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May 2011
On Sale: May 3, 2011
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ISBN: 0061769134
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A longtime sports columnist for the New York Times
interweaves stories from his life and the events he covered
to explore the relationships between the games we play and
the lives we lead Growing up, Robert Lipsyte was the smart-aleck fat kid, the
bully magnet who went to the library instead of the
ballpark. As the perpetual outsider, even into adulthood,
Lipsyte's alienation from Jock Culture made him a rarity in
the press box: the sportswriter who wasn't a sports fan.
This feeling of otherness has colored Lipsyte's sports
writing for fifty years, much of it spent as a columnist for
the New York Times. He didn't follow particular athletes or
teams; he wasn't awed by the access afforded by his press
pass or his familiarity with the players in the locker room.
Between bouts at the Times, he launched a successful career
writing young adult fiction, often about sports. The experience and insight he earned over a half century
infuse An Accidental Sportswriter. Going beyond the usual
memoir, Lipsyte has written "a memory loop, a circular
search for lost or forgotten pieces in the puzzle of a
life." In telling his own story, he grapples with American
sports and society—from Mickey Mantle to Bill
Simmons—arguing that Jock Culture has seeped into our
business, politics, and family life, and its definitions
have become the standard to measure value. Full of wisdom
and an understanding of American sports that contextualizes
rather than celebrates athletes, An Accidental Sportswriter
is the crowning achievement of a rich career and a book that
will speak to us for years to come.
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