For many years I didn't have health insurance.
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and f...
That was what made the story epic: the player, the hero, had to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering. Most people couldn't...
In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
