Litstack Recs | The Good Soldier & If You Build It…
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author selected, "The...
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Gimbling in the Wabe – RIP, W. P. Kinsella
On Saturday, September 17, 2016, Canadian author W.P. (Bill) Kinsella died at age 81. The news didn't make a lot...
Gimbling in the Wabe – Peanuts and Crackerjacks
This is my favorite time of year. Baseball season. Early spring, and it's still cool out. We've yet to hit...
Litstack Rec: Spielberg, Truffaut & Me and Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban In the summer of 1976, during the first weeks of...
Gimbling in the Wabe – Beer and a Brat
This week, a friend gifted me with tickets to the Twins game that happened to fall on the day I...
Gimbling in the Wabe – Extra Innnings (or, How Do You Play the Game?)
In honor of the Major League Baseball Game, played earlier this week in Cincinnati, I am resurrecting a 2013 Gimbling...
LitStack Rec: The Empty Family & Baseball’s Great Experiment
The Empty Family, by Colm Tóibín The Empty Family, Colm Tóibín's most recent collection of stories (released in 2011), is...
LitStack Review: Biggie by Derek E. Sullivan
Biggie Derek E. Sullivan Albert Whitman & Company Release Date: March 1, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8075-0727-8 Henry Abbott is 16...
LitStack Rec: Thunderstruck & Other Stories & Baseball’s Great Experiment
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection, Thunderstruck, a grieving mother instructs...
Gimbling in the Wabe – Better Than Winning
So now we have the brouhaha over how much punishment - if any - should be given to the New...
Flash Review – What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Release Date: September 2, 2014 ISBN...
Gimbling in the Wabe – What We Choose
So I was tooling around on Facebook last night - something I do far too often - and I was...
LitStack Recs: A Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock and The Devil’s Snake Curve
A Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut (trans. by Helen Scott). Before he began directing, Francois Truffaut was...
