Category Archives: Lit
BOOK REVIEW: The Big One
Score one for participatory journalism. In 2007 David Kinney, a career newspaperman, dove headfirst into the collective insanity that is the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby. The result is The Big One, an exhaustively researched window into the … Continue reading
BOOKS: The Big One
“Open up that good book let it revelate to you.” –The Dexateens Just got in a review copy of The Big One, a book by David Kinney about the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, which is kind of … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Lit, Media, Northeast
Back Country
The skilful use of the pole is an absolute necessity in work in the Everglades. The Seminole hardly knows the use of a paddle; even on salt water he poles or sails around the coast. In the Everglades the paddle … Continue reading
Filed under Florida, Fly Fishing, Lit, Photos
GOOGLE BOOKS: Fishing In American Waters
Via Google Books, now reading Fishing In American Waters by Genio C. Scott, published by Harper & Brothers, 1869. Some highlights: Fish evince no mercy for any living thing which inhabits the waters, and most of the angler’s fishes feed … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Lit, Pimped Content
Cuba Releases Hemingway Archives
Cuba has made available thousands of unpublished Hemingway documents from his Finca Vigia estate. (Link found through Paste Magazine.)
Filed under Lit, Media, Pimped Content
Reading Murder Books and Trying to Stay Hip
I’m telling you man, this book has it all. Except fly fishing.
Filed under Florida, Lit, Worthless Opinions
PODCAST: Jim Harrison from 2002
“Unattended children will be bayonetted.” Something to listen to during shut-in season.
Filed under Lit, Media, Pimped Content
Bloggers With Book Deals
A guide in Alaska named Miles Nolte posts accounts from his life on the river into a thread on The Drake Magazine forums. The thread gets a following. One of the readers starts a publishing company. He signs up Nolte … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Lit, Media
LIT: Story Arc
Check out Story Arc, a literary outdoor blog just getting off the ground.
Filed under Lit, Media, Other Blogs
