For many years I didn't have health insurance.
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...
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
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...