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Wrote Hard, Put Away Wet

By AAN Staff
september 19, 2003  12:22 pm
Wrote Hard, Put Away Wet
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.
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