The traveling feast
Subtitle: on the road and at the table with my heroes
By: Rick Bass
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780316381239
Subjects: Travel; American Authors; Biography
Description: A transformative journey written in gratitude to the author's mentors describes his midlife attempt to recapture the passions of his youth, an effort marked by encounters with famous contemporaries and a variety of colorful mishaps.
Table of contents: title: Peter Matthiessen, RIP; title: Amy Hempel, good witch of Manhattan; title: Gordon Lish, captain fiction; title: Denis Johnson, a long time clean; title: Doug Peacock, Hayduke still lives; title: David Sedaris, trash collector extraordinaire; title: John Berger, old man of the mountains; title: Gary Snyder and the road to Kitkitdizze; title: Russell Chatham, the painter, recently hospitalized, emerges from seven-figure debt and alcoholism, ready to paint; title: Barry Lopez, carnivore for a night; title: Tom McFuane, AKA captain berserko, burning down the house; title: Lorrie Moore, fairy godmother : the road to the corn palace; or, The trail of ears; title: The road home; title: Joyce Carol Oates, Badass; title: Terry Tempest Williams, red-rock solid; title: Mississippi ghosts.