Tom McGuane with Richard Powers: the Long and Short of It | 3-6-2018 | LIVE from the NYPL

[@kaitlinmeadows6273]

The great, sensitive, deep, funny, keenly observant minds of two of our most profound literary masters! What a beautiful experience to share this magic brew!

[@SuperOlds88]

I tried reading The Sporting Club and threw it away about a third of the way through it. Why I tried reading it I have no idea, I despise fiction. Anything that Mr. McGuane has written in the non-fiction form is some of my favorite reading and I re-read them often. I have done some of the types of fishing and hunting that he has done so I feel a lot of emotion reading his stories. I grew up in Michigan so I can get a sense of his time there too, then I moved west. I am sure glad he changed his writing for the better in my opinion. I wish he had 10 or 15 more books to read.

Thank you New York Public Library! This was truly a wonderful conversation with Richard and Tom. I totally enjoyed it!

[@maryforster1417]

This interview was awesome! I want to tell everyone I know to watch it, but I know most won't...they don't know what they are missing. Such intelligence and generosity ....from both Richard Powers and Thomas McGuane...I loved this interview!

[@mr59301]

The telling of that Kissimee joke, alone, was worth the 90 minutes of attention but his observations on the mind of a good cutting horse are what leave me smiling as he leaves the room. What an extraordinary life and mind to witness at work and play.

[@skyj5529]

It was the cutting horse talk, remarks about Jim Harrison's poetry, McGuane's quiet and humility, and Powers' respect for him that held me rapt.

[@sclogse1]

"The mistaken belief that we're put here alone and everything else is just a resource."

[@erniereyes1994]

Thomas McGuane is one of my all time favorite story writers, up there with Hemingway and Denis Johnson.

[@michaelkeith2207]

I want to be Tom Mcguane.

[@Immarkyo58]

I told him that once in an interview and he told me he'd wanted to do what I did, which was work as a fish biologist. "Maybe we can trade?" he said. I said he had the better of the two choices.

[@ToryDart1066]

Where have I been all his life? Jeeze Louise

[@yusefasabiyah495]

Trowel a bat becave, through a solemn