Wrote Hard, Put Away Wet
By AAN Staff
september 19, 2003 12:22 pm
Jim Crumley thinks about death. The
recent losses -- both after prolonged
battles with cancer -- of Missoula writer
James Welch and musician Warren
Zevon, an old Hollywood running buddy,
have hit him hard.
But if Crumley -- with nearly 64 years of
good, hard living behind him -- is feeling
his own mortality, he's not letting on. Not
even with chronic gout, not with perpetual
back problems (exacerbated by a recent
car crash), and not with the mysterious
malady that nearly killed him last year.
Nick Davis talks to the Missoula author, who
contemplates a large life, near-death and the
company of a few good friends.