to hide out, at least metaphorically, in thickets, to be where he can look out and see but not be seen.
	www.bookpage.com /0211bp/jim_harrison.html (1003 words)

	Jim Harrison : The Artist
		Jim Harrison's journey as an artist seems to have begun when he first climbed onto a sign painter's scaffold on the side of McCartha's Hardware in Denmark, South Carolina.
		Harrison credits his mother with providing the encouragement for him to develop his artistic interests beyond that of sign painting.
		Returning to Denmark was returning to his roots, and the Jim Harrison Gallery is housed in the very building where the young artist got his start more than fifty years ago as an apprentice sign painter for J.J. Cornforth.
	www.jimharrison.com /theartist (901 words)

	Conversations with Jim Harrison
		Conversations with Jim Harrison is the first-ever collection of interviews by this well-known, prolific writer whose books include twenty-two volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published over a period of thirty-six years.
		Harrison, a writer devoted to small presses and independent bookstores, has a formidable reputation as a recluse and defender of his privacy.
		Harrison discusses his peripatetic early life, his desire to be a poet since he was sixteen, and his subsequent "quadra schizoid" attraction to writing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2002/jim_harrison.html (371 words)

	Jim Harrison learns his money lesson
		Although Harrison admits he was prone to arrogance in the days before he had anything about which to be arrogant, years of struggling as a highly paid screenwriter in the deep but shallow trench between art and commerce have left him a humble and wiser soul.
		Harrison was in financial straits for having failed to file federal income tax for almost a decade, and Nicholson easily lured him to Hollywood, where top-rank literary writers were in demand by the new breed of filmmakers.
		Jim Harrison: Like doctors, they think that because they are good writers or good artists, that they ought to be good at money, too, but they aren't; it's a different game.
	www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20040622a1.asp (854 words)

	Review \| The Beast God Forgot to Invent by Jim Harrison
		While lifelong Michigander Harrison makes no bones about his preference for poetry over fiction (he was an established poet before, at the suggestion of friend Thomas McGuane, he tried his hand at prose), the author's consistent production of novels and novellas over the last three decades has garnered most of the critical attention.
		In his fiction, Harrison employs themes as various as the wanton destruction of the environment, a refiguring of Native American history and the anatomy of failed marriages.
		Harrison has never been shy about his bull-in-a-bookshop attitude and the effect of the well-placed literary reference (find a page without mention of a great writer or an important book and you win the prize).
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/beastharrison.html (1131 words)

	Amazon.de: The Road Home: English Books: Jim Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harrison leavens this spiralling saga with splendid passages about everything from the Lakota Sioux to bird hunting, from the complexities of art to the simplicities of the wandering life: "There's a sweet, vaguely scary feeling in disappearance," notes Dalva's son, Nelse.
		I've been a fan of Harrison since I read 'Legends of the Fall' in Esquire back in the 70's, so it was with great anticipation that I picked up this, his first novel in a decade and companion to the excellent 'Dalva'.
		Harrison is a terrific writer, though in contradiction to some of the other posts here he is not by any means in the same league as Twain and Hemingway, and I highly recommend Dalva, Legends of the Fall, Just Before Dark, Sundog and his poetry.
	www.amazon.de /Road-Home-Jim-Harrison/dp/0871137240 (1218 words)

	Smokebox.net Words: Off To The Side: On Jim Harrison
		Jim Harrison wrote that book, and twenty-three other books that are just waiting to be devoured.
		Harrison has spent almost forty years producing a small mountain of works (some twenty-two volumes) in his capacities as novelist, poet, screenwriter, food critic, magazine journalist, and essayist.
		Reading Jim Harrison really is good for you, almost a guilty pleasure in these hyper-correct times, in much the same way as eating a football-sized sirloin steak while waving to the fellow wearing a "meat is murder" t-shirt.
	www.smokebox.net /archives/word/vertharrison403.html (1138 words)

	Amazon.ca: True North: Books: Jim Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Harrison's earnest, initially riveting new novel, narrator David Burkett decides as a teenager in the 1960s that he must rectify the ecological damage done to his beloved Upper Peninsula area of Michigan by his rapacious timber baron ancestors.
		Still, Harrison's tragic sense of history and his ironic insight into the depravities of human nature are as potent as ever and bring deeper meaning to his (eventually) redemptive tale.
		Harrison is a novelist of the North Woods.
	www.amazon.ca /True-North-Jim-Harrison/dp/1587247364 (554 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Beast God Forgot to Invent" by Jim Harrison
		Harrison has been prowling the literary edges for four decades now, stubbornly eluding the snares of critical reduction -- including such dim taggings as "macho" and "regional" -- while producing a body of work so lushly idiosyncratic as to thwart even the gentlest efforts at classification.
		Harrison's Brown Dog, a ne'er-do-well Michigan Indian, first appeared in an eponymous novella in "The Woman Lit by Fireflies." Brown Dog is Harrison at his comic best: A hapless, rambling, vulgar antihero, Brown Dog is nothing less than the Don Quixote of the Upper Peninsula.
		Harrison's wit -- caustic, coarse and utterly charming, like that of a crazy old goat of an uncle spouting stories from afar -- is as whetted here as ever; you hardly notice the fervid intelligence clicking away in the background.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/10/19/harrison (1000 words)

	Susan Hurley Harrison
		Jim claimed that after Susan came to his house the night before, they began drinking and then arguing.
		When his cleaning-woman came to clean the house about a week after Susan disappeared, Jim requested that she clean the downstairs bathroom, normally little used but this time filthy with dirt and soil; he also asked her how often she emptied out her vacuum cleaner bag (she brought her own vacuum cleaner).
		Furthermore, although Jim claimed to love Susan and be distressed by her disappearance, he never made one effort to look for her, while her siblings and sons hired private investigators, put up posters and a billboard, kept at the media, and relentlessly searched for her.
	www.realcrimes.com /Harrison/Susan_Harrison.htm (1232 words)

	Jim Harrison Criticism
		Harrison's three long stories [in Legends of the Fall] are full of silent men and lovely women who desire to be ravaged.
		In "Legends of the Fall," the title piece and best of Jim Harrison's collection of three novellas—and it seems fair to rank them good, better and best—the usual way of combining intensity and breadth is discarded with engaging recklessness.
		Take, for example, Joseph, the school teaching hero of Jim Harrison's novel of rural Michigan, "Farmer." Joseph has been teaching 20 years in one of those small farming towns where one's private life and the talk of the town tend to be the same.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Jim_Harrison (1042 words)

	Jim Harrison
		Born in 1936, the tough Jim Harrison was a major force in the early competitive environments of both Judo and Karate in the U.S. A former AAU Judo champion, Harrison won numerous karate titles including the first ever full contact kickboxing match held in 1970 U.S. Karate Championships.
		Harrison, one of the toughest and hardest training competitors of his day was also known for many impressive and dangerous breaking feats, including shattering with a shuto strike a bottle full of gasoline with a lit wick that erupted into a ball of flame.
		Jim Harrison began his karate training in shorin-ryu under St. Louis, Mo. karate pioneer Bob Yarnall under whom he received his fl belt.
	www.usjjf.org /bio/harrison/index.htm (581 words)

	Jim Harrison III gives drugstore new life as art gallery
		Harrison's interest in photography – and his growing art collection of mostly 18th -, 19th-, and 20th-century American paintings and drawings – led to the idea of opening a gallery.
		Harrison also takes on new and less-established photographers on a consignment basis, as long as their portfolios look solid.
		Harrison is married with one son, James Harrison IV, a student at the University of Alabama who works for the gallery part time.
	www.harrisongalleriesllc.com /articles-lease.html (1073 words)

	The Official Bushidokan Karate Web Site
		Jim Harrison founded Bushidokan in the United States in the late 1960's, and although he lives (and teaches) today in Montana, he continues to conduct self-defense seminars around the country.
		Jim Harrison was 3-time U.S. Karate Champion, 3-time All American Grand Champion, the undefeated U.S. light-heavyweight kickboxing champion, and coach to the undefeated 1974-76 U.S. Professional Team.
		Jim Harrison is the founder of Bushidokan, Sakura Warrior Arts and Ronin Jutsu, and is one of the most highly regarded and respected instructors in the world of martial arts.
	www.bushidokan.net /index.html (1075 words)

	Elect Jim Harrison for Tuscarawas County Commissioner November 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		James A. (Jim) Harrison is a life long resident of Tuscarawas County.
		Jim joined the Sugarcreek Volunteer Fire Department in 1972 and graduated from Garaway High School in 1973.
		Jim was promoted to Fire Chief of the Sugarcreek Fire Department in 1990 and continues to serve in this capacity.
	www.jimharrisonforcountycommissioner.com /bio.htm (156 words)

	Martial Art Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jim Harrison needs no introduction to anyone who has had even a passing interest in the martial arts or combat sports over the past four decades.
		Harrison was awarded a Ph.D. in Research, Analysis and Instruction by Yudanshakai University and was inducted into the International Karate Hall of Fame with Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee.
		Attending Jim Harrison’s seminar was one of the most enjoyable days I have spent in a long time.
	www.martialinfo.com /articles/view.asp?id=112 (727 words)

	Jim Harrison learns his money lesson, page 2
		Jim Harrison: Yes, because the tendency is to turn to alcohol and drugs to make yourself feel better because the money didn't make you feel better so maybe this stuff will.
		Jim Harrison: Yes, when I was writing novels, I would go out there and get a screen job and make enough in two months to support myself for a whole year of novel writing.
		Jim Harrison: Yeah, I had to when I was in my 50s because I didn't have any retirement.
	www.bankrate.com /cnn/news/investing/20040622a2.asp (718 words)

	Jim Harrison hall of fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harrison calmly laid on the floor of the ring during the stitching without a flinch, then went on to win the fight with a knockout.
		Harrison managed to subdue his attacker before passing out from his wounds.
		Harrison, a retired police officer, continues a long and successful career as teacher, coach, competitor, and promoter.
	www.akbba.com /hof/harrison.html (346 words)

	Lannan Foundation - Jim Harrison
		Jim Harrison has published thirteen collections of poetry, including The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems; After Ikkyu; The Theory and Practice of Rivers; Natural World: A Bestiary; Returning to Earth; and Locations.
		Harrison is also the author of the non-fiction The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand, earning him the title, “The Henry Miller of food writing” in the Wall Street Journal.
		The Jim Harrison Papers, which consist of manuscripts, unpublished material, correspondence, notebooks, screenplays, photographs, and correspondence with noted American writers, including Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, Ted Kooser, and Peter Matthiessen, were recently acquired by Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
	www.lannan.org /lf/bios/detail/jim-harrison (234 words)

	What I'm Reading: Jim Harrison: Off to the Side
		Wrote a bit about Jim Harrison and this book in yesterday's diary because it's a writer's memoir and he has some good writing success stories to tell.
		In this book, the reader is treated to a trek into Harrison's world and relationships, mostly his relationship with his own drives, demons, and desires.
		Harrison is too much a man's man and I'm too much a girly girl for me to like everything he writes about.
	www.cynthiaharrison.com /reading/archives/2003/10/jim_harrison_of.html (311 words)

	PSDI Vita of Jim Harrison
		Born in 1936, the tough Jim Harrison was a major force in the competition and development Judo, Karate and what is now called Ju-jitsu in the Americas.
		Yes, Jim Harrison continues to set the standards by which all others are judged, and there is no doubt martial artists will be talking about him come the next millennium.
		Yes, Jim Harrison was and still is the voice of truth and continues to be known worldwide for his candor.
	www.wkf.org /dir.psdi/personnel/psdiHarrison.html (1130 words)

	James Irving (Jim) Harrison, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jim Harrison founded Harco Drug Stores, Inc., an extensive regional company with 150 full-service pharmacies in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi.
		Harrison attended the University of Alabama and was a 1955 pharmacy honors graduate of Howard College (now Samford University).
		Harrison's example of community and business leadership is an inspiration to his many friends and associates.
	www.healthcarehof.org /honorees99/harrison.html (176 words)

	Salon Books \| THE SALON INTERVIEW \| Jim Harrison
		Harrison lives in the remoter corners of northern Michigan and southern Arizona with Linda, his wife of almost 40 years.
		He's been moonlighting as a screenwriter for the last two decades and has been paid vast amounts to write scripts for films that almost never reach your local cineplex (1994's "Wolf" was a notable exception, as was the film based on his book "Legends of the Fall").
		Harrison." Harrison's reply was quick: "I promise just to let it breathe until 4," which he did.
	archive.salon.com /books/int/1998/12/cov_02intb.html (910 words)

	Six Short Essays About Jim Harrison \| Books & Writers \| New West Network
		About his novels and novellas, Jim Harrison has written, "...they sometimes strike me as extra, burly flesh on the true bones of my life though a few of them approach some of the conditions of poetry." He told me now, however, "I try not to differentiate the forms.
		Harrison is one of the toga-robed sages positioned in his own courtyard corner of high western literature and poetry.
		As someone who spent their formative years wandering throughout the U.P. and then moved West, I have an affinity to Harrison that I cannot describe other than to say he writes of the photograph of what I was and the cartographer of where I am going.
	www.newwest.net /index.php/topic/article/9782/C39/L39 (3485 words)

	Amazon.com: The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand: Books: Jim Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harrison is at his best when rhapsodizing about memorable meals and contemplating his existence in the universe.
		Jim Harrison coaxes glorious feasts from from Upper Peninsula game meats, honky tonks of many states, and celebrated restaurants; not the least from the currents of his own life and times.
		Jim Harrison is a pretentious fop who needs to hang with real life for a little while.
	www.amazon.com /Raw-Cooked-Adventures-Roving-Gourmand/dp/080213937X (2397 words)

	True North by Jim Harrison: Reviews
		Harrison's tragic sense of history and his ironic insight into the depravities of human nature are as potent as ever.
		David's -- and Harrison's -- real mission is nothing less than pure transcendence; the social, political and psychological clear-cutting at which he diligently labours away is ultimately only the necessary starting point for the sowing of an elusive, spiritually regenerative seed.
		The chronology becomes too disjointed and confusing, and the underlying theme of the personal redressing of the sins of one's father remains too underlying, too diffusely explored, and fails to hold the plot elements together.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/harrisonjim/truenorth (520 words)

	Amazon.de: Off to the Side: A Memoir: English Books: Jim Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harrison's opinions and conclusions occasionally remain obscure ("nearly everything you hear about Mexicans in the great north is utterly untrue")--but, to the benefit of readers, Harrison is never at a loss for ideas.
		The solace Harrison finds in the natural world is most compelling, and it could be said he, too, shares Frost's "lover's quarrel with the world." After losing an eye at an early age and sinking into melancholy, Harrison's father advised that "curiosity will get you through hard times when nothing else will.
		With "no expertise outside of [his] own imagination" Harrison plays to his strengths in Off to the Side by setting down the events, experiences, thoughts, and feelings that have shaped his quite literate, truly American life.
	www.amazon.de /Off-Side-Memoir-Jim-Harrison/dp/0871138603 (564 words)

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