What Michael Copperman’s Fishing Lessons Reveal About Life Will Surprise You
I didn’t know then that if this was fishing, if this was living, then Uncle Bill wasn’t good at it—that he had nothing to teach me, no chance with my aunty. Instead, I spent years trying to be like him: plying all the wrong pools, nothing to take home but the ruin of what I touched.
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Michael Copperman is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures at Michigan State University. His memoir Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Award in CNF. He is the creative nonfiction editor for the Northwest Review.
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