Ep. 432: Hit 'Em Where They Ain't with Ian Frazier

Published: 2023-04-17 09:00:00

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Steve Rinella talks with Ian Frazier, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Frazier's bajillion books and articles in The New Yorker; the Lakota word, ichipasisi; Steve's piece about fishing in the turbine, which led to his big break; the "weights in fish" guys plead guilty; a correction on a correction about Dale Hollow Lake; rewards for turning in bands and the million dollar phesant; a note to the hater; how many pythons are really out there; circumpolar distribution; globigerina ooze; Steelhead Joe; the Chukchi hunters; seal liver with angel hair pasta; not wanting to live near other writers; hog distribution maps overlaid with voting maps; the Bronx; the in between-ness of a place; steamboat explosions; and more.

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Referenced Books

Great Planes

by Ian Frazier

Steve mentions this as arguably at the top of his list of favorite books of all time. It's a book about the American Great Plains by guest Ian Fraser.

Referenced at 00:00:51

Travels in Siberia

by Ian Frazier

Steve describes this as a great book by Ian Fraser that culminates in a spirited argument about Stalin jokes not being okay.

Referenced at 00:01:51

On the Rez

by Ian Frazier

Described as a phenomenal history of the Pine Ridge Reservation, the wars against the Sioux, confinement to reservation, and what happened on the reservation.

Referenced at 00:03:03

by Bo Schembechler

Ian Fraser mentions this book by Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler bumped his book 'Great Planes' off the New York Times bestseller list.

Referenced at 00:04:14

The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas

by Jerry Dennis

Steve mentions a book by Jerry Dennis about the Great Lakes involving someone buying a boat and sailing through the Great Lakes, which took the wind out of Steve's sails for his own Great Lakes project.

Referenced at 00:08:09

Night of the Grizzlies

by Jack Olsen

Referenced in discussion about bear attacks in Glacier National Park, where two bears killed two women on the same night. Steve asks if Fraser read this book.

Referenced at 01:22:22

Coyote v. Acme

by Ian Frazier

A book by Ian Fraser in which he laid out the legal case that Wile E. Coyote would have against Acme for product malfeasance.

Referenced at 00:30:14

Ninety-Two in the Shade

by Thomas McGuane

Ian Fraser asks if Steve ever read this book, describing it as 'a really good book about guiding' that's 'kind of almost a melodrama in a way, but it's a wonderful book.'

Referenced at 00:40:46

Siberia and the Prison Exile System

by George Kennan

Ian Fraser discusses this book from the 1880s by George Kennan from Norwalk, Ohio, who went to Siberia to see how exiled people were doing. This book inspired Anton Chekhov to make his own trip.

Referenced at 01:18:31

Steamboat Disasters on the Western Waters

by James Lloyd

Ian Fraser mentions this 1857 book with woodcuts of steamboat explosions. He describes it as 'unintentionally funny' with illustrations of various steamboat disasters.

Referenced at 01:59:35

The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

by Ian Frazier

Ian Fraser mentions this as his one novel, about a character called the Cursing Mommy who starts out making chili and everything goes wrong while she's cursing.

Referenced at 02:07:08

The Fish's Eye

by Ian Frazier

Ian Fraser describes this as a book exclusively about fishing, compiled from different pieces he did over many years, mostly about fly fishing.

Referenced at 01:47:37

Give a Boy a Gun

by Todd Strasser

Corrected during the podcast - this is an epistolary tale for young adults by Todd Strasser, first published in the 2000s. Initially confused with a book about Claude Dallas.

Referenced at 02:04:03