Tom Wolfe & John Updike

 

We had a fabulous book launch party at Tom Wolfe’s. Here is a photo from PW Daily:

 http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d684790bedf89afe76e7b9156&id=77e2e173…

 

One of the things that happened at the party is that Sports Illustrated agreed to run Tom’s exuberant foreword to Run to the Roar on their website:

 http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/the_bonus/12/17/runtoroar/index.html

 

Earlier this week a friend of mine sent me this slim new book, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. John Updike’s paean to Ted Williams. One of the things that struck me when re-reading it was how Williams had played largely before television encroached on baseball. And one of Tom’s point in his foreword is that squash is still, more or less, removed from that “shanks-akimbo harlot” of the boob tube.

 

For worse, we have always thought. But now, there is a part of me that thinks, or for better

 

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One thought on “Tom Wolfe & John Updike”

  1. You and Coach Assaiante need to start wearing NECKTIES! Great that the book is doing so well. Everybody I know is either reading it or has read it and thinks it’s terrific. Teddy Ballgame was one of the greatest hitters ever, maybe even the greatest pure hitter, whose career was TWICE interrupted by military service. If he had played for the Yankees with that short right field porch, God only knows how many jacks he would have chalked up beyond his 512.

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