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Dylan Tomine

author of Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession, and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman

Dylan Tomine is the author of two books published by Patagonia — Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family’s Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table (2012), and most recently, Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession, and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman (2022), winner of a National Outdoor Book Award. image credit:  Matthew DeLorme

About Dylan:
Dylan Tomine is a father, writer, conservation advocate and recovering sink tip addict, not necessarily in that order. He is the author of two books published by Patagonia — Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family’s Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table (2012), and most recently, Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession, and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman (2022), winner of a National Outdoor Book Award. He is also a producer of the feature-length documentary “Artifishal,” which has been watched by more than 3.5 million viewers. He lives in Bainbridge Island, Washington.

Resources:
Dylan Tomine
Artifishal
Damnation
Wild Fish Conservancy
Sustainable Blue

Dylan’s book recommendations:
Mink River (Brian Doyle)
The Plover (Brian Doyle)
Passage to Juneau (Jonathan Raban)
Winter in the Blood (James Welsh)
August (Callan Wink)

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EPISODE #100 - JOHN MCPHEE

on writing, teaching, exploring

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. After seven years at Time magazine, he moved to The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. A Fellow of the Geological Society of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was awarded in 1999 the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (Annals of the Former World).