# Jim Harrison

Each guest on the My Favorite Things podcast brings a list of a list of five books, movies, music, art, and other creative works that have helped shape their lives. My guest for Episode 24 is writer Chris La Tray, who was poet laureate of Montana from 2023 to 2025, and is author of three books: * B…

A trend has emerged on this Signal Fire, and it’s one that I find pleasantly amusing, and also highly productive. The trend is this: I write something, share it with you beautiful souls, and then, sometimes, some beautiful times, it strikes a chord and it resonates and it forces your fingers to k…

This is a reading of the main essay from today’s letter. Not included in the audio: the poem and the fiction (but they are here in the notes). You should subscribe to the email version at luckywords.substack.com On Books Kate and I had our anniversary this week, and we went book shopping. Besides p…

What kind of person spends more than 51 years working with some of the world's most dangerous snakes, survives 16 accidental bites, lives on a meager pension, and puts nearly everything he has into a reptile zoo and venom research? Meet Jim Harrison, founder of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, home to mor…