The overlap and fertile interconnections between sportswriters and ‘mainstream’ creative writers are discussed in depth through a number of case studies, including Don DeLillo (whose effort at the ‘Great American Novel’, Underworld, pivots around a baseball game), John Cheever, Philip Roth, Donna Tartt, John Updike and Nick Hornby.

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Doubles Partners—Sports Writing and Mainstream Fiction

  • Tom Bradshaw

摘要

The overlap and fertile interconnections between sportswriters and ‘mainstream’ creative writers are discussed in depth through a number of case studies, including Don DeLillo (whose effort at the ‘Great American Novel’, Underworld, pivots around a baseball game), John Cheever, Philip Roth, Donna Tartt, John Updike and Nick Hornby.