FIRSTS Magazine, December 2003, Volume 13, Number 10 (Thomas McGuane/Ernest Hemingway, Floyd Salas, Jon Hassler

Robin H. Smiley, 2003. Softcover. Very Good. FIRSTS: The Book Collector's Magazine. December, 2003, Volume 13, Number 10 issue, an invaluable magazine resource for book collectors. This issue focuses on Collecting Thomas McGuane, noted in his early works for a comic appreciation and multiple takes on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. His later writings reflect on relationships with the natural world in the changing American West. Comparisons are made between McGuane and Ernest Hemingway, thus explaining the cover of this issue. The article states that "This confounds McGuane." A bibliography of first editions included. Also featured in this issue is an article on Floyd Salas, an American fiction writer and boxer. His work is well known in the San Francisco Bay Area and among aficionados of both Latino literature and 60s era protest literature. Salas taught English at several local colleges, coached boxing, volunteered to teach at prisons and His work is well known in the San Francisco Bay Area He won a 2013 lifetime achievement American Book Award. One of his books, "Tattoo the Wicked Cross, was on The Chronicle's list of the 100 best books on the 20th century from the Western United States. Lastly, the works of Jon Hassler are featured along with a bibliography of his first editions. Hassler was a nationally respected author of novels, plays and nonfiction, and is widely considered one of the most insightful, entertaining and authentic voices of Minnesota. Clean copy with minimal shelf wear. 72 pp. 11" x 8 1/2". Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.