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Jim Ruland
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The Ruland family received quite a surprise this weekend when we opened up the March 2012 issue of Reader's Digest and saw our faces staring back on the front page. Photographer Tamara Reynolds did a really amazing job of capturing the setting at Coronado Beach, one of our favorite places to spend time together as a family.
When I found out that "Homeward Bound" had won the contest, I didn't bel...
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Big Lonesome
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2005
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Nouns of Assemblage
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Re:Telling
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Bare Knuckle Boxing in the Mississippi Back Woods (Nonfiction)
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I've got a short article in the latest Oxford American about my search for the site of the greatest bare knuckle boxing match in American history: John L. Sullivan's epic, 75-round bout with Jake Kilrain in July of 1889, Richburg, Mississippi.
What's Big Lonesome about? (Literature & Fiction)
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It's an overstuffed quesadilla of a short story collection. There's some historical fiction that ranges from the Blitz in Belfast to the Chicago Haymarket Riots. There's some crime fiction. At least one sailor story. A stalker's diary from her time in the crawlspace of a stripper's house. Dick Tracy, Popeye the Sailor, and the Big Bad Wolf all make appearances. There's a conflicted catechism about a messed up love triangle. And, in the title story, a 19th century orphan gets mixed up with a clairvoyant school teacher and an Indian named Tonka who may or may not be a robot.
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“Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.”
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Jim, I just got a copy of" Big Lonesome" and am reading it. I did a book years ago for Bantam called: "The Monk and the Marines", Brian Brock knows it. I am having another book coming out this April called "The Cauldron of Light". I would like to send you an E-book disc from the gallies we are working on now. My e-mail address is: dot0209@yahoo. comSend me an address where I can mail this to you.
I will be re-publishing "The Monk and the Marines" this Summer. And "South of the Padmah" in 2012 and "the Stone at the End of Time" in 2013.
Jim! I miss those Vermin on the Mount evenings. We need them in DC. (You have any fiction friends here? I'm accepting introductions.) Say hello to Nuvia for me.
Hey man:I was reading your dispatches from the Joyce conference on the Believer website from a few years back---good stuff! You made me want to try to do something similar about a Hemingway conference. Nice work!
