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Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

”Death, and learning how to end a story: again, the woods made him into a writer.”

By Rick Bass | February 2, 2024

On the Solstice: Deep Winter Dreams of the Spring to Come

On the Solstice: Deep Winter Dreams of the Spring to Come

Rick Bass Considers the Truth of Things at the Darkest Time of the Year

By Rick Bass | December 21, 2020

Rick Bass on Salvaging America's Forest Arks Against the Coming Fire

Rick Bass on Salvaging America's Forest Arks Against the Coming Fire

"In the farthest, most northern places, we can still make a stand against climate change."

By Rick Bass | October 15, 2020

My Dinner with Denis Johnson

My Dinner with Denis Johnson

Rick Bass Cooks Dinner for His Neighbor and Talks About Writing

By Rick Bass | June 25, 2018

Rick Bass Remembers Jim Harrison

Rick Bass Remembers Jim Harrison

With his death, the world got smaller

By Rick Bass | March 31, 2016

From Mowing Eudora Welty's Lawn to Eating Ribs with Jim Harrison

From Mowing Eudora Welty's Lawn to Eating Ribs with Jim Harrison

Rick Bass on a Lifetime of Writerly Shyness

By Rick Bass | March 31, 2016

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