February 2011
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The Literature of Sport
Hello. I am currently teaching an elective class titled, “The Literature of Sport.” I am teaching this class to some fairly elite high school athletes, from soccer players to golf prodigies. Suffice it to say, I know very little about sport, though I did grow up in the same neighborhood as many of the San Francisco Giants players of the late ’80s. I was Will Clark’s...
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from The Paris Review, Fall/Winter 1978 →
roadsidelions:
DIDION
I think I really put the novel in Sacramento because I was homesick. I wanted to remember the weather and the rivers.
INTERVIEWER
The heat on the rivers?
DIDION
The heat. I think that’s the way the whole thing began. There’s a lot of landscape that I never would have described if I hadn’t been homesick. If I hadn’t wanted to remember. The impulse was nostalgia. It’s...
fatmanatee asked: Until last week, I figured your tumblr name meant "tiny sneeze" but then I found out that wasn't the case.
I'm still calling you Tiny Sneeze.
I'm still calling you Tiny Sneeze.
