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December 16, 2008
Blog: The New Yorker Blog
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Nancy’s Fancies
- I’m not really a “best of” person; I feel more of a need to be protective of the good than I do to trumpet the best. Best things can usually take care of themselves; good...
September 15, 2008
Letter from Beijing
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The Home Team
- LETTER FROM BEIJING about the way ordinary Chinese citizens experienced the Beijing Olympics. Writer tells about a group of thirty citizens in the small town of Sancha who were charged with preventing visitors from gaining access to a section of the Great Wall near the town. For China, 2008 had…
September 01, 2008
Letter from Beijing
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Fun and Games
- LETTER FROM BEIJING about the second week of the Summer Olympics. Writer describes Usain Bolt’s record-setting performance in the hundred-meter sprint. From the first heat up to the final, he seemed to be participating less in an Olympic sport than in a gargantuan party. The obvious reaction to…
August 25, 2008
Shouts & Murmurs
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Up Next
- SHOUTS & MURMURS casual in which the writer describes the imaginary Olympic event of bimonthly-status-meeting commenting, at which he excels. Describes himself loafing in his office cubicle while Olympic TV commentators Al Trautwig and Mary Carillo provide the play-by-play; “Kenney brings a rare combination to the sport…
August 25, 2008
On Television
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The Fab Fortnight
- ON TELEVISION about watching the Beijing Olympics on NBC. Watching the Beijing Olympics has turned out to be more frustrating than expected. NBC filled up thousands of hours with sports and features, on CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Telemundo, O!, and HD-NBC, and on the Web, but one might get the…
August 25, 2008
Letter from Beijing
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The Only Games in Town
- LETTER FROM BEIJING about week one at the Summer Olympics. The date was August 10th, the place was Beijing, and Michael Phelps had just spent a relaxing Sunday morning in the pool, slicing more than a second off his own world record. The event was the men’s four-hundred-metre…
August 11, 2008
The Sporting Scene
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Running to Beijing
- THE SPORTING SCENE about American distance runner Ryan Hall and his preparations for the Beijing Olympics. Writer travels to the town of Big Bear Lake, California, which sits at an altitude of seven thousand feet, to see Ryan Hall. At the age of twenty-five, Hall has already run the…
July 07, 2008
Annals Of Naught
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Nothing Doing
- Talk Story about Yankees’ team record for shut outs. Seventy-seven years ago this summer, the Yankees began what would become one of the more obscure records in their exulted history: games played without getting shut out. After a 1-0 loss to the Red Sox on August 2, 1931, the…
June 09, 2008
Life and Letters
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The Running Novelist [ABSTRACT]
- LIFE AND LETTERS about running and writing novels. The writer started running on a regular basis in the fall of 1982, when he was thirty-three. Not long before that, he was the owner of a small jazz club in Tokyo. Most of his friends had predicted that the club…
March 24, 2008
The Sporting Scene
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Nails Never Fails
- THE SPORTING SCENE about Lenny Dykstra. The first time the writer met Lenny Dykstra, the former Mets and Phillies star, Dykstra nearly stood him up for lunch at the St. Regis Hotel, in New York. Mets fans of a certain age will recall a popular poster from 1986, bearing the…
