With his characteristic insight and wit, the Harvard-educated Plimpton recounts his experiences in successfully talking his way into training camp - not as a reporter but as a "player" - with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and actually taking snaps behind center in a preseason game.
Archibald MacLeish, Alice B. Toklas, Tallulah Bankhead, and other legends of literary and Tinsel Town fame are brought to life in witty anecdotes told by this insider who knew them all.
When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet--aristocratic, glamorous, and Andy Warhol's superstar. Then at 28 her light fizzled and died from a drug overdose. Alternately thrilling, tragic and horrifying, this book shatters many ...
This jewel of a volume, beautiful to look at and the per-fect gift for booklovers, traces the origins, development, and exquisite designs of the personalized bookplate. Magnificent images display bookplates drawn by Durer, Holbein, Hogarth, Kate Greenaway, and Aubrey Beardsley. The foreword is by best-selling author George Plimpton.
In April 1985, Sports Illustrated published an article that stunned the sports community. George Plimpton's 13-page profile of Sidd Finch, a mysterious pitcher who had been signed by the New York Mets and reportedly threw 168 mph, came complete with photos from spring training, scouting reports, and interviews with Mets players and management. A ...
Drawing on previously unpublished correspondence and illustrated with historic photos as well as more than 150 color photos, this guide chronicles the evolution of the extraordinary hilltop estate, with its two spectacular pools and astounding collections of fine art and antiques. 259 photos, 157 in full color.
In this book, the quest of avoiding humiliation a second time (THE X Factor), is discussed in a hilarious and informative fashion, leading from the locker room to the boardroom, with many strange stops in between. The author corners superstars like Bill Russell and Billie Jean King, famous coaches, the chairman of American Express, sports doctors, ...
Years ago, Harry's Bar & American Grill organized the annual International Imitation Hemingway Competition. The rules were simple: sound like Hemingway and be funny. Now the best of the Hemingway imitators has been gathered in a collection that will win approval of all aficionados of Papa.
What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, who had earlier tried out for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (in Paper Lion) and got a chance to pitch to a team of major-league all-stars in Yankee Stadium (in Out of My League), spent a month of self-imposed ...
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of "The Paris Review," this breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology has been assembled, where the greatest writers write and speak upon the greatest subjects of our time.
Ralph Kirshner has provided a richly illustrated forum to enable the West Point class of 1861 to write its own autobiography. Through letters, journals, and published accounts, George Armstrong Custer, Adelbert Ames, and their classmates tell in their own words of their Civil War battles and of their varied careers after the war.Two classes ...
A varied collection of notes and comments by various friends and acquaintances of Truman Capote that explore all aspects of his complicated personality. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
In the tradition of his smash bestseller "Edie", Plimpton brings the endlessly intriguing Truman Capote to life via a dizzying cast of oral biographers, including Lauren Bacall, Katherine Graham, Gore Vidal, and William F. Buckley, Jr. Photos.
A collection of George Plimpton's finest pieces on the contemporary sports scene. GEORGE PLIMPTON ON SPORTS collects the best writing - the most observant, the most acerbic, the most humane, and the most fun - from George Plimpton's long career as the consummate and prototypical participatory sports journalist. Here are selections that range from ...
Part mystery, part love story, part advice column, "Pet Peeves" is a comic portrait of a veterinarian driven to desperation by his patients' problems. Line drawings throughout.
For more than a century, The Explorer's Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It's a legendary oasis, and here are some of the best tales ever swapped at that capital of adventure.
With an introduction by William Styron, Writers at Work 9 contains candid conversations with some of the world's great contemporary authors. These talks with the writers about themselves and their work offer a rare opportunity to hear what writers think about the art and craft of writing.
Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous fifteen-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world, Michael Gerard Tyson. Since becoming, at age nineteen, the youngest heavyweight champion in history, Tyson's dramatic rise, fall, and continuing struggle has provoked more passionate writing, both in and out of the ...
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