My more fanatic readers might know that, years ago, I published several articles in The Atlantic, most importantly a cut from Eagle Dreams that was later selected for Best American Travel Writing of 2002. Shortly thereafter, the magazine was sold to new owners, and I received a correct but cool letter informing me that my …
Month: July 2011
Grooms’ Gun: Mostly a Guest Post
Steve Grooms, the man who wrote the book on pheasants, is reluctantly giving up his gun.He writes: “It is an “Ithaca” Model 600 made by SKB and imported by Ithacagun around 1976. I’m the only owner. “12 gauge with 2 3/4″ chambers, 26” barrels bored improved cylinder and modified. The barrels (at least on the …
George Kimball, 1943- 2011, RIP
Tom Russell emailed to say that George Kimball, our greatest boxing writer and a damn brave fighter himself, died the night before last after a seven year battle with cancer, during which time he wrote or edited five books. I most recently linked to his website and books in this post here (scroll down). Like …
Tidbit
Hawk is learning fast. He actually JUMPED to me after this pic– with his weight completely un- reduced! Has anyone any name ideas? Somehow it has always been difficult for me to name birds…
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Bizarro.
The provincialism of sophisticates
I was reading an article in Slightly Foxed, an excellent English quarterly devoted to neglected writing, and I came upon this quote from Marghanita Laski’s 1949 Little Boy Lost that both amused and chilled me because it is still so true: “To him it was inconceivable that an intelligent man should be happy to live …
New Bird
My first Harris, from Matt Mitchell. Something of a revelation as despite the fact he never saw a dog or a human other than Matt until he arrived here 40 minutes from his natal chamber, he is calm and considered. Intelligent bird! And I hope my “shotgun hawk”, like my light 20 enabling my continuing …
Money, Writing For…
What is it Dr Johnson said? Tom McIntyre wrote this week, in a note: “Money, money, money, yes. It may not be able to buy you happiness but poverty sure as hell can’t either. I would just like to have the time (which means the money) to write only what I want, not what I …
Q o’ D
“The plural of anecdote is not data.” (Patrick Sweeney in G & A, attributing it to an engineering prof, though it is everywhere applicable…)