{"id":506,"date":"2010-07-30T01:14:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-07-30T01:14:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T19:14:32","slug":"kent-haruf-one-of-our-finest-writers-close-to-completing-a-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/30\/kent-haruf-one-of-our-finest-writers-close-to-completing-a-new-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Haruf, One of Our Finest Writers, Close to Completing a New Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m loathe to do any literary name-dropping but in this case I think it’s worthy: Yesterday I had lunch with Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong<\/em> (1999, a finalist for and should have won the National Book Award), and\u00a0Eventide<\/em> (2004, for my money even better than Plainsong<\/em>, both knockouts), among others. He’s a great guy, soft spoken, modest, and self-effacing. Which is all important because I rank him as one of our best contemporary fiction writers, up there with Cormac McCarthy, and it’s a pleasure to meet a major writer who is not a stuffy egomaniac. He lives near Salida, Colorado, and we talked about living in the mountains, our shared annoyance of ATV riders. He said he’s close to being done with a new novel, and I would bet it will be good, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m loathe to do any literary name-dropping but in this case I think it’s worthy: Yesterday I had lunch with Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong (1999, a finalist for and should have won the National Book Award), and\u00a0Eventide (2004, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t