Archive for May 2006
Game of Shadows
With homerun number 715* no longer speculation but fact, I decided to read this remarkable work of investigative journalism. San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams broke this story— a story that continues to break my heart with every swing of his bat.
The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Memorial Day means the beginning of summer. Summer means— among other things like baseball— summer vacations. J. Maarten Troost’s harrowing and hillarious two-year odyssey in the South Pacific is my most recent indulgence in travel books.
On Fear
We are living in a culture of fear. We have fetishized our fears, trepidations and anxieties to such a monstrous degree they have consumed us. Fear eliminates options. Fear stifles creativity. Fear paralyzes. Fear poisons. Fear murders the reasoned ability to act. Our fear thrusts us into one of two courses of action: fight or […]
Positively Fifth Street
James McManus writes about sex, drugs, murder, Amarillo Slim, the history of cards, and the psychology of gambling. He does all of this using the vocabulary of no-limit Texas hold’em. Mick recommended this non-fiction book to me; I am quite grateful that he did. It does not hurt any that he is a White Sox […]
