From the Masslive.com blog, a conversation with Seth Mnookin, author of Feeding the Monster.
Like many authors these days, Mnookin has taken to blogging as another way to reach his readers. But as if often the case with new toys, the user soon tires and loses interest.
Blogging, says Mnookin, is “like stepping off a treadmill, or something. When you have the momentum, it’s a lot easier to keep it up.”
Here’s my “Bookshelf” profile of Mnookin, along Joshua Prager and Jonathan Mahler, two colleagues from his old employer The Forward who penned The Echoing Green and Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning, respectively.
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From an unwieldy-named blog, which I won’t bother to spell out, an interview with Elliott Kalb, author of Who’s Best, Who’s Best in Baseball, another “definitive” ranking of the game’s greats. Kalb, a.k.a. “Mr. Stats” at ESPN, TNT and HBO, and a former writer for Vin Scully. The questions are a bit pedestrian, but it’s an interesting insight overall.
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From Book Business Magazine, a behind-the-scenes look at the sports publishing genre with Dave Hulsey, vp of sales and marketing at Sports Publishing LLC.
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