“If you want want a rundown on the novels and non-fiction books I’ve published, click the tabs that say JOHN’S BOOKS. If you want to look up a bit of biographical stuff, click the tab marked BIOGRAPHY. If you’re interested in a few critical REFERENCES, click that tab.

If you’re an environmentalist and you think the human race can still save our planet from global warming, click the tab marked LOTSA LUCK.

I used to be the last writer in America without a website, but obviously this is no longer the case. However, I draw the line at e-mail and the Internet. If you want to get in touch with me for any reason you’ll have to use snail mail. The address is:

John Nichols
P.O. Box 1165
Taos, New Mexico 87571

You better hurry, though. As of February, 2022 I’m 81 years old, my heart is locked in A-fib, I’m still in terminal congestive heart failure, I take Lanoxin, carvedilol, coumadin and triamterene every day, and my doctor says my aortic valve is really sucking wind. And I’ve repeated this litany for the last decade.”

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This is posted to http://www.johnnicholsbooks.com.

There is no tab marked Lotsa Luck.

I think I love this guy, and this part of his cranky website, more than I love most of his books. So far, I think The Wizard of Loneliness is perfect, and that the Milagro Beanfield War is a broken and lovely masterpiece. Beyond that, the ones I’ve tried to read have been a slog for various reasons, and I haven’t had the chance to try anything he wrote after the Trilogy.

I hope I’ve got another twenty years so I can make it, earn it, to full curmudgeon status like he has. But right now it is much more important to me to learn how to stay in the present moment, however long those moments last.