If one tries hard enough, it’s possible to find a metaphor for the human condition in nearly any activity; and while others may don T-shirts proclaiming that “Baseball (or Camping or Golf) Is Life,” for the author, it is the craft... Read More

Basketball season is just about to start, and eleven-year-old Laurie Bird Preston doesn’t want to move to a new town. But her dad has just accepted a new job as the girls’ basketball coach in the middle school in his old hometown,... Read More

She may have died broke and virtually unknown in 1960, but the marker that Alice Walker had erected on Hurston’s grave rightly declares her “Genius of the South.” These two anthologies, a small portion of Hurston’s writings over... Read More