Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.
A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.
A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.
Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state’s team beat your city-state’s team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.
The movie – any sports movie – becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
Sports – especially the NBA – function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can’t possibly be solved within the realm of sports.
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.
You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch’s quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he’s really amazing.
You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don’t matter. I, Dad, don’t matter. We’re vectors on the grids of cellular life.