Entries from May 2012

May. 24, 2012

Giamatti on baseball

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Tags:   · ·

May. 24, 2012

Fenway ’56

A ticket to Fenway Park, August 7, 1956: 68 cents + 7 cents tax for a bleacher seat.

Tags:   · ·

May. 16, 2012

Ken Burns: On Story

Ken Burns: On Story (video)

Tags:   · ·

May. 16, 2012

Into the Woods

A blog post I did for Random House over on Tumblr, including a view of Cold Spring Park.

Tags:   · ·

May. 8, 2012

John Fox on ball games

Book trailer for “The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game” by my friend John Fox (on sale May 14).

Tags:   ·

May. 5, 2012

The original death of publishing

  The New Yorker

Tags:   ·

May. 5, 2012

New York, 1908

The Manhattan bridge under construction (photo).

Tags:  

May. 3, 2012

Graham Greene by Yousuf Karsh

Graham Greene, 1964. Portrait by Yousuf Karsh. (photo)

Tags:   · · ·

May. 3, 2012

Ex Libris

An offer of new signed bookplates for my readers.

Tags:   · ·