Baseball Fiction

Posted on July 1, 2010. Filed under: Fiction | Tags: , |

“It may sound incredible, but they seemed more interested in the ball game.” – Wilfred Denno, Warden, Sing-Sing Prison on the reaction of death row inmates to the abolishment of capital punishment in New York in 1965. It’s time for you to sit down in front of the fan with a box of Cracker Jack and a [...]

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On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates

Posted on September 8, 2009. Filed under: Nonfiction | Tags: , |

Naomi Wolfson, Oakton Library Assistant recommends this book: On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates At first I wasn’t sure why anyone would read this book. It was old, like 1987 old, and then there was, of course, the issue of boxing. Is it a blood thirsty sport of sweaty men and large egos, or is [...]

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