An Unofficial 'The MeatEater Podcast' Reading List
Ep. 064: Bozeman. Steven Rinella talks with Kevin Murphy, the world's greatest small game hunter, along with Helen Cho, Brittany Brothers, Michelle Jorgensen, and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.
May 18, 2017
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Books Referenced
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Speaker discusses how their father read this book to them as children while camping, noting it was chosen because it was a fishing story rather than for its literary importance as a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Author: Wilson Rawls
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Speaker asks Kevin if he had read this book, in the context of discussing hunting-related children's literature.
Author: Conrad Richter
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Described as a book about a boy captured by Indians in Eastern settlements who is raised by them, then forced to return to settlements during a treaty, only to escape back to the Indians. Described as 'a solid book' for young adults.
Author: Fred Gipson
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Mentioned as part of discussion about the American literary canon being full of hunting stories and children's books about hunting.
Author: William Faulkner
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Kevin Murphy describes discovering this book of Faulkner's hunting stories by accident at a bookstore. He found it and thought it looked good, leading to his appreciation of Faulkner's hunting-related literature.
Author: William Faulkner
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Kevin mentions this was a Faulkner book they were made to read in high school or grade school, but it was not a hunting book.
Author: Mark Twain
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Mentioned in discussion about high-minded American literature featuring hunting and fishing, specifically noting Huck Finn as a great fisherman.
Author: Mark Twain
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Mentioned alongside Huckleberry Finn in the same discussion about American literary canon and hunting/fishing themes.
Author: Suzanne Collins
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Referenced as a positive depiction of hunting in literature, noting that the protagonist hunts deer and other food with archery.
Author: Larry Brown
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Mentioned as one of Larry Brown's novels that was made into a movie. Brown was a fireman in Oxford, Mississippi who became a novelist and was an avid squirrel hunter.
Author: Larry Brown
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Listed as another of Larry Brown's novels that was adapted for film.
Author: Larry Brown
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Mentioned as one of Larry Brown's works in the discussion of the novelist who was also an avid outdoorsman and squirrel hunter.