A Matter of Style: Fly Fishing into the Winds of Change

Leaving behind a job as a public school teacher, acclaimed writer Scott Sadil (rhymes with cradle) began building Tamalita, a lug-rigged beach yawl suitable for exploring the remote tidewaters of Baja California’s Magdalena Bay. Before he could finish planking his new boat, however, Sadil received an email from Gray’s Sporting Journal, for the past fifty years America’s preeminent hunting and fishing magazine. Gray’s needed a writer of Sadil’s stature to take over the duties of their angling editor. Would he be interested in applying for the job?

A Matter of Style brings together Sadil’s columns and feature stories written over his first half decade with Gray’s. The author of six previous books, including fiction and nonfiction, Sadil has received wide-reaching praise as both a stylist and humorist, a literary writer whose essays and short stories have been compared favorably with the works of Thomas McGuane, Ted Leeson, Charley Waterman, and other writers of traditional and contemporary outdoor literature. 6x9 inches, 174 pgs.