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Mark Spitzer
The Crabby Old Gar was really really mad, but he tried not to be such a bummer. Then he found what he needed and chilled out.
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After the Octopus is the action-packed, stand-on-its-own, laugh-riot sequel to After the Orange Glow. It’s also the final installment in Mark Spitzer’s four-part series about living the life of an…
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An investigation into the bioethics of fish pain and suffering leads to a lifestyle-changing discovery for monster-fisher Mark Spitzer.Monster Fishing the World and Back is a bestiary of gar…
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Fisherman Mark Spitzer takes readers on an action-packed investigation of the most fierce and fearsome freshwater grotesques of the American West. Through the lenses of history, folklore, biology, ecology, and…
Investigative Creative Writing is Mark Spitzer’s lively and original treatment of creative writing practice and teaching within a college/university environment.
Offers an action-packed, knee-slapping ride into and out of the belly of the beast. Join extreme angler Mark Spitzer as he encounters man-eating catfish, ruthless barracuda, lacerating conger eels, berserk…
A sequel to the author’s Seasons of the gar (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2010).
Lets you follow the author on his quest from Texas and Louisiana, Missouri, and Arkansas to catch his own gar. This title describes his sometimes bizarre angling adventures in search…
Mark Spitzer lived a life of monstrous passion, continuous inspiration, and constant fascination; but at 57 years, it wasn't long enough. He published nearly forty books: most about fish and…
Cryptozarkia is a bestiary of freaky Ozark hybrids whose cast includes hoop snakes, wampus cats, man-eating gator gars, bogus Ozark howlers, the mythical blue humans of Blowing Cave lore, the…