JWH

James W. Hall is the author of 23 novels. His latest, Trickster, is a new Thorn novel that was released in July of 2022. Sixteen of his novels feature a hardcore loner named Thorn, who makes a meager living tying bonefish flies. Thorn, and his private eye pal, Sugarman, have teamed up to thwart animal smugglers, cruise ship hijackers, rogue medical experimenters, and other assorted villains. Starting out his writing life as a poet, Hall published four collections of poetry, three of them with Carnegie-Mellon University Press. He also taught a generation of novelists as a professor of literature and creative writing at Florida International University. Several of his novels have been optioned for film and Hall wrote the screenplays for two of those projects, Bones of Coral, MGM-Pathe, Gruscoff-Levy Producers. (Co-writer, Les Standiford) And Under Cover of Daylight, (screenplay), Nelson Entertainment, Red Bank Studios Producers.

Pandemic Fiction

Two years. That’s how long I lived with Thorn as he wrestled with the dangers he faced in Trickster. During the last two years most of us got a taste of Thorn’s normal life. He’s always been an isolationist, happy to be by himself, focused on crafting his bonefish flies and the view of Blackwater

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Racing to the End

I’ve got a few more pages to go. There’s a sadness growing in my chest that’s familiar. I don’t want this to end, but I’m ready for it to end too. I remember that Abraham Maslow, the psychologist, called this feeling Self Actualizing. You know you’re doing something right if you regret finishing it. An

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Thorn’s House

Back in the early eighties when I was first living full time in Key Largo, I found the place so exotically beautiful that as I began to write that first novel set in the Keys, Under Cover of Daylight, one of my main objectives was to try to do justice to that captivating setting. At

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What I’ve Been Up To Lately

Been reading a lot and watching a bit of TV in the evening when the eyes are tired. (And of course I’ve been chasing the cursor across the blank page. More on that later.) Books: We got hooked on a TV show called Chance, (on Hulu) with Hugh Laurie and a wonderful actor I’d never

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Hemingway

The recent Ken Burns documentary on Hemingway (three-part series on PBS) was a fascinating reminder of the power that a single writer had on shaping American literature. During my forty-year university teaching career I taught a course in Hemingway a few dozen times.  Over the years I read all the biographies, most the scholarship, and

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