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New York Times bestselling creator Jim Harrison was once one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote one of the most best essays on food around, earning praise as the poet laureate of appetite” (Dallas Morning News). A In point of fact Big Lunch, to be published on the one-year anniversary of Harrison’s death, collects many of his food pieces for the first timeand taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.
Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in A In point of fact Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A In point of fact Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison’s life during the last three decades. A In point of fact Big Lunch is a literary delight so they can satisfy each appetite.
Harrison is the American Rabelais, and he’s at his irreverent and over the top best in this collection.” John Skowles, San Diego Union-Tribune on The Raw and the Cooked