The Authors Road is a

INTERVIEWS

We travel with our trusty sidekick, Ella, in a truck we named “Rocinante Tres” (like Don Quixote’s horse and John Steinbeck’s camper-truck in Travels with Charley), hauling a 5^th wheel trailer we call “Hardscribble Hacienda” (after the home of an old friend, writer Hugh Mulligan).

On our travels some folks have asked us why we are doing this. Here are our answers:

• We are doing this project because we’re avid readers and writers who love to travel and are curious about the dynamic changes in today’s writing and publishing scene.
  
• We are doing this because storytelling is humankind’s most ancient, sacred and vital art.
  
• We are doing this to create a body of work about the art of writing and the current world of publishing . . . and share it.
  
• We are doing this because it gives our lives purpose, and we are giving back to the community.
  
• We are doing this to honor one of America’s greatest natural resources — its writers.
  

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It’s with heavy heart but always bright memories that I write to pass along the sad news that America has lost another great novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and Master of Living to the Edge and Beyond: Jim Harrison died yesterday, fittingly, if that can be said, in his study in Patagonia, Arizona working on a poem.

He was our 21st interview, filmed in his backyard near the Mexican border in 2012 on a cold day as blustery as him. Jim was one of those rare writers whose life was as legendary and full as his many written words. Most people know him by the movies he’s responsible for: Legends of the Fall, Wolf, Revenge. True lovers of the written word know him from his rich poetry and ribald essays. And some know him from his legacy of novellas, articles and essays that enriched our lives.

With great sadness Salli, Ella (our dog who Jim had a particular fondness for) and I mourn the loss of a True Man of Letters . . . and Life.