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Alive and Kicking: Talking with Dana Czapnik

  • Vanessa Manko
  • February 1, 2019
Dana Czapnik discusses her debut novel, THE FALCONER.
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Mother & Son

  • Brandon Hicks
  • May 5, 2018
"So go! Go forth into the world!"
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Language Is Sensational: A Conversation with Eileen G’Sell

  • Emma Winsor Wood
  • February 16, 2018
Eileen G'Sell discusses her debut collection, Life After Rugby, how and why she chose her book's title, and challenging gender categories.
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The Single Most Important Thing: Talking Sports and Writing with Sridhar Pappu

  • Erik Malinowski
  • October 2, 2017
Sridhar Pappu discusses his first book, The Year of the Pitcher, writing it over six years, and the roots of his baseball fandom.
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Subjectively Sporting

  • Michelle Vider
  • August 22, 2016
At Hyperallergic, Gretta Louw reviews a new exhibit in Berlin, Contesting/Contexting SPORT. The transdisciplinary exhibit seeks to address the gross fallacy that professional sports can be removed from the politics…
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Before There Were Super Bowls

  • David Breithaupt
  • August 16, 2016
It’s no surprise that a lot of us are sports junkies. Over at AnOther, Kate Little gives us the lowdown on Picasso, Hemingway, and Frank Stella and their favorite sporting pastimes.
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For Men and By Men

  • Katie O'Brien
  • January 8, 2016
Slate’s Rebecca Onion and Andrew Kahn analyze the overwhelming maleness of both the subjects and authors of history books, discussing their findings with book publishers: Our data set revealed some…
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Pageantry and Water Sports

  • Lyz Lenz
  • January 7, 2016
I had come in search of the meaning of synchronized swimming in modern America. Over the course of a week, I had gotten bored with the human body’s physical excellence.…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Thunder, Thighs

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • September 19, 2015
Over one third of the women in my survey had been called “Thunder Thighs” at some point in their life. Many were still haunted by this. None of them interpreted “thunder” to mean “power.
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Hideaway

  • David Bersell
  • June 15, 2015
In the woods, at first we feel like babies carried on our mothers’ backs. We run at the end of the pack with our heads shaved bald as a symbol of our newness.
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Writing for Sport

  • Jake Slovis
  • June 2, 2015
What do writing and sports have in common? For The Millions, Tracy O’Neill suggests that both writers and athletes are in the “business” of constructing “narratives,” and likens the experience of…
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His Helmet Off, Raising It High

  • Joseph Riippi
  • February 10, 2015
This was the most important moment of my life. I know it because after Number One died I started to realize I could kill myself too.
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