Casting Quiet Waters

Casting Quiet Waters is a major collection of reflections on the human condition through the lens of fishing.

In this volume of essays by some of North America’s most respected literary writers, each author takes us on a fishing trip that provides an opportunity to explore issues of the human condition. The writer and the angler both toss lines, chase shadows, and spend countless hours pondering what might have been. In life, as in fishing, the trophy always gets away. But the writer at least brings home a story.

Authors include:

•David Adams Richards •Wayne Curtis •Tom McGuane •Charles Gaines •David Carpenter •Ian Pearson •Kenneth Kidd •Jake MacDonald •Marni Jackson •Annie Proulx •Charles Wilkins •Ian Frazier

Jake MacDonald is the author of Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in the Shield Country, as well as numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. He is also an awardwinning journalist whose work has appeared in Canadian Geographic, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, and many other publications.