Hail and Farewell: Jim Bouton
Hello sportsfans. It is our sad duty to report the passing of Jim Bouton—former New York Yankee All-Star pitcher, and perhaps the most famous literary chronicler of life in Major… Read more »
Inside Baseball: Notes from Jim Bouton’s Iconic Ball Four are Going to Auction
The opening lines of the 1970 New York Times review of Jim Bouton’s Ball Four are some of the finest that the format has to offer: Irreverent Jim Bouton! Betrayer of secrets! Clubhouse lawyer! Doesn’t care… Read more »
Did OUP ban references to pork products in its textbooks? Not really, but here are some references Melville House is banning
Here we are only a few weeks into 2015, and yet we’ve encountered enough stories of publishers unwilling to offend their potential audiences to last us through the end of… Read more »