Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87

[Brownian Motion]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/arts/03bourjaily.html?hpw

"Mr. Bourjaily was an avid outdoorsman, a jazz aficionado and an amateur cornet player. (He bought his first instrument when he left the Army with his mustering-out pay.) His novel “The Great Fake Book” (1987) has an amateur jazz cornetist as a protagonist, and at Iowa he was known for organizing jam sessions (and parties and pig roasts) at his farm, Redbird, outside of Iowa City."

[paul secor]

Read The Great Fake Book when it was published. It's one of a small number of books I plan to reread in the near future.