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Acclaimed sporting and adventure writer Charles Gaines has spent
much of his life on the water, around the world, fishing rod in
hand, angling for trout, redfish, salmon, bonefish, bass, marlin,
tuna, and practically everything else that swims. Just about any
place where there's water to fish and eccentrics to keep him
company, Gaines has been. The Next Valley Over, a collection of his
best writing on fishing from his long and storied career, is culled
from the pages of Men's Journal, Forbes, and Sports Afield, among
other publications, and ultimately is about the heart of the sport.
While his stories are lined with the accoutrement of angling--the
art of technique, the equipment, the lodges, the fish
themselves--they're really about why we love to fish and what it
means to our culture. As Thoreau once said: "Many men go fishing
all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are
after." What "they are after" is what Charles is curious about, and
he has devoted the better part of his life and sanity to coming up
with answers. Starting and ending at the majestic Lake Tadpole in
St. Clair County, Alabama, where Gaines's love of fishing was
initially sparked, the Next Valley Over chronicles exploits in
exotic locations with eccentric characters. In the process of his
quest of nearly every species known to man, Gaines explores what we
are really searching for when we fish.
Chosen from the 2012 National Magazine Awards finalists and
winners, this anthology is filled with compelling features and
profiles, eye-opening reporting, and incisive criticism and
analysis of contemporary culture and society. Written by today's
leading journalists, the selections cover a range of developments
in politics, international affairs, culture, and business -- from
the increasingly short shelf lives of celebrity marriages to the
ongoing fallout from Wall Street's financial malpractice, from the
insidious effects of the lingering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to
the resurgent battle over issues pertaining to women's safety and
health. Always engaging and informative, "Best American Magazine
Writing 2012" is an incomparable resource for the most noteworthy
journalism and literary achievements of the year.
Essays include Lawrence Wright ( "The New Yorker") on the
history of Scientology and recent challenges to its mission and
methods; Matthieu Aikins ( "The Atlantic") on the shady dealings
and shifting sands of the war in Afghanistan; the late Christopher
Hitchens ( "Vanity Fair") on the physical and emotional toll of
cancer; and Joel Stein ( "Time") on the propensity for politicians
and other popular figures to get into trouble on the Internet. John
Jeremiah Sullivan ( "GQ") immerses himself in David Foster
Wallace's curious legacy; Tim Crothers ( "ESPN") follows the
inspiring story of Phiona Mutesi, a chess prodigy from the slums of
Uganda; Chris Ballard ( "Sports Illustrated") recounts Dewayne
Dedmon's struggle to reconcile his faith with a career in sports;
Wesley Yang ( "New York") explores the pressure on Asian Americans
to succeed and the psychological and cultural consequences when
they don't; and Luke Dittrich ( "Esquire") shares the raw
experiences of those who survived one of 2011's worst natural
disasters: the tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri. The sparkling
dialogue and vividly imagined, eccentric characters of Karen
Russell's award-winning short story, "The Hox River Window" (
"Zoetrope: All-Story"), rounds out the collection.
"Wyoming" ("The Lost Poems") is a run of poems written and put away
in the 1970s. It is the work of a writer who began as a student of
poetry but who became a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.
None of the poems have been published previously or submitted
anywhere for publication.
It is a collection of exploding imagination and acute observation.
Love, sex, betrayal, redemption . . . tossed like dice on uniquely
American landscapes. With the first poem you wonder where Terry
McDonell has been; by the last you are shocked by his answers.
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