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“Ever make a mistake?” Bina asks the boundary maven. “Tell someone he can carry where he’s not allowed to carry? Draw a line where no line needs to be drawn?”
Michael Chabon • The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Watching the Bananas is like attending a carnival that happens to break out into a baseball game.
Jesse Cole • Find Your Yellow Tux: How to Be Successful by Standing Out
he was a symbol of America’s openness to foreigners. Others saw him as a business opportunity. A way out. A glimmer of hope. For me, he was the realization of an old dream, a kind of surrogate for a life that I and all the other basketball players I knew were never able to live.
Thomas Pletzinger • The Great Nowitzki: Basketball and the Meaning of Life
Markson in November. “It looks good in there.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
One day you’re a chirpy, hot-shot teenager with a thunderclap serve, who wears a baseball cap on a tennis court before that becomes a thing, and then one day you’re not good enough anymore, because inevitably nobody is. In between, you go to the top of a sport that doesn’t love chirpy te... See more
Andy Roddick, the U.S. Open’s last American male champion, sees himself a tennis schlub
By far the best account of Benny Leonard, both of his mystique and of his fighting style, I discovered, is by Budd Schulberg in one of his collections of boxing pieces. Schulberg, to my mind, may be the most underrated of all American authors, the author of the best firsthand account of F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel The Disenchanted, and the in
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