Three Percent #189: Baseball

Chad Post — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:00:46 +0000

Well, we did it: One whole episode just about baseball and books about baseball and baseball memories and anything else baseball. Caitlin Luce Baker of Island Books, James Crossley of Madison Books, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis join Chad W. Post from Open Letter to pick their “all-time favorite” books about baseball.

This week’s music is “” and “” by The Baseball Project.

Caitlin’s Picks:

��by Jonathan Fraser Light

by David James Duncan

by Jim Bouton

by Robert K. Adair

Alan Nathan’s blog,

by Ron Shelton

��by Marcos Bretón and José Luis Villegas

by John Helyar

Dan’s Picks:

by John R. Tunis

by Mark Kingwell

by Heidi LM Jacobs

James’s Picks:

& by Pat Jordan

by Andrew Forbes

by Eric Rolfe Greenberg

by Kadir Nelson

by Donald Hall

Chad’s Picks:

by Derek Jeter

by Robert Coover

by Rick Ankiel

(film)

by Ivan Felt and Harris Conklin

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TMR 10.1: “Brave Publishing” [Ducks, Newburyport]

Chad Post — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:10:05 +0000

The tenth season of the Two Month Review gets underway with special guest Dan Wells of Biblioasis talking about how they came to publish Lucy Ellmann’s��, and the risks involved in doing a 1,020-page book. They also introduce Ellmann–who has one of the greatest bios ever–and the novel itself. Conversation topics include: kidneys vs. cinnamon rolls, “torrent of consciousness” writing, catching your breath in a one-sentence novel, how much Chad loves moms, the role of memory in the text, the mountain lion sections, how funny and angry the book is all at once, and much more. If you haven’t started the book, don’t worry! This is a great introduction and the concept of “spoilers” doesn’t really apply to a novel like this one.

If you’d prefer to��watch the conversation, you can find it on along with . Next week’s episode (up to page 150) will be broadcast live . And you can discuss this book at the reactivated Goodreads .

This week’s music is “Lucy” by Soccer Mommy, partly because it’s a solid single, partly because it’s called “Lucy,” and partly because of this quote from��Ducks, Newburyport:

the fact that we pretend to be interested in soccer, for the kids’ sake, but it’s a real strain, sprain, the fact that all the other soccer moms and dads get so excited, while I just stand there getting cold, frozen, frozen out by the other moms as well, the fact that they always ask where Leo is, as if neither of us has anything better to do than watch little kids kick a ball around, the fact that the other moms and dads yell and cheer till they’re hoarse, the fact that it isn’t right, I don’t think, to make kids so competitive about things, the fact that we think the other parents are too involved, but they probably think we aren’t involved enough,

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Three Percent #189: Baseball

TMR 10.1: “Brave Publishing” [Ducks, Newburyport]