On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an
American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors
through memorable meals and conversations "Some years later, George
Plimpton offered to punch me in the nose," recounts Rick Bass,
remembering fondly a conversation with the famed Paris Review
editor in his office, in which Plimpton, who had been slugged by
Archie Moore, offered to connect Bass to a "hoary genealogy" that
would include Ali and Frazier. Lineage has always been important to
Bass. Before the punch-that-could-have-been, there was his failed
bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy, and his first meal with Jim
Harrison, during which he could barely bring himself to speak. That
supper would eventually inspire this book, Rick's years-long
pilgrimage to thank his heroes, and to pass on their legacy of
mentorship to the next generation. The poignancy of this journey of
thanksgiving is intensified by the place in life at which Bass
finds himself. He is nearing sixty, his daughters are now grown,
and his wife of more than two decades, who accompanied him on that
long-ago dinner with Jim Harrison, has called an end to their
marriage. In the wake of this loss, Bass sets out, accompanied by
two young writers, to recapture the fire, the hunger, that has
faded from his life. The Traveling Feast is a book about meeting
one's debts in two directions--sending gratitude to the old
exemplars, and a few contemporaries, from Peter Matthiessen to
David Sedaris and John Berger to Lorrie Moore, while paying it
forward to the next generation of writers, believing in and
supporting them as Bass was by his own heroes. Each chapter in this
fruitful journey recalls the meeting, the meal, and the
history--the writer of the past and of the now. From the disastrous
pecan tart to the illegally transported elk meat to the photo op
gone awry are many resonant moments. What emerges is a guide not
only to writing well but to living well, to sucking out all the
marrow of life, in Thoreau's immortal phrase. The Traveling Feast
is a chronicling of the old ways, a cross-continent pilgrimage to
show gratitude for a legacy of American literature and the writers
who made it.
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