Vindicated (and other new titles) updated

March 18, 2008

As Opening Day approaches, the warm thoughts of afternoons in the sun will be obliterated by the cloud that is the steroids scandal. Jose Canseco, our guest “meteorologist,” is back with his sequel. The March 17 Publisher’s Weekly offers this feature on how the buzz about Canesco’s latest literary contribution is is stealing the thunder from other subjects, including Gary Carter’s autobiography, Still a Kid (Triumph); several titles noting Yankee Stadium’s final season; and Sport, an intriguing project:

New York–based conceptual artist Kenneth Goldsmith has transcribed every word—play-by-play, on-air promos and conversational banter—uttered by two New York Yankees announcers throughout the course of a five-hour radio broadcast from Fenway Park in August 2006. The book begins with an ad for “1 800 LAW CASH” and ends with “the Yankees win! The Yankees win!,” but along the way every precious detail and numbing non-sequitur imaginable passes by in the 40,000-word stream that narrates the contest.

(Thanks go to Greg Spira for the heads-up.)

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