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March 28, 2025 | Sports

Unathletic Incident

Alex Avakiantz

Before that glorious year, I was relegated to the “husky” section, which is clothing not for dogs but overweight children.

March 28, 2025 | Sports

MARCH MADNESS, 2019: Author as Capitalistic Commodity

Elizabeth Ellen

"There are no actual pages. They are hollow. They are just for show. I think how perfect that is, how much of the literary world is just for show. Hollow. Superficial. More often than not it doesn’t matter the words inside, only the name on the book, the book as an object, the author as object. Author as persona. Author as capitalistic commodity. Minor celebrity. A name to drop at a New York City party."

 

February 17, 2025 | Sports

Golfing with Bruce

Colin Gee

Bruce took one golf lesson at the local country club and rushed home to teach us what he knew: line your toes up in the direction you want to shoot, do not step as you swing like you do in baseball,

January 22, 2025 | Sports

The Two Alis

Pavle Radonić

A glassy-looking eye staring out too from Mr A’s head. Had he been a victim somewhere along the line?

June 26, 2024 | Sports

Sports City Grill

Elwood Weebs

I just told you about the time I met Burt Reynolds.

July 21, 2023 | Sports

Duchess, 2003

Stephan Crown-Weber

There was a week when my grandma was gone, I had the whole place to myself, was drinking the regular Coca Cola classic and the half sized baby Coca Cola and brought the Abercrombie pictures out in the open on the second floor. I meditated.

June 5, 2023 | Sports

Baseball Hybrid Poem

Chris Pellizzari

I tried to remember something my dad told me about Luis Aparicio after Ozzie Guillen made an error in a game in 1991.

June 1, 2023 | Sports

watching sports on tv

Forrest Muelrath

The Marathon was born out of a legend about a fifth-century Greek messenger named Philippides who ran 26.2 miles without stopping to deliver a message that the Greeks had defeated the Persians in battle.

May 25, 2023 | Sports

sports guy

Wiley Lawrence

I can’t remember the last time I tried to play tennis or any sport but I can tell you all the winners from this week’s tournament

March 30, 2023 | Sports

The First 900

Carson Pytell

I wasn't surprised that he told me he used to skate, everyone did, but it felt like I did take a bump when he told me I must be my father's son.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks! 

Legs Get Led Astray

Chloe Caldwell

“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”

Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD