Gather at the River: Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing

From editors David Joy and Eric Rickstad comes Gather 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 River is 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.

ISBN-13: 9781938235528

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Hub City Press

Publication Date: 05-14-2019

Pages: 216

Product Dimensions: 6.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

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. David Joy is the author of the Edgar nominated novel Where All Light Tends to Go, as well as the novels The Weight Of This World and The Line That Held Us. He is also the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey, which was a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award. Joy is the recipient of an artist fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. His latest short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Garden & Gun, and The Bitter Southerner. Joy lives in the North Carolina mountains.

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