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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure every author has their own process.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.
- Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
- Grad School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor.
- Moderate
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- Nov 07, 2020