About the Book
From editors David Joy and Eric Rickstad comesGather at the River, an anthology of twenty-five remarkable essays on fishing from an ensemble of contemporary authors. Their experiences explore the ways we come to water, for renewal and reverie, or to simply stand waist-deep in a river and watch the trout rise.
Gather at The Riveris more than a collection of big fish stories; it's Ron Rash writing about the Appalachia of his youth and C.J. Box revealing the river where he wants his ashes spread. It's Natalie Baszile on a frogging expedition in the Louisiana Bayou and a teenaged Jill McCorkle facing new realities of adulthood on Holden Beach, North Carolina. This is an anthology about friendship, family, love and loss, and everything in between, because as Henry David Thoreau wrote, "it is not really the fish they are after."
The contributors are an eclectic mix of critically acclaimed writers including New York Times Bestselling Authors Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, Leigh Ann Henion, Eric Rickstad, M.O. Walsh, and #1 Bestseller C.J. Box.
Some of the proceeds of every sale will benefit C.A.S.T. for Kids, public charity that joins volunteers who love to fish with children who have special needs and disadvantages for a day of fishing in the outdoors.
Table of Contents:
Introduction, by David Joy
Gould’s Inlet , Taylor Brown
Lullaby, J.C. Sasser
Fishing Lessons, Ron Rash
In Lightning Past, M.O. Walsh
Lobstering with Griff, Ingrid Thoft
The Mullet Girls, jill McCorkle
The Simple Angle(r), Erik Storey
Dream Fishing, Drew Lanham
Paducah ’80, J. Todd Scott
Some Crazy Sh*t, Frank Bill
A Dream of Trout, Eric Rickstad
For My Father, William Boyle
The Wooly Bugger Talk, Scott Gould
The Year of the Mackeral, Mark Powell
Frogging Quintana, Natalie Baszile
Truth or Consequences: The One That Didn’t Get Away, Michael Farris Smith
Bait, Chris Offutt
Shark Bait, Leigh Ann Henion
Fishing Lessons: An Essay in Two Acts, Gabino Iglesias
Past the Banks, Ray McManus
Sucker, Jim Minick
The Encampment: The Hotter, Younger Sister, C.J. Box
Temporal, Todd Davis
Some Thoughts on Marriage Before I Wed, Rebecca Gayle Howell
Memory of Water, Silas House
About the Author :
Eric Rickstad is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of the Canaan Crime Series novels, which includes THE NAMES OF DEAD GIRLS, THE SILENT GIRLS, and LIE IN WAIT. These dark, psychological page-turners, set in remote northern Vermont, are heralded as masterful, disturbing, profound and heartbreaking. Rickstad's first novel, REAP, was a New York Times Noteworthy Novel. His latest novel WHAT REMAINS OF HER will be published July 24, 2018.
Rickstad lives in Vermont with his wife, son, and daughter, and writes all his first drafts with a pencil in notebooks, often outside in the Vermont woods.
Review :
"Come for the fish stories, but stay for the writing—it sparkles like the flank of a mullet, thumps like the tail of a bull redfish, and leaps off the page like a tarpon." -—David DiBenedetto, Editor in Chief, Garden & Gun Magazine
"Novelists Joy (The Line That Held Us) and Rickstad (What Remains of Her) have pulled off the feat of assembling a fishing anthology that even non-anglers can enjoy, featuring essays from various writers that pay tribute to the beauty, peacefulness, and, sometimes, humor that accompany this pursuit." —Publishers Weekly
