You Don’t Need To Be Happy You Just Need To Write: A Tribute To Jim Krusoe
Edited by Monona Wali
This book is a tribute to Jim Krusoe—novelist, poet, short story writer, and teacher—from the students whose lives he transformed through his insightful and highly iconoclastic lens. It is a book on writing, and how to think about writing, with lessons that can be easily applied.
Jim Krusoe is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. He is the author of six novels, including The Sleep Garden, Parsifal, Toward You, Girl Factory, Erased, and Iceland, in addition to a collection of short stories entitled Blood Lake and Other Stories, and several collections of poetry. The Sleep Garden was a New York Times 2016 Editors Choice, and Iceland was selected by the Los Angeles Times and the Austin Chronicle as one of the ten best fiction books of 2002. It was also on the Washington Post list of notable fiction for the same year. His stories and poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, BOMB, Iowa Review, Field, North American Review, American Poetry Review, and Santa Monica Review, which he founded in 1988. His essays and book reviews have appeared in Manoa, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times and the Washington Post. He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund.
He teaches in the graduate writing program of Antioch University, Los Angeles. He taught a legendary writing class, known familiarly as 30b, for thirty-five years at Santa Monica College before retiring in 2020.
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