“Today we take a look at the prose styles of two titans of the game: Tom McGuane and Jim Harrison.  As people, they have a lot in common.  Both originally hail from Michigan, both are novelists of the very first order, and both did stints as Hollywood screenwriters.  And they’ve fished together enough to appear in each others’ writing.  But when we put their prose under a microscope and examine the ways they use language to make meaning, striking differences start to appear.  Let’s first take a look at Harrison’s 'Night Games,' a short essay that originally appeared in Esquire magazine.” — Read on...