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Book 3: ‘An Untamed State’ by Roxane Gay
Posted on October 2, 2016 Leave a Comment
For the next two weeks, Football Book Club will be reading An Untamed State by Roxane Gay and posting about Zero K by Don DeLillo. Ryan nominated An Untamed State for FBC because, “At face value, An Untamed State, about a young mother kidnapped for ransom in Haiti, is ostensibly the stuff of pulp. But Roxane Gay, based […]
It’s Cold In Here
Posted on September 19, 2016 Leave a Comment
By Ryan Joe Note: This week, we were supposed to read half of Zero K, but I ended up powering through the whole thing. So needless to say, there are end-of-the-book spoilers. I have never entirely figured out how to read Don DeLillo – a writer I admire but don’t really enjoy. I haven’t read […]
Book 2: ‘Zero K’ by Don DeLillo
Posted on September 14, 2016 2 Comments
For the next two weeks, Football Book Club will be reading Zero K by Don DeLillo — and posting about M.R. Carey’s The Girl With all the Gifts. Chandler — who will doubtlessly have a lot to say about RGIII’s latest injury and how it will impact her beloved Browns — nominated Zero K for Football Book Club […]
Books 17 & 18: ‘End Zone’ and ‘League of Denial’
Posted on February 2, 2016 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is reading Don DeLillo’s End Zone and Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru’s League of Denial. And we’ll be posting about The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra, along with anything else we feel like throwing in there because football season is just about over and we are all in great moods because the […]
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