The legendary author and poet Jim Harrison died last week at the age of 78. Harrison was another member of the “next Hemingway” club, a hard-living, up-by-the-boot straps author who had gargantuan … [Read more...]

Author Jim Harrison could've died today, but yesterday was also a good day to die. His “masculine fiction” contemporary, Harry Crews, “bit the bagel,” as Crews might jest, four years ago today. He … [Read more...]

Bestselling author Michael Connelly wrote the foreword to Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews. Both he and Ted Geltner crossed paths with Harry Crews—Connelly as his creative writing … [Read more...]

TSA almost didn't let Ted Geltner through security with Blood, Bone, and Marrow! … [Read more...]

"We Are All of Us Passing Through"...Target. Seriously y'all, these smokin' tees will be given out at Book Expo America at the UGA Press booth! Here's Crews' story "We Are All of Us Passing … [Read more...]

The three-hour drive down to Crews country twice this week was dotted with billboards for western boots, bacon, pecans, peaches, plantations, and adult superstores. Signs advertised the Jefferson … [Read more...]

Where Does One Go When There’s No Place Left to Go? Whoever said utopia doesn't exist was wrong. Why, it's just about three looks down the road from Enigma. Oh, alright, one or two of you … [Read more...]

Agony followed ecstasy, though, after hours in the hot sun on mysterious business, especially when I put Ted Geltner to work promoting Blood, Bone, and Marrow on the side of Hwy 82, so we could gather … [Read more...]

"Enigma, Georgia, was a dead end..." But what a way to start a novel. Such great expectations Harry Crews had for this most beguiling small town when he set his first novel, The Gospel Singer, there … [Read more...]