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The DNA of Place: On Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’
Posted on December 9, 2015 1 Comment
By Rob Casper So we’ve reached week 13 in the NFL season — time enough to think of how FBC has changed my life. I’ve read a whole lot of books I never would’ve known of, or otherwise found the time to break open. Which has led me to more reading — right now I’m […]
Circling Around Something Abstract: On ‘Speak,’ White Space, and What We Do When We’re by Ourselves
Posted on November 14, 2015 Leave a Comment
By Dan Bjork I spent around 90 minutes last Wednesday night (November 4th) on Periscope watching a man and his girlfriend give a tour of their apartment. I don’t know either of them, or rather, I have a pretty good feel for them — I was watching because I already felt like I knew them […]
Coming Home Again: On Books, Travel, Life, More Books, and the Green Bay Packers
Posted on November 13, 2015 Leave a Comment
By Rob Casper I feel like I need to write my fellow FBC folk an apology note. I did not mean to be absent; in fact, over the course of the first few weeks I realized how invaluable reading you and writing to you could be. But then my life overwhelmed me: five trips in […]
Book 10: Carmen Gimenez Smith’s ‘Milk and Filth’
Posted on November 10, 2015 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is reading Carmen Giménez Smith’s Milk and Filth — and posting about Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction and Speak by Louisa Hall. Milk and Filth is Giménez Smith’s fourth book of poetry — she has also written a memoir and several chapbooks and edited a fiction anthology — and was […]
The Joys and Perils of Math Rock: On Rush, Guns N’ Roses, and ‘Speak’
Posted on November 10, 2015 3 Comments
By Adam Boretz Let us begin our discussion of Louisa Hall’s Speak by quoting Ryan Henry Joe: Here’s my fucking problem though: Individually, each subplot is a drag. The narratives work well only as pieces of a puzzle, and the character arcs really overextend themselves. Yeah, okay, Mary misses her dead, soulless dog and is […]
Shit Needs to Go Down: On AI, Speech Technology, and ‘Speak’
Posted on November 9, 2015 2 Comments
By Ryan Joe 1. When your team sucks, there inevitably comes a point when you treat the season as a curiosity, like a mutated animal floating in a jar of formaldehyde. How did this happen to you? (Owner abuse.) Was there any chance that you would have lived? (No.) What does the future hold for […]
Book 9: Elizabeth Kolbert’s ‘The Sixth Extinction’
Posted on November 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s bestselling The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History — and posting about Speak by Louisa Hall. In The Sixth Extinction, which won the Pulitzer Prize and was one of The New York Times Book Review‘s 10 Best Books of the Year, Kolbert explains how we — the human race — have dramatically altered […]
Bye Week
Posted on October 26, 2015 Leave a Comment
It’s Bye Week, y’all! And that means that the NFL/Football Book Club Season is almost half over. And while we’re not reading a new book this week — everybody’s busy resting, getting cortisone injections for nagging injuries, and bemoaning their teams’ records (expect Rob, and maybe Dan) — we’re still posting about titles we’ve read this season. So […]
Book Extras: ‘Speak’
Posted on October 21, 2015 Leave a Comment
If you’re digging this week’s book — Speak by Louisa Hall — here are two reviews of the novel, one from The New York Times and one from NPR. Plus, check out the below author interview with Hall from All Things Considered: Naturally, it goes without saying, dear reader, that you should check in with […]
Book 7: Louisa Hall’s ‘Speak’
Posted on October 20, 2015 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is excited to be reading Louisa Hall’s novel Speak — and even more excited to be weighing in on Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts. For those of you keeping score at home: Will we be watching the NFL? No. Are we happy about this state of affairs? No. Would it be nice if […]
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