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The Season Is Over: Rob’s Final Post: Part I
Posted on February 2, 2016 Leave a Comment
By Rob Casper So the season is over for our collective teams. I was walking home last week when I spotted the Cardinals-Packers playoff game on in our local bar. Standing outside in the cold, I followed the waning seconds of regulation but decided to give up right before the last play — I said […]
Book 16: Alejandro Zambra’s ‘The Private Lives of Trees’
Posted on January 14, 2016 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is reading The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra. And we’re posting about The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain — and How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis and River House by Sally Keith and who knows what else because it’s the playoffs, most of our teams are done for the […]
Book 15: Mairtin O Cadhain’s ‘The Dirty Dust’
Posted on January 4, 2016 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is reading The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain — and getting caught up after the holidays with posts about everything from How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis to River House by Sally Keith. The Dirty Dust — all the characters of which are dead in their graves — has finally been translated into […]
Book 14: Eleanor Davis’s ‘How to Be Happy’
Posted on December 14, 2015 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is reading How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis and posting about River House by Sally Keith — and maybe Richard McGuire’s Here and Ray Russell’s The Case Against Satan. How to be Happy is Davis’s first collection of graphic/literary short stories, was named one of NPR’s and Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of 2014, […]
Book 13: Sally Keith’s ‘River House’
Posted on December 3, 2015 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is reading River House by Sally Keith and posting about Richard McGuire’s Here and Ray Russell’s The Case Against Satan. River House is Keith’s fourth collection of poetry and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called the book “heartbreaking and robust” and an exploration of “the complexity of the mind […]
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