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McGuane mentions that his friend Richard Brautigan's daughter sent him a new edition with Billy Collins' introduction. Later discussed as a book that people read while fishing even though 'it doesn't really have anything to do with trout fishing.'

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McGuane describes this as an 'unbelievable book' by an English writer who was the dance critic of The Observer, calling it 'a stunning book about fishing' that interweaves fishing with serious life events including war trauma and IRA violence.

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McGuane describes recently getting this book about a fishing fanatic in Sweden during the period of Swedish utopian society, using fishing as a lens to observe social changes in Scandinavia.

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McGuane uses this as an example of how literature uniquely captures the atmosphere of a time period, saying 'You're never going to get the feeling for the twenties that you're gonna get from reading the Great Gatsby.'

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McGuane references this as 'a great book by Lewis Hyde that's just being reviewed right now about the art of forgetting,' discussing how one can't be chained by the past.