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Harry Groome

“Fall’s the perfect time to hunker down and read deeply.”

— The New York Times

1 min readOct 17, 2022

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“Fall’s the perfect time to hunker down and read deeply.”

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Harry Groome

Just Pee in the Cup

When I began publishing my Writers’ Notes in February of last year, my goal was to tell stories that focused on others — well-known public…

4 min readMay 16, 2022

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Just Pee in the Cup

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Harry Groome

REMEMBERING SWEET BABY JAMES

I would guess that many of you define “revisionist history” as I do: you’re dead sure that the way you remember events is accurate and that…

4 min readApr 6, 2022

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REMEMBERING SWEET BABY JAMES

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Harry Groome

Hunting, Fishing and the Law

Much like the opening of Norman Maclean’s A River Runs through It — “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly…

4 min readFeb 27, 2022

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Harry Groome

Fallen Idol

Traditionally, parachuting into hostile territory has been how airborne units enter combat, but, on occasion, the brass finds more creative…

4 min readJan 20, 2022

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Fallen Idol

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Harry Groome

Rejection, Death, and Oprah

In the winter of 1998/99, I was in my third residency at the Vermont College of Fine Arts seeking an MFA in Writing. The previous semester…

3 min readDec 14, 2021

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Searching

He was born in the crawl space underneath our cellar stairs. I don’t know why his mother, a stumpy chocolate Labrador named Mocha, ignored…

5 min readNov 14, 2021

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Searching

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Harry Groome

Norman Mailer and the Rope-A-Dope

A bellicose Norman Mailer had come to the Writers House to argue the premise of his most recent book, his case against the Bush…

4 min readOct 18, 2021

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Harry Groome

Superman at Thirteen

As we finished our seventh-grade year at Chestnut Hill Academy, Davis Miller was about to become our hero, the boy we all wanted to be. His…

3 min readSep 20, 2021

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Harry Groome

Handcuffed

Transporting prisoners wasn’t unfamiliar to me. In 1959, a soldier had gone AWOL from Ft. Bragg, and the police in Philadelphia had…

4 min readAug 16, 2021

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Handcuffed

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Harry Groome

Harry Groome

I’m a conservationist (and “recovering” businessman) who now writes novels and short fiction with an occasional poem or essay thrown in the mix.

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