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Marcel Proust, Jay Cutler, and Mike Glennon Walk Into a Bar
Posted on October 7, 2017 Leave a Comment
As we enter Week 5 of the NFL Season, the Bears are 1-3, Mike Glennon has thrown more than twice as many interceptions in Chicago than Jay Cutler has in sunny Miami, and I’ve really only started reading Proust. But before we get to that, I’d just like to note: (1) this story about how […]
So Much to Say: On Mark Strand, Dorsey Levens, and ‘Brain Fever’
Posted on September 23, 2015 Leave a Comment
By Rob Casper 1. This weekend was difficult. I knew the Packers were playing the Seahawks, for the first time since last year’s disastrous NFC championship. Aside no. 1: To my mind, the only thing worse than being a Packer fan after last year’s NFC championship is being a Seahawks fan after the Super Bowl […]
The Truth Is Terrible: On ‘Against Football’ and the Bears’ Pre-Season
Posted on September 9, 2015 Leave a Comment
By Adam Boretz Were I making a list of things I’d have absolutely no problem missing out on — a head wound, the music of Slipknot, gonorrhea, a close personal friendship with Anthony Weiner — Bears’ pre-season football would land pretty close to the top. Let’s be honest: Pre-season football is all but meaningless, features a sad array of […]
Book One: Sherwood Anderson’s ‘Winesburg, Ohio’
Posted on September 9, 2015 Leave a Comment
As the NFL season begins in earnest and the games actually matter — well for some teams, that is — FBC will be reading Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson. Published in 1919, this story story cycle — which launched Anderson’s career and follows the life of protagonist George Willard in the titular small town — is ranked #24 on […]
Building Something: On Childhood Memories, ‘Against Football,’ the New York Jets, and My Future Kids
Posted on September 7, 2015 3 Comments
By Dan Bjork When I signed up for this, I didn’t think my chances of making it were all that good. I thought, best case scenario: I’d schedule my Sunday workout for Jets’ kick-off and most of the time they’d be well on their way to losing by the time I finished — it’d be easy enough […]
Pre-Season: Steve Almond’s ‘Against Football’
Posted on August 10, 2015 Leave a Comment
For the NFL pre-season, Football Book Club will be reading Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto by Steve Almond. Almond — a Raiders fan, journalist, and author of My Life in Heavy Metal, Candyfreak, and God Bless America — summarized his manifesto in a 2014 interview with Electric Literature, saying: “The point of Against Football is not just that […]
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