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P&P Reading Club: Patrick Dubuque on The Art of Fielding Chapters 53-72

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Patrick

I first read Siddhartha in my mid-twenties, the perfect time.  I had performed all the necessary rites: earned my useless liberal arts degree, failing classes and writing awful songs for the guitar.  I had lived overseas and returned; I found … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Patrick Dubuque on The Art of Fielding Chapters 18-33

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Patrick

I have a hard time with modern novels.  In a comment last week, Carson noted that he is “largely prejudiced against books in which characters have ‘emotional problems’ and in which they make ‘poor life decisions.’”  I tend to feel … Continue reading →

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P&P Reading Club: Carson Cistulli on The Art of Fielding Chapters 1 -17

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Ted

Find Carson at Fangraphs and Notgraphs. The achievement, for me, of the first 100 pages is two of its characters — both (a) the mythical shortstop (and hero of protagonist Henry Skrimshander) Aparicio Rodriguez, whose (fake) book The Art of … Continue reading →

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The Inaugural Pitchers & Poets Reading Club

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Eric

Here at Pitchers & Poets we don’t shy away from the literary side of things — the site is called Pitchers & Poets, after all–and lately we’ve all felt the drive to take our literary pursuits somewhere new. We think … Continue reading →

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