They got The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and 60 Minutes, but they couldn’t get a place in the finals. The oft-profiled, top-seeded Bryan Brothers were ousted on Ashe this morning, losing in a third-set tiebreaker to the fourth-seeded team of Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8-6). “The Read More
This week’s New Yorker (dated Aug. 31) and the Aug. 30 Sunday New York Times Magazine both contain lengthy profiles of professional tennis twins Bob and Mike Bryan.
Sure, the pair has become one of the best men’s doubles teams in the game’s history, with an impressive 54 pro tournament titles. (The record Read More
Today, when workers at Three World Financial in the Wall Street district took their lunch breaks, their view of the marina was occluded by a makeshift tennis court set up in the middle of the building’s concrete courtyard. The sound of balls being hit and sneakers squeaking were joined by the Read More
The Afterword , by Mike Bryan. Pantheon, 195 pages, $16.
Ye gods, not another novel with footnotes. Not yet another metafiction, the writer writing while gazing at himself as he writes. Not another quasi-autobiographical offering laden with irony.
Well, yes. But Mike Bryan’s The Afterword is somewhat different from the usual 21st-century meta-icons. First, Read More
