"Noodling for Flatheads

Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts "

By: Burkhard Bilger

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Paperback | 1 May 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Burkhard Bilger vividly captures a world that lies outside the familiar images of life in the United States in the twenty-first century in eight superbly crafted essays about little-known corners of the South. It is a world in which grown men catch catfish with their bare hands, crowds of people cheer on chickens as they fight to the death, and a woman moves into a trailer home when her house burns down just so she can continue hunting 350 nights a year. Bilger records the eccentric and sometimes downright bizarre behavior he encounters with humor and wit but nary a whisper of mockery. In essays that combine history, anecdotes, and personal observations, he describes each activity, its origins, its dangers, and its pleasures. But Noodling for Flatheads is much more than a survey of unlikely pastimes. Through lively portraits of the participants, Bilger illuminates the obsessive individualism that is at the heart of the American spirit.

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Newsweek Meticulous reporting and graceful writing -- with zero condescension.
Caroline Fraser Outside A fascinating look into rural America's intimate, uneasy relationship with the animal life that surrounds it -- both wild and domesticated.
E. Andra Whitworth The New York Times Book Review A rare and sometimes surprising glimpse of the American backwoods... Bilger's folksy descriptions of these eccentric pursuits are charming.
Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post Smart, clear-eyed, witty, and unsentimental, not to mention quite agreeably surprising.
Ted Lee The New York Times A collection of powerful essays...[Bilger's] lyrical narratives thrum with energy and affection.

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Introduction	p. 11
Noodling for Flatheads: In Which a Fish Nearly Eats The Author's Arm	p. 15
Enter the Chicken: In Which a Sport Beloved by Washington and Lincoln is Declared Un-American	p. 29
Moonshine Sonata: In Which the Age of the Microbrewery Meets the Modern Police State, With Intoxicating Results	p. 63
Mad Squirrels and Kentuckians: In Which Neither Changing Custom, Nor Public Opprobrium, Nor Learned Medical Opinion can Dissuade Some People From Eating A Small Rodent's Brain	p. 101
The Mall of the Wild: In Which a Georgia Man, Dreaming of the Ultimate Game Farm, Calls Forth A Plague of Frogs	p. 133
Send in the Hounds: In Which Dogs Chase Raccoons, Hunters Chase Dogs, the Author Chases Hunters, and no one Knows Exactly Why	p. 157
Low on the Hog: In Which a Cook's Soul is Tested by a Plate of Steaming Intestines	p. 181
The Rolley Holers: In Which a Few Good Men, Armed Only With Their Thumbs, Crush the British and Make the French Cry	p. 205
Acknowledgments	p. 249
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