Get in the Game

What this episode covers

On March 11, 2023, Kasie and Rex took on sports stories and their natural drama as devices for your fiction. Our legal thrillers episode got us thinking about how many other real-life experiences have built-in stakes. We’ve done some of these before (weddings, funerals, etc). Today we’re going to focus on sports and we might circle back to one or more of these later in the month. Here are some classic sports novels (link). Which ones have you read? The Natural – Bernard Malamud (baseball) – a player whose career was derailed, attempts a comeback 16 years later End Zone – Don Delillo (football) – high school football and nuclear war? Yes, please. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace (tennis) – yes, if you can wade through the 1000 pages of trying, you’ll eventually discover some tennis This was a good list, if for no other reason than it reminded me that the sports trope in romance isn’t actually a sports book (wink).

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