I might have something more meaningful here in coming days (I'm working on it), but until then, a song that I've been playing contless times since his death last week:
Sunday, March 27, 2011
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Sports, music, narratives: Dispatches from the Midwest
Albums on repeat
- Constantines - Kensington Heights
- Best Coast - Crazy For You
- Wild Flag - Wild Flag
- R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
- Paul Simon - Graceland
- Ride - Nowhere
Currently reading
- Graham Greene - The Power And The Glory
- Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
Read in '11
- Michael Chabon - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase
- Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Story Of A Part-Time Indian
- Willa Cather - My Antonia
- Chad Harbauch - The Art Of Fielding
- Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
- Tina Fey - Bossypants
- Joe McGinnis - The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
- David Goldblatt - The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
- Greg Kot - Wilco: Learning How To Die
- Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of A Game
- Sarah Vowell - Assassination Vacation
- Grant Wahl - The Beckham Experiment
- Patton Oswalt - Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
- Philip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle
- Robert Palmer - Deep Blues
- Greil Marcus - Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock'n'Roll Music
Read in '10
- Larry Tye - Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
- Sherman Alexie - War Dances
- Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita
- Chuck Klosterman - Downtown Owl
- Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
- Will Leitch - Are We Winning?
- Stefan Fatsis - A Few Seconds of Panic
- Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures With Extremeists
- Thomas Frank - What's the Matter with Kansas?
- Joe Posnanski - The Machine: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
- Greg Kot - Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
- Jon Krakauer - Under the Banner of Heaven
- Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover
- David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
- David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
- Harvey Pekar - The Beats: A Graphic History
- Steve Bloomfield - Africa United: Soccer, Passion, Politics and the World Cup in Africa
- Ron Hansen - Nebraska
- Tom Wolfe - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
- Lester Bangs - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
- The Rules of the Game: The Best Sportswriting from Harpers Magazine
- Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates
- Seth Davis - When March Went Mad: The Game That Changed College Basketball
- John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
- Chuck Klosterman - Eating the Dinosaur
- Sherman Alexie - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Read in '09
- Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
- Chuck Klosterman - IV
- Michael Chabon - Maps & Legends
- Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried
- Chuck Klosterman - Fargo Rock City
- Bill Buford - Among the Thugs
- Michael Lewis - Moneyball
- Ira Glass - The New Kings of Nonfiction
- Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation
- Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue
- John Darnielle - Master of Reality
- Carl Wilson - Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
Jack
- JHitts
- Central Illinois resident, Michigan native. I watch a lot of sports, write a lot of articles, listen to a lot of music and read a lot books. The first two are my job, the last two simply make me a nerd.
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