This morning we had the great pleasure of having Dennis Minsky back in the studio to talk about books. Our topic was books about fish and fishing. Our apologies that the show could not be live this month, due to my schedule, but please leave us a comment with any fish book you love that you would like us to add to the list. If you missed the show, you can listen online via WCAI!
Mindy’s Pick
I’ve Never Met an Idiot on the River: reflections of family, photography, and fly-fishing by Henry Winkler
Dennis’s Picks
Fishing Around Nantucket by J. Clinton Andrews
The Hungry Ocean: a swordboat captain’s journey by Linda Greenlaw
Four Fish: the future of the last wild food by Paul Greenberg
The Run by John Hay
The Most Important Fish in the Sea: menhaden and America by H. Bruce Franklin
The Provincetown Seafood Cookbook by Howard Mitcham
American Seafood: heritage, culture & cookery from sea to shining sea by Barton Seaver
Consider the Eel by Richard Schweid
The Founding Fish by John McPhee
Jill’s Picks
“The Fish” by Mary Oliver in New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
The Shining Tides by Win Brooks
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton
My Moby Dick by William Humphrey
A Jerk on One End: reflections of a mediocre fisherman by Robert Hughes
Blues by John Hersey
Listener Picks
Even though we weren’t live for the fishing show, we got lots of books suggestions after the show! Here’s the list …
The Finest Kind : the fishermen of Gloucester by Kim Bartlett
Vermont River by WD Wetherell
Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world by Mark Kurlansky
Beautiful Swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay by William Warner
The River Why by David James Duncan
The Longest Silence: a life in fishing by Thomas McGuane
Reading the Water: adventures in surf fishing on Martha’s Vineyard by Bob Post
Men’s Lives: the surfman and baymen of the South Fork by Peter Matthiessen