"River Songs" with Steve Duda
Event Details
- When
- Nov 14, 2024 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
- Where
- Hotel Leo Crystal Ballroom, Bellingham
- Add it to your calendar
-
vCal
iCal
A Nature of Writing speaker series event, presented in partnership with Village Books
River Songs is rich with bracing, authentic, generous stories – writing that revels in language and spirit. Avoiding most of fly fishing’s clichés – the romantic elegies, the Moby-Dick-like conquests, the play-by-play detailing a "victory" over a fish – Steve Duda instead offers pieces that breathe lived experience, reveal vulnerabilities, and convey a broad perspective of what it means to have "a long run with a tight crew." Duda is interested in what has been learned out there on the river: what is it about this "ridiculous activity" that connects us to this planet, makes us human, gives us hope? River Songs focuses on the in-between moments and the unexpected revelations – awe, fear, frustration, doubt, joy – that are as much a part of fishing as tying knots and chucking flies. Readers ride along with Duda in battered pickup trucks, fish "between jobs," look longingly at unfished famous rivers while touring with a country-punk band, and wonder how a fishing trip led to getting a tooth pulled while being surrounded by trash-talking friends. They will find beauty, discovery, heartbreak, good dogs, and the wonder of nature within the expanse of Northwest landscapes and beyond.