I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer

by John Nichols

Overview

I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer is the memoir of Nichols's extraordinary life, as seen through the lens of his writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826363794
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	06/01/2022
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

At the time of his death in 2023, John Nichols had published eleven works of nonfiction and thirteen novels, including the classic The Milagro Beanfield War. A resident of Taos since the 1960s, his recent works include The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest! A Novel; On Top of Spoon Mountain; and My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose (all from UNM Press).

Editorial Reviews

[I Got Mine] shines with the author's bright spirit and never-failing sense of humor.—Sallie Bingham, Pasatiempo

"Nichols leaves us with solid advice for the writer and a nostalgic rally for himself."—Taos News

"Nichols leaves us with solid advice for the writer and a nostalgic rally for himself."—Taos News

"Touching, hilarious, and candid. . . . A book of hard-bitten, determined philosophy."—The Paper

"This is an intimate portrait of a man as writer. No other work, or person, can look back at the whole of John Nichols' life as John himself can. It's a book less about the craft of writing than what it feels like to try to live an ethical life as an artist. It is a beautifully tangled and complex story—a work that feels both intensely considered and as casual as someone talking to you over the kitchen table at two in the morning."—Paul Skenazy, author of Temper CA

"John Nichols is a master storyteller, a man possessed of a gift for prose metaphor unsurpassed in his generation."—V. B. Price, author of The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project

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