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"A River Runs Through It" (1992) Trailer

nerdsknow wrote 2 weeks ago: Directed by Robert Redford starring Bradd Pitt based on the semi-autobiographical novella A River Ru … more →

Tags: film, Outdoor, A River Runs Through It, Robert Redford, bradd pitt

Farewell Mr. Cooley/Jungle Cruise Funnies2 comments

Brad Nixon wrote 3 weeks ago: A followup to the Nov. 5 “Young Men and Fire” post In the November 5 entry, I wrote abou … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Writing, California, Young Men And Fire, Disneyland, Earl Cooley, npr, "All Things Considered", Disneyland Jungle Cruise

Young Men and Fire1 comment

Brad Nixon wrote 1 month ago: On our vacation last week, we were poking around in a used-book shop and I came across a copy of Nor … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Writing, Young Men And Fire, A River Runs Through It

Why does everyone look so glum at the Royal National Mod?

Iain wrote 1 month ago: OUR autumn holiday would be at the Mod. The family would have a great time going round the attractio … more →

Tags: Gaelic, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Popular Culture, Scotland, Stornoway, TV, Western Isles, Donnie Large

River Dancing

leahjorgensen wrote 4 months ago: Many women like myself fell hard for Brad Pitt in the poignant film, A River Runs Through It.  There … more →

Tags: writing, A River Runs Through It, Montaña, Annie Proulx, Rivers, Metolius River, camp sherman, deschutes national forest, Fly Fishing

Short Stories Worth Reading1 comment

fsowalla wrote 5 months ago: If you don’t go back far enough you tend to think your ideas are somehow original.  I have to … more →

Tags: Reading, Beauty, Short Story

Book Review: A River Runs through it

avocadomisfit wrote 6 months ago: Just finished reading Norman Maclean’s, A River Runs through it. Beautifully written. Maclean, … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Short Stories, Fly Fishing, Fishing, A River Runs Through It

Things are funny, but not very humerous

ctimbel wrote 9 months ago: [Clinton, TN 1956] Norman Maclean wrote: “Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who come … more →

Tags: Things I like, Photography, Musing, Music, Fishing

A River Runs Through it on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

snouhow wrote 9 months ago: A river of knowing runs through him. He is drenched with discernment. Beloved. Son. This is what he … more →

Tags: A River Runs Through It, Craig Sheffer, brad pitt movies, rav wilding, Sean Connery

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

munlit wrote 11 months ago: Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of “A River Runs through It” that he is “ … more →

Tags: A River Runs Through It, Emily Lloyd, Craig Sheffer, Mahatma Gandhi, jim varney

Pleasure Cruise

ducksanddrakes wrote 1 year ago: It’s a scandal!: “into our fallen world the Gods of Great Events have finally come down … more →

Tags: found phrases, language, Audiences Made Pleasurable by Their Smallness, Cliches, Cliches About Cliches, Franz Kafka, Glory, Jeff Sypeck, Michael Wood

Maclean=Magic1 comment

Weston Cutter wrote 1 year ago:                 Norman Maclean might’ve written the most heroically pretty sentences in Englis … more →

Tags: nonfiction, A River Runs Through It, Young Men And Fire, University of Chicago, Rick Bass, John McPhee, Marilynne Robinson, O. Alan Weltzien

Please Sign Here, 2.0

PauvrePlume wrote 1 year ago: In case these famous signatures were insufficient for you, I offer you another collection of literar … more →

Tags: Manuscripts, French, vintage, Handwriting, Literature, SIGNATURE, autograph, Authors, Writers

A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

hhotmart wrote 1 year ago: Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of “A River Runs through It” that he is “ … more →

Tags: University of Chicago Press, A River Runs Through It, brad pitt movies, bay ve bayan smith, Eric Bana, Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie

Fishing :: A Saturday Meditation

Ben Simpson wrote 1 year ago: Something within fishermen tries to make fishing into a world perfect and apart–I don’t know w … more →

Tags: Theology, Church Ministry, Christianity, Discipleship, God, Evangelism, Jesus Christ, Gospel, Fishing

The Whistling Season4 comments

chartroose wrote 1 year ago:   Ivan Doig, 2006, 345 p. The Whistling Season is a kinder, gentler novel free of our current social … more →

Tags: Newer Reviews, Mark Twain, Ivan Doig, the whistling season, little house on the prairie, Stuart Little, Wallace Stegner, Halley's Comet, one-room schoolhouse

Photo Final

sgowan713 wrote 1 year ago: … more →

Tags: Fishing, Literature, A River Runs Through It, Digital Photography, Fly Fishing

The Blackfoot, the Clark Fork, and the Bitterroot.

hstreets wrote 1 year ago: Photo of the Blackfoot River by Bitterroot used under a Creative Commons license. Norman Maclean, A … more →

Tags: Fiction, Montaña, Missoula, A River Runs Through It

The Religion of Fly Fishing

gjhaze wrote 1 year ago: “Fly fishing is a setting where God can teach us a lot about ourselves,” he says. That observation c … more →

Tags: Fishing, Fly Fishing, Fish, Religion, Salvation, Norman McLean, Bob Clouser, Kevin Howell, davidson river


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