J. R. Patterson

Jul 22, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | J. R. Patterson

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. My amada and I arrived in Barcelona from Paris. We saw from the start the two cities have much in common. Both went through architectural reorganization in the latter nineteenth century. Both have obelisks, both have towers (Eiffel, and the human castellers). Both have a gothic pong of open sewer. And rain. Great clouds, like scoops of gray mashed potatoes, heaped over the Collserola.

Jul 19, 2024 | theatlantic.com | J. R. Patterson

Before John Fogerty’s life became mine, there was cold. In November 2012, I was 22 and had left the family farm in Manitoba to find work in the oil fields of Alberta. I arrived during a bust and, because work was not immediate, spent the days driving my Ford F-150 around the country surrounding Calgary, listening to AM radio and my small collection of CDs—a few Rolling Stones albums, some outlaw-country records, and the complete discography of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Mar 25, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | J. R. Patterson

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. Literature can change the way we celebrate. The bull-running and fighting of Spain’s San Fermin festival was just a local affair before Hemingway brought it worldwide fame in The Sun Also Rises.

Dec 6, 2023 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Gene Yang |J. R. Patterson |Damjana Mraović-O’Hare |Vernon Duke

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Jul 3, 2023 | msn.com | J. R. Patterson

This spring, I was standing on the forward bow of the MS Santa Cruz II, bird-watching with a group of tourists under the cliffs of the Galápagos’s largest island, when one member of our company lowered his binoculars. “Lord have mercy!” he declared. “It’s just like it used to be.”I could see it too.