Julip (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jim Harrison
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novellas
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Nature, Prostitution or prostitutes, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Native Americans or American Indians, Violence, Wit or humor, Drug addiction or addicts, Southwest, Men, 1990’s
- Locales: Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin
Many of the best contemporary writers have never written (or at least published) a single short story. Cormac McCarthy immediately comes to mind, and several other names quickly follow: Toni Morrison, Paul Auster, Robert Stone, William Gaddis. The list goes on. There are exceptions—writers who have concentrated solely, and with unwavering fidelity, on the short story, including Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Andre Dubus, Alice Munro, and Stuart Dybek.
Although Jim Harrison is known best as a novelist, he occasionally narrows the scope of his storytelling powers in an effort to...
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