"The Longest Silence"
AS THOMAS MCGUANE once pointed out, the only discipline that has spun off more books than fly fishing is mathematics. But just a handful of works float at the surface of angling's literary runoff, and one of them is The Longest Silence, a collection of essays that if it was not about an outlier sport might have earned The National Book Award or similar recognition. We're happy this holiday season to call attention again to one of the first of Tom's pieces we ever published, back in 2006, the essay that provided the collection's title.
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| "Many of the autographed books in my library contain typically inane inscriptions, but there are also some pretty good ones, and a few that have special meaning for me. The late Stanley Bascom, who, under the pseudonym Milford Poltroon, edited the extremely funny “piscatorial periodical” known as The Wretched Mess News, sent me a copy of his 1971 book, How to Fish Good, with the following inscription: 'Steve! This is the best book I ever wrote. Milf Poltroon.'" Read on... |
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