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Tender Mercies http// www. com/ ftissues/ ft9408/ reviews/ zaleski. A close look at "Dear James." Book review by Philip Zaleski. The Wit, Wisdom and Wonder of Writer jon hassler - http// www. org/ Messenger/ Nov1998/ feature2. Search only in hassler, jon Search the Web. hassler, jon
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The Loves Of His Life
Indepth review of jon hassler's book North of Hope. By Richard Russo, writing in the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/06/24/specials/russo-hassler.html

Extractions: ince 1977, with the publication of ''Staggerford,'' Jon Hassler has given us a series of wonderful novels that have earned glowing reviews and a loyal, fervent following among those fortunate enough to have discovered his work. Until recently, however, he seems to have been published halfheartedly. One reason may be that his novels are all set in northern Minnesota, branding him a ''regional'' writer. The conventional wisdom seems to have been that Mr. Hassler's novels were of ''specialized interest,'' a phrase used in the business to describe books that publishers don't know how to market. Often these are the best books - too imaginative and well written to fit genre formulas, too accessible to be seen as ''literary'' in the strict Henry James/William Faulkner sense. In fact, Mr. Hassler is one of those writers who make storytelling look so easy that the severe guardians of contemporary literature may be suspicious. Part of Jon Hassler's brilliance has always been his ability to achieve the depth of real literature through such sure-handed, no-gimmicks, honest language that the result appears effortless. So perhaps it will not be surprising if ''North of Hope,'' his brooding, meditative new novel, is the one that makes him the household name he deserves to be. It's his longest and, in some respects, his most ambitious novel, but it's also a book that, for all its virtues, reveals its author's struggles. For once Mr. Hassler hasn't managed his customary illusion of effortlessness.
Rufus At The Door & Other Stories By Jon Hassler
jon hassler wrote 27 short stories in the 1970s, published a few in small literary quarterlies and then turned to
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Extractions: the perfect window through which to view his characters' lives Annette Sandford The Dallas Morning News Jon Hassler wrote 27 short stories in the 1970s, published a few in small literary quarterlies and then turned to writing novels. His first published novel, Staggerford (the story of a week in the life of Miles Pruitt, a high school English teacher), was widely praised. Eight more well-received novels followed, while his earlier stories languished with their rejection slips in a neglected file box. Now, praise be, the Afton Historical Society Press has brought them to light. The first group of stories, Keepsakes and Other Stories , came out last year, and now we have Rufus at the Door . It seems incredible that these splendidly rendered tales could ever have been passed over. Mr. Hassler's clear, uncluttered, easygoing style provides his people (they are so much more than characters) with exactly the right atmosphere for the enactment of the dramas of their lives.
Hassler, Jon
Comments/Inquiries ©New York University 19932003. hassler, jon. Sex, Male.National Origin, United States of America. Era, Late 20th Century. Born, 1933.
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When We Don't Quite Fit, Sojourners Magazine/January-February 1997
An introduction to jon hassler and review of several of his novels. By Patricia Horn and Mark Preece.
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Extractions: Minnesota writer Jon Hassler's novels teem with memorable characters and stories. He fills them with surprising moments of grace, humor, and generosity. "I've been told that I make good people interesting," Hassler says of his work. He does. A former small-town high school teacher and college English professor, Hassler writes of teachers and students, small towns and faculty lounges with some authority. Take Simon Shea. As Simon's Night opens, he has checked himself into the Norman Home, a rest home with a reputation for humane treatment of the elderly ("which is to say," as Simon summarizes it, "that we are neither encouraged to become senile nor encouraged not to.") He had retired to his remote cabin on the banks of the Badbattle after a distinguished career teaching English at Rookery State College, but moved to the Norman when he detected what he took to be the first signs of mental disintegration. Simon tries to accommodate himself to a life spent rehashing the past over cookies with his fellow inmates. But it's obvious he doesn't belong in a nursing home. He can't avoid injecting life into the moribund Norman, sometimes with disastrous (and comic) consequences. After reflecting on the misadventures of one particularly difficult day, Simon concludes his nightly prayer:
Hassler, Jon The Love Hunter
Literature Annotations. hassler, jon The Love Hunter. Genre, Novel (311 pp.).
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Extractions: The Love Hunter Genre Novel (311 pp.) Keywords Caregivers Death and Dying Depression Disability ... Suffering Summary Larry is dying of multiple sclerosis. He walks only with assistance, suffers severe depression, is beginning to be incontinent, and has attempted suicide. His best friend, Chris, decides to take him duck hunting, a sport that has been central to their close relationship. This, however, will be their last trip: Chris has decided to drown Larry in the marsh, as a last act of his love. As this novel retraces the growth of their friendship, it also traces the growth of Chris's love for Larry's wife, Rachel. Rachel has been an almost saintly caregiver for her husband, weathering his increasing disability and despair, while struggling to maintain her own identity and peace of mind. Commentary I won't tell you how the story ends. Hassler is a Minnesota writer whose novels have achieved a good amount of acclaim. What could easily become a melodramatic, over-wrought love story becomes, in his hands, a rich study of friendship, mourning, and the impotence that frustrates so many people who must watch loved ones lose their vitality and companionableness. The portrait of Rachel, in all her perfection and good sense, seems almost too good to be true, but also offers a glimpse at the kinds of decisions faced by many young wives of charismatic husbands.
Graves Of Academe
Forget Garrison Keillor and the Coen brothers. jon hassler is Minnesota's most engaging cultural export. Review of The Dean's List, in the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/01/reviews/970601.01poseltt.html

Extractions: orget Garrison Keillor and the Coen brothers. Jon Hassler is Minnesota's most engaging cultural export. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Hassler has written eight novels, set in his home state, whose local color encompasses a wide spectrum of human nature, deftly navigating the rich territory between sentiment and satire. But reading Mr. Hassler's ninth novel, ''The Dean's List,'' a sequel to his previous one, ''Rookery Blues,'' is not unlike the painful experience of visiting a beloved old friend who's not doing so well. The face and voice are familiar; there are flashes of wit and heart; but you're distressed by the diminished powers before you. Much of ''The Dean's List'' lingers among the aged and infirm, the disillusioned and the depressed. The novel is seen through the eyes of 58-year-old Leland Edwards, dean of northern Minnesota's amusingly mediocre Rookery State College (''too remote for the ambitious on their way up and too cold in the winter for the popular on their way down''). Readers of ''Rookery Blues'' met Leland back in l969 as an English professor and aspiring jazz pianist who found spirited fellowship with a bunch of academic misfits in the short-lived but glorious Icejam Quintet. Twenty-five years later, administrative duties leave Leland little time for music; his mother, Lolly, is dying of emphysema and her son is sandbagged by her smothering needs.
Catholic Digest HELLO HEAVEN / Conversation With A Catholic Novelist
Joe Towalski interviews jon hassler.
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Extractions: By Joe Towalski N Looking back, Hassler credits small-town Minnesota for cultivating his eye for detail, his storyteller's stock-in-trade for creating colorful and memorable characters. Soon after his birth in Minneapolis in 1933, Hassler's family traded the big city for rural life in northern Minnesota. Then, when Jon turned 10, his father moved the family to southern Minnesota to open a grocery store. "I think all of that little town paraded in front of the check-out counter," Hassler recalls. "I got to know all those people, their lives, and what happened to them over the years. I think it was good training as a novelist to study people like that." And since those days, that training seems to have served him well. Last year, for instance, Hassler finished his eleventh novel, The Dean's List , his second book about the idiosyncrasies of academic life at remote Rookery State College. More recently, he completed a volume of memoirs
Jon Hassler Theater : 2003 Season
The Staggerford Murders a comedy whodunit by jon hassler. Click here for ticketprices! jon hassler is Minnesotas most engaging cultural export.
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BRAINERD - Tempo Arts Hassler Visits Class Studying His Books 04/26/01
jon hassler returned to Central Lakes College as an honored guest. Brainerd Dispatch
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Extractions: Kathy Hauser of Crosslake greeted her former instructor Jon Hassler during the renowned Minnesota author's visit Tuesday night to Joe Plut's "Authors in Focus" class at Central Lakes College. The class studied Hassler's novels. During the author's visit, students served food and wore clothing labeled with locations mentioned in his books. (Dispatch Photo by Steve Kohls) Hassler visits class studying his books
Jon Hassler Discussion
The Staggerford Flood by hassler, jon Released 09/2002. Simon's Night by hassler,jon Released 09/1997. Staggerford by hassler, jon Released 10/1990.
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BRAINERD - Tempo Arts Class On Hassler's Works Attracts Author's Loyal Fans 04/1
Feature article on a community college class devoted to jon hassler's fiction. Brainerd Dispatch
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Extractions: Central Lakes College instructor Joe Plut is teaching an evening class, "Authors in Focus," focusing on works by author and former Brainerd Community College instructor Jon Hassler. The class has attracted some of Hassler's former students and colleagues. Class on Hassler's works attracts author's loyal fans Tempo Correspondent Long before he published his first novel, teacher-turned-author Jon Hassler had gathered a loyal following among his students. They were attracted by his "laid back teaching style," his gentle classroom demeanor and his positive disposition, according to several former students who enrolled in Hassler's courses at then-Brainerd Community College in the early 1970s.
BookPage Fiction Review: The Dean's List
The Dean's List. By jon hassler Ballantine, $24. ISBN 0345416376. How else toexplain why his novels aren't known to everyone? Novels by jon hassler
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Extractions: Ballantine, $24 ISBN 0345416376 Interview by Alden Mudge How is it that the author of the very funny new novel, "The Dean's List," is not yet a famous American writer? True, Jon Hassler enjoys a devoted word-of-mouth following. The soulful "Staggerford" (published, at last, in 1977, when he was 42 years old) is, Hassler admits, "a cult book among English teachers, at least around Minnesota." His seven subsequent novels are recommended by knowledgeable librarians and thoughtful booksellers all over the country. His most recent book, "Rookery Blues" received high praise. And Hassler counts First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as one of his more famous fans. But Hassler's name sparks no flicker of recognition in the eyes of most of my well-read friends, and I wonder how that can be. It's not a question Jon Hassler feels comfortable opining about. In fact, during a recent phone interview about "The Dean's List," Hassler, an appealingly soft-spoken and apparently shy man, deflects all the large questions about themes and meaning that set lesser writers strutting in the footlights. "You know," he says, "I tell these stories. I guess there are themes there, but it's the stories that I'm interested in. Those large questions, I'm not the one to ask. I'm not sure a writer needs to understand his book entirely anyway. And I'm not sure a book is entirely finished until a reader reads it."
Scott's Books Inventory Listing
of the West $25.00 Hasselstron, Linda Leaning Into the Wind $14.00 Hassett, John- Charles of the Wild $5.95 hassler, jon - Dean's List $6.99 hassler, jon
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Scott's Books Inventory Listing
by Fletcher, Jessica $5.99 Deadly Justice , by Bernhardt, William $6.99 DeadwoodTrail , by Compton, Ralph $5.99 Dean's List , by hassler, jon $6.99 Dear James
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HoustonChronicle.com - 'The Staggerford Flood' By Jon Hassler
Nov. 21, 2002, 537PM. The Staggerford Flood. By jon hassler Viking. Copyright© 2002 jon hassler All right reserved. ISBN 0670-03125-9
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/books/ch1/1672288

Extractions: Because Agatha McGee's penmanship had become shaky with age, she relied on her younger friend Janet Meers to do her handwriting for her. "Janet, are you coming into town today?" she asked over the telephone. "I have some invitations I'd like you to copy out for me and address the envelopes." "Sure, what time?" "Before two. Lillian comes over at two." "I can come at eleven or one; take your pick." "Come at eleven; we'll have lunch." "Good, I'll bring sandwiches and soup."
HoustonChronicle.com - 'The Staggerford Flood' By Jon Hassler
By jon hassler. Viking, $24.95; 199 pp. DIEHARD fans of jon hassler's Staggerfordstories will welcome his latest, The Staggerford Flood.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/books/reviews/1670856

Extractions: Viking, $24.95; 199 pp. DIE-HARD fans of Jon Hassler's Staggerford stories will welcome his latest, The Staggerford Flood. It's a brief tale that brings together beloved characters from several previous novels, ties up a few loose ends and introduces a new subplot or two. Problem is, there's a summing-up quality that will discourage newcomers. This isn't the best route into the little Minnesota town Hassler created 11 novels ago. The Staggerford Flood is Hassler's first book for Viking. The plot is a model of simplicity: The Badbattle River is on the rise, flooding is imminent, and it's left to retired schoolteacher and active busybody Agatha McGee to provide refuge for assorted friends and neighbors in her high and relatively dry home.
Alphamusic - Staggerford
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