Over the decades I’ve developed the impression that John Graves is the most honest writer in America, and also one of the best. Here is further evidence.” Jim Harrison, author ofLegends of the FallMy
This memorable book by one?of our finest writers chronicles two passions:?one for a dog named "Blue," another for the "guns of a lifetime." "Blue and Some Other Dogs" is a brilliant memoir about Grave
In Myself and Strangers, John Graves, the highly regarded author of Goodbye to a River and other classic works, recalls the decade-long apprenticeship in which he found his voice as a writer. He recou
"A kind of homemade book—imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It's a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Tu
"Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas." —New Yorker"Graves writes eloquently about a countryman's concerns. There's not a false note in the book." —Boston Globe&
In Goodbye to a River, John Graves defined what it means to know a river—as a real place, as a landscape of memory and imagination, and as "a piece of country, [that] hunted and fished and roamed over
Since the publication of his haunting, elegiac Goodbye to a River in 1960, John Graves has become one of Texas’ most beloved writers, whose circle of loyal readers extends far beyond the boarders of h
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometim
