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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. [...]

My Ideal Fly Fishing Magazine

Anthony Naples — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:56:32 +0000

After yet another less than fulfilling experience with a major Fly Fishing periodical I find myself pondering the question of “What is the problem with Fly Fishing magazines?”

For the answer to this question maybe I should first take a look in the mirror. Is there something in me that’s the problem? Have I changed? [...]

2010 NaNoWriMo is almost Here!

Anthony Naples — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:34:47 +0000

November is National Novel Writing Month! I know there’s got to be some aspiring novelists out there. Make this November the month that you finally do it! NaNoWriMo is not about quality, it’s about quantity, 50,000 words in 30 days (that’s 1,666.66 words per day). The idea is to just get it down on paper, [...]

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 [...]

Blog Spotlight: Good Writing at Cutthroat Stalker

Anthony Naples — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:46:10 +0000

Scott over at Cutthroat Stalker has a nice piece of writing featured on the blog. The post is entitled The Convergence of Canals and Fish.

This particular essay features a nice mix of historical and personal. It is an enjoyable read and it is just the type of thing that I like [...]

Dream Stream: A Brautigan Inspired Piece

Anthony Naples — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:42:20 +0000

Well – reading Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan has inspired me (see review in previous post Here). The hard thing about any creative pursuit is the idea that you must press forward, onward into new territory. If you want to be taken seriously then you need to come up with something [...]