Issue 58 - Fishing Fiction
I got into a wrangle with another writer over an extended riff on fishing that I thought was off the subject of his novel.
He pointed out that ‘subject of the novel’ was an asinine idea; novels don’t have ‘subjects’ but fields of interest. Okay,
fishing didn’t fall into his novel’s fields of interest, I contended. He said that if it was his novel, anything that interested
him belonged. Or, as Andy Warhol said about art, it’s ‘whatever you can get away with’. I sputtered an obscenity; he insisted that if he loved fishing, fishing fit; he won the argument by leaving.
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