Dave Orrick's outdoors reading suggestions for the long winter ahead
If walleye are our meat, pike are our potatoes. Or stale bread, if it's a hammer handle. Or prime rib, if it's a monster. "Therein lies one of the most challenging contrasts for managing the fish: large pike are prized catches, whereas small pike are frequently regarded as trash fish," wrote Rod Pierce in "Northern Pike: Ecology, Conservation and Management History" ($40, University of Minnesota Press, 2012).Esox lucius is the second-most-sought-after game fish in Minnesota. Yet, when was the last time you read a book about northern pike? Or even a fishing report?
Art and Posthumanism: Cary Wolfe in conversation with Art after Nature series editors Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard.
Life in Plastic: Petrochemical fantasies and synthetic sensibilities, with Caren Irr, Lisa Swanstrom, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, and Daniel Worden.
Live: A book launch for We Are Meant to Rise at Next Chapter Booksellers features Carolyn Holbrook, David Mura, Douglas Kearney, Melissa Olson, Said Shaiye, and Kao Kalia Yang.