When I turned 4, my father and my uncle, both teachers, began taking me brook-trout fishing in the stream behind our home in the Catskill Mountains. Brook-trout fishing was a nearly sacrosanct tradition in our family. So was reading. In particular, my dad and my uncle loved Hemingway’s early stories, Faulkner’s novels and Frost’s poems.

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