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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
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
"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
Rick Bass Cooks Dinner for His Neighbor and Talks About Writing
By
Rick Bass
| June 25, 2018
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
Rick Bass on a Lifetime of Writerly Shyness
By
Rick Bass
| March 31, 2016
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