Todd Goddard and Jamie Harrison signing event

Overview

Join us for an event celebrating the life of Jim Harrison with his daughter, Jamie, and her new novel A River Dream, as well as Todd Goddard and his new biography about Harrison, Devouring Time.

Devouring Time is the definitive biography of Jim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—and a penetrating deep dive into the life of the talent behind Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and True North.

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was widely considered one of the finest voices of his generation. His twenty-one books of fiction and fourteen books of poetry influenced a generation of writers. Harrison helped to shape the course of contemporary American literature, revitalizing in particular the novella form, of which he was a recognized master.

Based on more than one hundred original interviews and drawing upon Harrison’s collected papers, Devouring Time is the first and only literary biography of this beloved author, whose playful, irreverent, and spiritual work continues to find and delight new readers.

Todd Goddard is an associate professor of literary studies at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

In A River Dream, Clark City’s former editor, novelist Jamie Harrison, has collected some of the best of the press’s prose, art, and poetry, in a glorious celebration of a small and lost world.

An anthology and tribute to a unique independent publisher, Clark City Press.

In 1987, the painter and author and fly fisherman Russell Chatham, renowned for his stunning landscape paintings and his appetite for life, decided to take control of his own career by creating a publishing house in Livingston, Montana.

What began as an effort to publish Chatham’s own work and that of his friends (a large and varied group) in elegant trade paperbacks morphed into something grander and more wayward. Clark City Press published Thomas McGuane on fishing and memory, Guy de la Valdene on hunting woodcock, Richard Hugo’s only mystery, James Crumley’s short stories, and Peter Stackpole’s Life photos from the golden age of Hollywood.

Jamie Harrison became the editor at the Clark City Press in 1987 and has now lived in Montana for more than thirty years.