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Oct 30, 2025 — Even at 85, McGuane is wiry and strong, a hard man who has—by his own choice—lived a physically arduous life as a working rancher: breaking ...Read more
湯瑪斯‧麥圭恩──一位集漁夫、獵人、牧場主和作家於一身的奇才──或許是文學界戶外運動愛好者這群人中碩果僅存的一位。泰勒·奧斯汀·哈珀前往麥圭恩位於蒙大拿州偏遠小鎮麥克勞德的牧場拜訪了他，探討我們將失去什麼。 https://theatln.tc/cj7MV8Gl
麥圭恩著有十部小說，其中包括入圍美國國家圖書獎決賽並被改編成電影、彼得方達主演的《九十二度陰影》。這部小說講述了一位在基韋斯特從事海鰱釣魚的嚮導的故事，其靈感源於麥圭恩在那裡度過的時光。當時，基韋斯特是他的一群漁夫兼作家朋友——吉姆·哈里森、理查德·布勞提根和蓋伊·德·拉·瓦爾德內——的斷斷續續的居所。在那幾年裡，麥圭恩創作了他一些最著名的作品，並鞏固了他作為一位才華橫溢的釣魚者和作家的聲譽。
「現年85歲的麥圭恩身材精瘦結實，是個意志堅強的人，他自願選擇過著艱苦的牧場生活，」哈珀寫道。 「他自稱是‘隱士’，但他顯然並沒有把自己封閉在偏遠的麥克勞德的牧場裡。我走到哪裡……都會遇到認識他的人，他們都跟我分享了我的發現：他是多麼慷慨、風趣和善良。”
哈珀注意到，這位作家似乎並不特別在意自己的文化遺產。當被問及他對泰勒·謝裡丹的蒙大拿牧場肥皂劇《黃石》的看法時——這部電視劇顯然受到了麥圭恩西部小說的影響——他告訴哈珀，他還沒看過。
哈珀寫道，他「驚訝地發現像麥圭恩這樣的人越來越少了」。但當他問麥圭恩是否對美國文學文化中戶外運動愛好者的消失感到惋惜時，這位作家的回答簡潔明了：“不，而且消失得也好！”
「但或許——在我看來，這更有可能——這種謙遜也是一種防禦機制，」哈珀寫道，「一種應對文化轉變的方式，這種轉變對淺灘上獵鳥者纖細的身影、蒙大拿州偏遠地區鼠尾草的氣味、被子彈擊中後野雞蜷縮倒下的姿態，或者僅僅是一隻一隻冬天的赤狐熬過又一個冬天的赤狐都不太感興趣。」
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托馬斯·麥圭恩：“我對創意不感興趣”--這位小說家說：「我尋找的是作者的主觀脈動。」他讚揚哈姆生，同時又從納博科夫的作品中感受到「憤世嫉俗」。 《林間海岸》是他的第十八部作品。
Oct. 16, 2025
📸：帕特·馬丁
Thomas McGuane—a fisherman, hunter, rancher, and writer—may be the last of a dying breed of literary outdoorsmen. Tyler Austin Harper visited McGuane at his ranch in the remote town of McLeod, Montana, to examine what we stand to lose. https://theatln.tc/cj7MV8Gl
McGuane is the author of 10 novels, including “Ninety-two in the Shade,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into a movie starring Peter Fonda. The story of a tarpon guide in Key West, it was loosely inspired by the time McGuane spent there, when the city was an intermittent home to a circle of his fisherman-writer friends: Jim Harrison, Richard Brautigan, and Guy de la Valdène. In those years, McGuane wrote some of his most famous books and cemented his reputation as a gifted angler and author.
“Now at 85, McGuane is wiry and strong, a hard man who has—by his own choice—lived a physically arduous life as a working rancher,” Harper writes. “He describes himself as a ‘recluse,’ but he clearly doesn’t hole up on his property in remote McLeod. Everywhere I went … I ran into someone who knew him and conveyed what I was discovering: how generous, funny, and kind he is.”
The author seemed to harbor no special fixation on his cultural legacy, Harper notes. When asked what he thinks of Taylor Sheridan’s Montana-ranch soap opera, “Yellowstone,” a TV series quite obviously influenced by McGuane’s Western fiction, he told Harper that he hadn’t seen it.
Harper writes that he’s “struck by how rare men like McGuane are becoming.” But when he asked McGuane if he lamented the disappearance of outdoorsmen from American literary culture, the author’s response was succinct: “No, and good riddance!”
“But perhaps—and this seemed to me more likely—this modesty is also something of a defense mechanism,” Harper writes, “a way of coping with a transformed culture that is not much interested in the knife-thin silhouette of permit on a shallow flat, the smell of sagebrush in the Montana backcountry, the way a pheasant folds and falls when it’s been hit cleanly with shot, or simply a red fox that has survived another winter.”
: Pat MartinThomas McGuane | |
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.jpg) McGuane in 2018 | |
| Born | Thomas Francis McGuane III December 11, 1939 Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Education | University of Michigan Olivet College Michigan State University (BA) Yale School of Drama (MFA) |
| Genre | Fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting |
| Spouse | Portia Rebecca Crockett (m. 1962; div. 1975)Laura Buffett (m. 1977) |
| Children | 3 |
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