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It always made me very suspicious that no one from Yoknapatawpha ever went to Miami.

You could see it was our little darling.

I don’t always understand what’s going on in the fishing essays but I still like them

McGuane expands outward from talking about fly fishing into such uncharted territory as the lineage and fandom of cutting-horses to the search for his prized sail, the Meadow Lark. While his topics in these stories span outward, his tone and focus span ever inward into man's motivation for sport, his humorous wrestling with his own inequities, and inevitably his finding of his own True Self in "the game".

Just finished "Tarpon Hunting" and am about to begin "Molly". He's a great writer on hunting, fishing, motorcycles. You know. Guy stuff. Along the way he reveals his weaknesses and doubts about his own manhood which is really the best part of it.