Jim Harrison Books in Order

Harrison's debut poetry book, full of close looking at the natural world and the rough edges of young adulthood. The poems already show his mix of hunger, humor, and plain American speech.

A nonfiction collection built from travel notes, food writing, and literary pieces. Harrison moves through specific places and shows how a landscape can pull memory, mood, and argument into focus.

Interviews with Jorge Luis Borges spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Poems that mix plainspoken narrative with the tight, repeating music of the ghazal. Harrison writes about sex, drinking, landscape, and mortality, letting form sharpen the bite of what he has to say.

A man retreats to the northern Michigan wilderness, hoping to glimpse a wolf, and ends up telling the story of his life. Part confession, part survival trip, it keeps circling loneliness, hunger, and the need to keep moving.

A group of restless young men drift into radical plans, and the line between protest and violence starts to blur. Set against threatened landscapes, the novel follows their anger, their bravado, and the consequences they can't control.

A book-length sequence of poems addressed to the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, written as argument, confession, and tribute. Harrison uses the imagined correspondence to talk about drink, desire, art, and the urge to disappear.

A middle-aged teacher and farmer finds his ordinary life tilting into obsession, desire, and fear as he faces family illness and his own restlessness. Harrison keeps the story intimate, with dark humor and uncomfortable honesty.

Three novellas about love, violence, and reinvention, including the title story of a father and three sons in the northern Rockies. The collection moves fast and hits hard, showing how a single choice can echo for years.

Interviews with Czeslaw Milosz spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Poems rooted in place, animals, weather, and the uneasy life of the body. Harrison's lines shift from rough humor to sudden clarity, keeping the natural world close and refusing easy comfort.

A wide snapshot of Harrison's early poetry, pairing selections from his first books with new work from the same period. The poems move through love, grief, and the outdoors in a direct, talk-to-you voice.

Set in the frontier town of Warlock, New Mexico, this novel follows a community edging toward violence, with lawmen and outlaws testing what justice can mean. Harrison treats the West as messy human ground, not myth.

Interviews with Graham Greene spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

After years building dams, foreman Robert Corvus Strang is injured and forced to look back on a life of work, travel, love, and damage. A journalist's visit prompts his tough, restless self-portrait.

Interviews with Eudora Welty spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Isaac Bashevis Singer spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Walker Percy spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with William Styron spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Ernest Hemingway spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Lillian Hellman spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Malcolm Cowley spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Tennessee Williams spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Arthur Miller spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Flannery O'Connor spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Katherine Anne Porter spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Peter Taylor spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Truman Capote spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Edward Albee spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Erskine Caldwell spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Gathering interviews from across his career, this book lets Vonnegut talk about his books, his war experiences, his politics, and his writing habits in his own conversational voice. The exchanges show him by turns generous, cranky, and funny as he fields questions from many eras.

Interviews with Norman Mailer spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Dalva Northridge, a middle-aged social worker, heads back to her family's Nebraska roots and the history she has tried to outrun. As she searches for the daughter she gave up, the story opens into a multigenerational saga tied to the Sioux and the land.

This volume gathers twenty seven interviews with Baldwin from 1961 to 1987, drawn from newspapers, radio, and journals. The conversations show his shifting thoughts on literature, politics, sexuality, faith, and what it meant to live as a Black writer between two continents.

Interviews with Joyce Carol Oates spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Robert Graves spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Robertson Davies spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Shelby Foote spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Eugene O'Neill spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with John Gardner spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Raymond Carver spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Richard Wilbur spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Tom Wolfe spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Poems that use rivers as both real places and working metaphors, moving between landscape and inner weather. Harrison writes with a steady eye for detail and a sense of time passing, sometimes with a grin.

Three novellas set among driftless lives and sudden passions, including the first appearance of Brown Dog in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Harrison writes with quick comedy and sharp pain, letting small decisions turn into lasting trouble.

Interviews with Bernard Malamud spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Elizabeth Spencer spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Reynolds Price spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with M. F. K. Fisher spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Nikki Giovanni spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Robert Coles spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Thornton Wilder spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Paul Bowles spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Richard Wright spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

A gathering of nonfiction pieces, from food and travel writing to literary essays and memories from the road. Read together, they show Harrison's range and his habit of finding a story in almost any place.

More interviews with Walker Percy, continuing discussion of books, craft, and life. Read after the first volume to catch the later voice and concerns.

Interviews with Amiri Baraka spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Henry Miller spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

A collection of interviews that offers insight into the unique literary partnership between Erdrich and Dorris. They discuss their collaborative process, the themes of their individual books, and the complexities of writing about Native American experience.

Interviews with Saul Bellow spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Toni Morrison spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

A trio of novellas that moves between jailhouses, bars, and back roads, following people who make bad choices for understandable reasons. Harrison keeps the tone darkly funny, with sex and violence never far from the surface.

Interviews with Chester Himes spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Ernest Gaines spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Ishmael Reed spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Ralph Ellison spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Susan Sontag spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Late poems that keep company with aging, hunger, and the natural world. Harrison nods to the poet-monk Ikkyu while staying rooted in his own plainspoken voice and quick, sharp turns.

Interviews with Derek Walcott spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Elizabeth Bishop spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Pauline Kael spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

More interviews with Eudora Welty, continuing discussion of books, craft, and life. Read after the first volume to catch the later voice and concerns.

Interviews with Chinua Achebe spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with N. Scott Momaday spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with V. S. Naipaul spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Denise Levertov spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Maxine Hong Kingston spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

A return to the world of Dalva Northridge, told through a different narrator who tracks the family across decades. The novel moves between Nebraska history and present-day longing, asking what we inherit and what we can repair.

A selected poetry volume that gathers work from across Harrison's early decades. The poems move between the Midwest and the West, mixing blunt humor with close attention to birds, weather, desire, and loss.

Interviews with E. L. Doctorow spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with John Fowles spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with William Faulkner spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Leslie Marmon Silko spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Salman Rushdie spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with William S. Burroughs spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Three novellas that lean into Harrison's mix of yearning and misbehavior, with characters chasing sex, money, or escape and finding consequences instead. The stories are compact but spacious in memory, drifting between comedy and regret.

A short children's story about a boy named Jimmy who suffers a serious eye injury and struggles with anger afterward. In the Michigan woods, animals and quiet routines help him find steadier ground.

Interviews with Chaim Potok spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Christopher Isherwood spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Richard Ford spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Essays about food, travel, and sport, written with Harrison's mix of appetite and skepticism. He moves from restaurants and recipes to fishing trips and literary arguments, always circling back to what pleasure costs.

Interviews with Clarence Major spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Erica Jong spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

A collection of interviews with Jim Harrison, spanning decades of talk about poetry, fiction, hunting, food, and the writing life. He argues, jokes, and reflects, giving a candid sense of how his work and habits evolved.

Interviews with Margaret Walker spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Mary Gordon spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Elie Wiesel spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Harrison's memoir, told in brisk scenes and sideways reflections, from growing up in Michigan to building a life as a working writer. He writes about friendships, failures, reading, and the daily discipline behind the books.

A book of short poems exchanged between Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser, written like quick letters. The pieces are funny, warm, and attentive to birds, weather, food, and the ordinary days that make up a life.

Interviews with F. Scott Fitzgerald spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.