“Psycho Drain Flies”
What we might learn from critters living in campus urinals. Read the essay from Edge Effects here.
“Florida’s Slippery Dicks”
An essay on transgender fish & family published in The Hopper. Read this essay here.
Short Story about Sex & Seafood on the Oregon Coast
Read the short story in the Seattle Star here
Angler’s Journal Feature on Artist, Paul Gentry
Salmon Rising is one of a dozen images Gentry engraved and printed for two collections of angling literature that I edited for Knopf’s Everyman’s Library series. His work as a furniture maker, potter, photographer and painter have earned him local attention, and his wood engravings are national treasures. Several universities and institutions, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the Library of Congress, hold his artwork; Montana State University recently commissioned a set of prints for its famous Trout and Salmonid Collection.
Read Henry’s full article here in the Angler’s Journal
Rocky and Rose
A short story by Henry Hughes in Harvard Review.
“Rocky started his cannery shift at eight in the evening and finished at three in the morning, then went straight to the river, swinging big streamers with glow-in-the-dark heads, which some fly fishermen considered cheating. Those same men would start their mornings watching Rocky boot across the pasture carrying a couple of steelhead or a spring Chinook. He walked quickly to his truck, slowing down only if his heart raced…”
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Montana State University Library Trout & Salmonid Lecture 2019
Exploring literature, art, and popular culture, writer and professor Henry Hughes discusses the delightfully slippery world at the confluence of piscine and human existence
in his presentation, “The Sensual Fish,” delivered on April 2, 2019, at the Rialto in downtown Bozeman, Montana. Through fishing, Hughes crosses boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and class, making connections between the salty pleasures and tensions of human and fish life. According to events coordinator, Ann Vinciguerra, “Henry Hughes’ fascinating and humorous discussion delighted a full house at the Rialto.” Each year, the Montana State University Trout and Salmonid Lecture Series hosts a world-renowned speaker and offers a free lecture to the university and Bozeman communities.
Review of John Larison’s novel, Whiskey When We’re Dry in Harvard Review
“John Larison’s Whiskey When We’re Dry has all the classic elements of a Western saga: endlessly promising yet punishing land, tobacco and booze, corrupt lawmen and kindly prostitutes, good guys and bad guys with guns blazing. But it’s the particular story of our hero, Jesse, and her gender fluidity that makes this a truly excellent book.”
Read Henry’s review in the Harvard Review Online
Review of Tracy Smith’s collection of poetry, Wade in the Water in Harvard Review
Tracy K. Smith’s fourth book of poetry ends with “An Old Story” of terrible times. Echoing Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” Smith bemoans a ravaged land and rising hate—the “worst in us having taken over / And broken the rest utterly down.”
Read Henry’s review in the Harvard Review Online
Review of Charles Bukowski: On Drinking in New York Journal of Books
“Bukowski tells us: ‘Drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day.’”
Read Henry’s review in the New York Journal of Books.