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Book Review: Brook Trout and the Writing Life, Craig Nova

Anthony Naples — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:20:45 +0000

Brook Trout and the Writing Life The Intermingling of Fishing and Writing in a Novelist’s Life By Craig Nova Foreword by Ann Beattie Eno Publishers 1999, 2011

Originally published in 1999 this version of Brook Trout and the Writing Life The intermingling of fishing and writing in a novelist’s life is newly expanded, though it is still a [...]

New Issue of Rise Forms is Live

Anthony Naples — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:38:14 +0000

A new issue of Rise Forms online literary fly fishing magazine went live today.

Threatened Species: Book Review and Interview

Anthony Naples — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:38:05 +0000

Threatened Species Jeff Vande Zande Whistling Shade Press, 2010

Threatened Species is a new collection of stories by Jeff Vande Zande. It brings together the novella Threatened Species along with five short stories. Since Casting Around is nominally a fly fishing blog let me say that most of these stories have some fly fishing action. [...]

New Online Fly Fishing Literary Magazine

Anthony Naples — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:17:59 +0000

I’d like to announce the birth of a new fly fishing magazine; Rise Forms: Fly Fishing’s Literary Voice. There are many fly fishing magazines available – most focus on “where-to” and “how-to” or they offer beautiful photos of gleaming fish and dream destinations. By design, Rise Forms will be a bit different from [...]

Book Review: Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

Anthony Naples — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:37:25 +0000

Trout Fishing in America (1967) by Richard Brautigan

Where to begin…A friend of mine, Larry, exposed me to Richard Brautigan about 15 years ago. It has been an on again off again relationship with Brautigan from that time on. Not because my enthusiasm for his writing has waxed and waned but because there is only so [...]

StoryArc: Good Reading

Anthony Naples — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:54:41 +0000

I recently came across StoryArc. This site is the work of David Motes. He presents fiction and poetry with a fly-fishing or outdoors focus. He is not going for the usual stories though. David explains the inception and focus of this project on his website in a section called A Rationale.

I’ve been writing fishing stories [...]