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"A culinary catharsis...The Traveling Feast serves up a rich smorgasbord of a memoir, truffled with pungent anecdote, sometimes funny, sometimes sorrowful, always savory. The melancholic power of these reunions is heightened by the reader's awareness that some of these literary lions (Peter Matthiessen, Denis Johnson, John Berger) were soon to roar their last. But there's also abundant hilarity, usually provided by Bass's mountain-man approach to the dinner table...A soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute."―Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review"This is a series of stories about travel and food...but it becomes more a story of life morals. Bass is collecting advice and credos from each writer in search of inspiration to move forward in his life and career...Each host's approach to life, love, nature, or time is revealed with quotes that will stick with you."―Ashley Day, USA Today"At 55, after a divorce that left him reeling, Bass lost his hunger for art--and stopped writing. To rekindle the spark, he reached back to his roots, setting out once more to become a student...The cure took, and this soul-satisfying book is the proof."―O, The Oprah Magazine"The Traveling Feast is by turns ruminative, hilarious and melancholy."―Jenny Shank, Dallas Morning News"In this exuberant literary road trip, Bass takes on the role of a roving wordsmith caterer, traveling the country to visit the writers who have inspired him and thanking them by preparing them home-cooked meals...Conversation inevitably flows through a series of wonderful, sincere encounters...Bass ruminates on what makes good writing and great writers while obsessing over his multicourse gourmet feasts with nearly the same devotion to detail...The camaraderie of like-minded literary folk is infectious, and Bass's account of hauling the meat of an elk he had a shot in Montana--now thawing and bleeding through its packaging--through Heathrow airport to David Sedaris's quaint British cottage is a miniature classic. This is a rich bounty of a book."―Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Bass's reflective, funny, and generous chronicle of culinary adventures and nourishing literary encounters will renew readers' appreciation for stories and storytellers and how literature guides us back 'to some deeper, older place.'"―Booklist (starred review)"In his latest, fiction and nature writer Bass pens an entertaining and love-infused gastronomical memoir...Dripping with tasty anecdotes, literary tales, and great food, this joyful book is delightful."―Kirkus"This stirring meditation on time, loss, and change--and gratin--tastefully blends road-trip-meets-grocery trip tales from an author's quest to cook for his literary heroes."―Shelf AwarenessPRAISE FOR RICK BASS:"A literary titan...His world-building is beautiful, crisp, and perfect." ―New York Times Book Review"Bass's prose is charged with a lyrical intensity rare in American fiction. The beauty of his sentences recalls the stylistic finesse of Cormac McCarthy and Willa Cather."―Chicago Tribune
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About the Author
Rick Bass, the author of thirty books, won the Story Prize for his collection For a Little While and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for his memoir Why I Came West. His work, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, among many other publications, and has been anthologized numerous times in The Best American Short Stories, has also won multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes, as well as NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Bass lives in Montana's Yaak Valley, where he is a founding board member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council.
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Product details
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (June 5, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316381233
ISBN-13: 978-0316381239
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
12 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#98,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I just finished reading this book after "devouring" it as fast as I could. It made me fall in love again with Rick Bass' writing. I've never really liked short stories, but some of his resonated with me. But it is his nonfiction that has always had the greatest pull for me. The past few I felt disappointed in, but I bought this one because I buy all of his books. He has been my favorite writer since I was a child and this book reminded me why. Though sometimes he can be too presumptuous in his reading of other's thoughts/feelings and sometimes descends too much in a sort of internal self indulgence, for the most part he shines here. For the most part, those faults are in the background and largely shed partway through the book. I love how he describes things. He tells things in striking images, some of which are hilarious. And his humor, to me, has always been understated but hilarious (like the incident with the food on the highway). I like that the book isn't really about the writers, young or old, but about an exploration of the questions he has in life. That is not to say that what he did in cooking was not genuine, but to say that this book which contains stories of these experiences is about a lot more than learnin' from or paying homage to the greats. He does a wonderful job too of weaving the feelings and questions surrounding his divorce in the story. Elizabeth is there throughout and my guess is she always will be for him. I feel like here he returned to what is most beautiful in his nonfiction--an exploration of a question/feeling/idea done with humility, grace, and humor. And with prose so rich--sparse and full at the same. Anyway, this might all sound like nonsense. Point is: I would consider this a masterpiece of Bass, raw and beautiful. It probably isn't for everyone, but you never know until you try! :)
Make sure you know what you're buying with this book. I bought this for more insight into my favorite writer - the late Denis Johnson - and others I admire like Peter Matthiessen, John Berger, David Sedaris, Tom McGuane, Lorrie Moore... If you purchase this book thinking you will learn more about these great writers, you'll probably be disappointed. The book is about Bass's project to travel the world cooking (sometimes) elaborate meals for writers he admires in one evening in an attempt to re-engage with the wonder of being a writer - which Bass explains he lost after a devastating divorce. Bass spends 5 pages explaining how he determinedly smuggled a (defrosting) frozen slab of elk meat from Montana to Surrey, England, as it leaks all over him, leaving his clothes stained by an unsavory trail of blood. If that sounds like fun, this book is for you. I bought this principally for the meeting with Denis Johnson, about whom we learn very very little. Bass tells us how much he hero-worships Johnson but there's little insight into Johnson and very little about what they discussed over their meal or about Johnson's hermetic life in the mountains of Idaho. Bass notes he's jealous of the happiness between Johnson and his wife Cindy Lee because of his recent divorce - one of the numerous examples of Bass viewing the other writer through his prism of misery and loneliness. Bass remarks about his 2 days in Surrey with David Sedaris "we talk of Chekov, Alice Munro, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Barry Hannah, Richard Ford...." Alas, we hear nothing about any of that but much about Sedaris' supposed infatuation with Lowry, Rick's daughter (which may have been simple kindness to a bored young person dragged along on a parent's adventure) and too much about how Bass messed up Sedaris' pots and pans, accidentally put his soggy elk meat in the ice maker and baked a tart that melted into a greasy inedible puddle. Most of the essays are like this - long on Rick Bass, who often seems to have made a mess of planning these meals. We're occasionally convinced we see glimpses of the writers being annoyed they agreed to be part of this project. The best essay is about Peter Matthissen who met Bass at his Montauk home near the end of his 86 years, tired and struggling with lymphoma but exhibiting enormous kindness and courtesy to Bass. And perhaps because Matthiessen had led a much examined public life for over 60 years, he is masterful at quickly conveying some anecdotes about his life and the art of writing before excusing himself to go lie down. I was repeatedly impressed with how the way many kindly extended themselves to Bass. How much better this book would have been with more focus on these great writers and less about Bass himself. I would love to know what Sedaris said to Bass about Eudora Welty or why Denis Johnson found great happiness with his 3rd wife Cindy -- Bass tells us he didn't feel comfortable asking Johnson about his marriage, although Johnson spent his life writing scorching fiction, poetry and essays about his numerous personal failings. If it's the other writers and not Bass himself you're interested in, look up their interviews online - especially the Paris Review interviews - for more reflections upon their lives and their work. You won't find it here.
Some of my favorite authors breaking bread and sharing insights. Autobiographical to boot. Bass's odyssey is a heartfelt study of his marriage along with tributes to his mentors. A great read!
The book was great but dang. I would really love to have some of those recipes. They really sound delicious.
Everything is here....except the recipes! I too sat at the tables and entered these authors homes. What a delight. Thank you Rick Bass and the Yaak!
Purchased as a gift for my son who lives in Montana and is an avid reader and journal writer. I read it first myself and loved it for the content as well as some suggestions of other good reads.
This was a joy! I read this book in one day! I’m a writer, but please know that it speaks to everyone! Food, writing, wine, friends! What more could you ask for?
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