October 18, 1999, p. 212
Matt Haber, who has a mind like a thousand flypapers tangled in a black hole, did us the service of finding the old New Yorker tale of Dave Eggers’ loss of a benefit’s worth of money years before NKotB’s n+1 got around to doing the same. Read More
In 2004, Franklin Foer, then a writer for The New Republic and Slate, published a book called How Soccer Explains the World. It was a good book, essentially nine or 10 travel pieces that explored not so much how the game explains the world, but how it reflects the world. It had some holes, some Read More
Oh the Glory of It All, by Sean Wilsey. The Penguin Press, 482 pages, $25.95.
Sean Wilsey had a lousy childhood, which is a shame. Then, when his father died, his stepmother inherited a considerable fortune, part of which might otherwise have gone to Sean, who got nothing, which is also a shame. Before you Read More
