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Skinheads, Drunks, And London Soccer In The Early '70s
Forty years after its publication, The Glory Game, Hunter Davies's behind-the-scenes classic about a season with Tottenham Hotspur, reads in a lot of ways like a supreme work of access journalism, one willing to betray the secrets everyone already knows in order to protect the real ones. So players ...
John O'Hara Told The Truth About His Time
My father didn't care much for Fitzgerald or Hemingway or Faulkner. He loved Steinbeck. But the writer he told me to read was John O'Hara. I still have the copy of O'Hara's short stories that Dad gave me when I was in high school. ...
I Can't Stop Reading This Book About Cricket And Colonialism
It's a lovely late summer weekend. You should go buy this book about cricket, a sport you almost certainly don't care about, and take it the park or the beach and read it. You'll be happy you did....
What's The Rumpus?
Kudos to Rolling Stone for reprinting Jonathan Cott’s 1976 profile of Maurice Sendak:...
92nd Street Y Interview with Dutch Leonard
Cause we can't get enough Dutch Leonard round these parts here's a treat: a long 1998 interview at the 92nd Street Y. ...
The Books We've Lost
Over at the New York Review of Books, here's Charles Simic on the books we've lost:...
Thinking of Elmore
Elmore Leonard, 87, had a stroke earlier this week. "He's doing better every day, and the family is guardedly optimistic," said Gregg Sutter, Leonard's longtime researcher. ...
In The Boom Boom Room
Dip over to Salon and dig the most gifted Jennifer Egan:...
To Steal A Mockingbird?
Ugliness in the literary world. This one involves Harper Lee. Mark Seal has the sordid details in a story for Vanity Fair:...
Darkness On The Edge Of Town: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Here's Flannery O'Connor reading her story "A Good Man is Hard to Find."...
The Movie Love Bookshelf
Here’s a good read for the movie nerd in your life. Thomson is a lot of fun to read even when you don’t agree with him....
Former MTV VJ Says Michael Jordan Tried To Win Her Virginity At Dice
The best thing about all the "MJ is a shit" stories is that, knowing what we know about him, every single one is plausible. There's not a tale that could make you sit up and say, "No way, Jordan couldn't have been that much of a jackass." Today's is a good one....
Phil Jackson Finally Compares Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
Phil Jackson had the savvy and good fortune to coach two of the greatest players the NBA has ever known—both 2-guards, both brilliant sociopaths. But for the first time, Jackson writes about how the two measure up against each other....
How To Watch Football On Television, According To 1964
Spend enough time on sports boards and you start to absorb a multimedia shorthand. Someone asks why Raul Ibañez is a defensive liability, and you automatically post an animated gif of his laser-like throw from the outfield right into the dirt eight feet in front of him. Someone wonders why people di...
Gift Guide Roundup: Last-Minute Gifts For People Who Read
We asked you, our scholarly readers, to let us know what books would make for great Christmas gifts. We had some suggestions of our own, too. Here's what to buy for the bookworm in your life—there's still time!...
All The Mystery Of Kobe Bryant, In One Photo
From Kobe's Facebook page: "Still not feeling well, it's a day in bed for me. Nothing like a good book to take my mind of last night's tough loss. I'm lovin this one!" The book is, per Amazon, a funny memoir of a father's descent into poverty and alcoholism. This guy. [Kobe]...
Holiday Gift Guides: For People Who Like To Eat Meat And Cheese
We suggested bacon-themed gifts last Christmas, but now we're opening things up a bit, because your arteries aren't all the way clogged yet: What do you get for someone who likes to eat meat and cheese? Cookware suggestions, meat suggestions, whatever—we want all of it. Just none of that Williams-So...
Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For People Who Read
Books! Everyone loves them, and they can make for great Christmas gifts, so long as they are not written by Mike Lupica or Mitch Albom. With that in mind, we'd like to know what books you read this year that you think other people should read. They don't have to be sports-themed, but those are cert...