Leslie Pietrzyk, novelist, blogger, and fabulous member of my fabulous writing group, has a short story in the new anthology, BASEBALL'S BEST SHORT STORIES, edited by Peter Staudohar. Her story, "What We All Want," appears alongside work by famous names like T.C. Boyle, Michael Chabon, James Thurber, and George Plimpton. Publisher's Weekly calls this an "excellent collection chronicling more than a century of America's love affair with baseball." Sounds like a home run to me...
On your way around the bases, don't miss Tim Wendel's new book, SUMMER OF '68, a Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Sports Title. Wendel will be reading at Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC, this Saturday, April 14 at 1pm.
Ken Burns (yes THAT Ken Burns, creator of the award-winning baseball documentary) says Wendel "gets to the heart of this game and the complicated republic it so precisely mirrors."
In vivid, novelistic detail, SUMMER OF ’68 tells the story of the unforgettable baseball season—the last before rule changes and expansion would alter baseball forever—when the country was captivated by the national pastime at the moment it needed the game most.
Now, Play Ball! Or, you know, read about it...