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American Life
Homestand is the most anti-MLB but pro-sandlot and hick-circuit baseball book ever published
I went on a weeklong comets-and-asteroids-destroy-our-world binge
Like so many intrusions upon our liberties, it was introduced to America by war
You never know when or wherefrom these pitches are coming. I doubt that even Oscar Wilde could hit much above .500 in this league
The wonderfully idiosyncratic sporting variant achieved extraordinary popularity in rural Iowa
Since democracy is dead in New York, I write in dead persons
The fringes of fame, the outer purlieus of power, are always much more interesting than the epicenter
‘My forty-five-year-old self is inhabiting my nine-year-old body’
When I go on an early 1970s jag — revisiting the golden age of American cinema — I can never bring myself to rewatch Five Easy Pieces
