Backcast
Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska by Lou Ureneck
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Lou Ureneck, a College of Communication professor and chairman of thedepartment of journalism, reads from his award-winning book Backcast; Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska. Hediscusses the influence of his own childhood on his marriage and hisparenting, and his realization of what it means to be a father. Hisbook chronicles a fly-fishing trip he took with his teenage son whentheir family foundation was shaken because of a difficult divorce. Hepairs the physical trials of a fly-fishing trip in the Alaskan outbackwith the emotional confrontations between father and son. The book wasawarded the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award in the Outdoor Literaturecategory.
October 3, 2007, 7 p.m.
Barnes and Noble at Boston University
About the speaker:
Lou Ureneck, the chairman of the journalism department at the College of Communication, was the deputy managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, in charge of the front page and the nightly news operation. Before joining the Inquirer, he was the editor and vice president of the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, which became one of the country’s best medium-size newspapers under his leadership. He was an editor-in residence at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard Universitywhile pursuing a comparative study of the methods of historians and thepractices of journalists. His study of newspaper economics for theNieman Foundation is titled The Business of News.
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