The Fish's Eye
by Ian Frazier
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002. 164 pgs.
Ian Frazier always writes well, but when he's writing short essays, few people can touch him. His previous collections of essays gathered humor pieces; this book collects slightly more serious fare, mostly about fishing. It's not just for anglers, either. If his Whitmanian lists of obscure flies don't excite you, his accounts of fishing before dawn in New York City's East River and feasting on mayflies in Montana will.
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