Author Archives: Eric

Bryan Harvey, who has previously written here about Brian McCann and Jason Heyward and John Henry, is a high school teacher and poet, who writes for The Faster Times and The Lawn Chair Boys. His poetry has appeared in the … Continue reading →

Find more of Megan Wells at Around the Horn from Aerys Sports. The end of this book affected me in ways I really didn’t expect. I read it in a marathon binge session, guiltily hoping for Henry’s glorious Hollywood return … Continue reading →

Bryan Harvey, who has previously written here about Brian McCann and Jason Heyward and John Henry, is a high school teacher and poet, who writes for The Faster Times and The Lawn Chair Boys. His poetry has appeared in the … Continue reading →

Find more of Adam at Everyday Footnotes. Well, that certainly got plotty, didn’t it? Maybe I skipped over the warnings but I hadn’t been concerned that Guert was putting his job on the line with his affair. The book successfully … Continue reading →

Find more of Megan Wells at Around the Horn from Aerys Sports. Everything seems finally to be coming to a head in the novel. Relationships are breaking down and forcing the characters to figure out their own lives, instead of … Continue reading →

Pete Beatty is a future boss at The Classical and P&P’s resident Jim Thome scholar. “Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”–Poetics “Is Ahab, Ahab?”–Moby-Dick, Ch 132 As Henry and Schwartz and the fifth business folks eddy … Continue reading →

If I was going to pick one chapter of The Art of Fielding to excerpt on Pitchers & Poets it would be Chapter 50. Chapter 50 deals explicitly with none of the story’s main characters – Guert Affenlight is there, … Continue reading →

Find more of Adam at Everyday Footnotes. I have made a point of avoiding anything that might spoil any part of TAF for me. I *did* buy last month’s Vanity Fair so I could read Keith Gessen’s article on TAF … Continue reading →