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(0)Thomas Beller
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For players, coaches, writers, and fans, basketball is a science and an art, a religious sacrament, a source of entertainment, and a way of interacting with the world. In Lost in the Game Thomas Beller entwines these threads with his lifetime experience as a player and journalist, roaming NBA locker rooms and city parks alike as a basketball flâneur in search of the meaning of the modern game. He captures the magnificence and mastery of today's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose stage is the Upper East Side of New York. But fame proved...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to Before & After: Stories from New York is a volume of true essays, vignettes, and tales culled from the urban literary website Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, in an anthology that relates the experiences of such writers as a frequent patron of Manhattan sex clubs, a 47th Street diamond dealer, and an Upper East Side doorman.
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