James Knisely.bsky.social
@james-knisely.bsky.social
Hi. I'm James Knisely. I'm honored to be the Novelist-in-Residence Emeritus at Seattle's legendary Blue Moon Tavern, an honor I shared for a time with Tom Robbins, and where Dylan Thomas and Theodore Roethke once toasted the muse.
Chance is a yarn that is at once an adventure, a mystery, and a journey to discovery of the self.
If anyone asks, I'll try to post something about how a horse opera can be existentialist literature.
If anyone asks, I'll try to post something about how a horse opera can be existentialist literature.
December 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Chance is a yarn that is at once an adventure, a mystery, and a journey to discovery of the self.
If anyone asks, I'll try to post something about how a horse opera can be existentialist literature.
If anyone asks, I'll try to post something about how a horse opera can be existentialist literature.
A loose retelling of Virgil's tale of Dido and Aeneus, Chance is the story of a drifting cowhand who wakes from a dead drunk one morning at the edge of a town he can’t remember. As he struggles to clear his mind, an old man’s tale of betrayal and revenge sends him on an unlikely quest.
December 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A loose retelling of Virgil's tale of Dido and Aeneus, Chance is the story of a drifting cowhand who wakes from a dead drunk one morning at the edge of a town he can’t remember. As he struggles to clear his mind, an old man’s tale of betrayal and revenge sends him on an unlikely quest.
Allow me to introduce myself. I like to write. My first novel, CHANCE: An Existential Horse Opera, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards. It's a literary western in the tradition of Stephen Crane, AB Guthrie, Walter VanTilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry & Cormac McCarthy. More shortly!
December 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Allow me to introduce myself. I like to write. My first novel, CHANCE: An Existential Horse Opera, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards. It's a literary western in the tradition of Stephen Crane, AB Guthrie, Walter VanTilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry & Cormac McCarthy. More shortly!