2 days ago by mikegothard

“Literature is still the source of my greatest excitement. My prayer is that it is irreplaceable. Literature can carry the consciousness of human times and social life better than anything else. Look at the movies of the 1920s, watch the Murrow broadcasts, you can’t recognize any of the people. Now, ...

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42 days ago by Declan Burke

Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like to have written? THE LAST GOOD KISS by James Crumley. I read it ages ago as a fledgling novelist and suddenly lights went on. I’ve talked to a surprising number of oth ...

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46 days ago by JTWG

Good title since it's been a while since i've posted anything. I did manage a fishing trip out west to Colorado to fish for trout on the Frying Pan River and the Roaring Fork River. I stayed in the town of Basalt, Colorado and had a great trip. I caught a lot of fish, both browns and rainbows, and h ...

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64 days ago by tstouffer

Click here to view the embedded video. Dr. Aaron Adams from the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust tells us all about the new ESPN Television production, Pirates of the Flats. The highlights: Aaron gives us some inside scoop from his experience behind the scenes of the upcoming fishing series Pirates of the Fl ...

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77 days ago by editor

Our November 2009 issue includes my feature article, “Desert Bloom,” about Arizona’s 47 Ranch. Jay Dusard was the natural choice to photograph the story. In addition to being one of the most gifted photographers to ever come out of the West, Jay happens to live near the 47, and cowboys there on occa ...

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82 days ago by craiglancaster

I spent Thursday and Friday (and a sliver of Saturday) in Helena, Montana, for the Helena Bookfest. Among the highlights: * Hearing Alan Weltzien’s lecture on Thomas Savage, author of The Pass (1944). Despite having written 13 novels, Savage (who died in 2003) has largely been forgotten among reader ...

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92 days ago by ope

yglesias on district 9: One is tempted to complain that the political and social commentary offered by the film is a bit tired and not really all that insightful. But then you fall back on the question of why, exactly, I was expecting a movie that starts with aliens and ends with a big shootout to o ...

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114 days ago by Doug LeMoine

Thomas McGuane takes a shot at describing what it’s like to land a tarpon: The closest thing to a tarpon in the material world is the Steinway piano. The tarpon, of course, is a game fish that runs to extreme sizes, while the Steinway piano is merely an enormous musical instrument, largely wooden an ...

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137 days ago by Pete McDonald

“I’m not a scientist and I’m not going to be one. It takes all the brains I’ve got to figure out where game fish keep themselves.” Tom Skelton, 92 In The Shade, by Thomas McGuane

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257 days ago by kaizenj

Una scrittura rodata da anni di mestiere ma ancora affilata, un romanzo che trova nei particolari, nelle descrizioni e soprattutto nei personaggi una forza inaudita, una tridimensionalità più unica che rara. Thomas McGuane, classe ‘39, è un narratore di razza . Il canto dell’erba (Alet, pp. 224 – € ...

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