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Church of Baseball The Making of Bull Durham Home Runs Bad Calls Crazy Fights Big Swings & a Hit
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Ron Shelton
jdmwriter
, November 27, 2022
This beguiling memoir is way more than a bittersweet look at the classic baseball film by its writer and director. It also a hilarious take on the curious, often maddening ways of Hollywood. A step-by-step account of how one person's simple idea (two guys in love with the same woman who's in love with the wrong guy) becomes a film. Also a how-to primer on the difficult art of screenwriting. Ron Shelton definitely hits it out of the park with "The Church of Baseball."
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Duck Season
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David McAninch
jdmwriter
, April 01, 2017
"Duck Season" is a tasty visit to the lesser-known Gascony region of southwestern France, written with admirable curiosity, verve and humor. Chicagoan David McAninch -- with his wife and young daughter -- moved into an aging textile mill in a village for eight months and immersed themselves in Gascon daily life, food, drink and culture. Secrets of such regional staples as duck confit, goat cheese and Armagnac are slowly revealed in this memoir's engaging chapters, plus some classic Gascon recipes that the adventuresome McAninch tested not only on his family but also on a host of villagers who became their friends. "Duck Season" is the best sort of foreign involvement.
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Where the Suckers Moon The Life & Death of an Advertising Campaign
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Randall Rothenberg
jdmwriter
, April 04, 2016
Despite how much time has passed, "Where the Suckers Moon" is a classic insider look at the advertising business, with special interest to those of us in the Northwest. That's because it details the turbulent early 1990s' marriage between struggling Subaru (later to become this region's quintessential car) and Wieden & Kennedy, the acclaimed Portland ad agency trying to build on its signal success with Nike. Author Rothenberg managed to go behind-the-scenes for every important meeting between the hip-hot agency and its flailing client. There is tension and turmoil, creativity and compromise in this riveting non-fiction page-turner.
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Art of Fielding
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Chad Harbach
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, January 01, 2012
A much-lauded debut novel that delivers what few other debuts offer -- characters that burrow deep into your heart, as they make their way in an utterly compelling story from start to finish...How sad it is to see it finally end!
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Art of Fielding
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Chad Harbach
jdmwriter
, September 20, 2011
Clear your calendar, click off your computer, settle into the multitude of reading delights provided by the 500-plus pages of this masterful debut novel. It is indeed one of the great baseball novels, as reviewers have said, but it is not just a book for seamheads. This is a marvelous campus novel, a coming-of-age novel, a novel of love and redemption in many forms. It envelops you in its fictional world, grabs hold, doesn't let go during its unpredictable ebb and flow. Chad Harbach does what Jonathan Franzen is supposed to do, but better. "The Art of Fielding" will become a familiar title when awards are announced for the best books of 2011.
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