Focus: Baseball
Volume 46, Number 1
Spring 2025
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From the Editor
On the Parasitic University by Jeffrey Di Leo
Focus: Baseball
The Game of Baseball is Worth the Price of a Diamond by E. Ethelbert Miller
Baseball and Me by Tony Medina
Finding Life in the Game by Susan Stinson
My Father’s Singular Baseball Story by David Wilk
Baseball and the Writing Life: An Interview with Suzanne Kamata by Miho Kinnas
Beisbol Diplomacy: Two Days When Baseball Beat Politics by John Cavanagh
Double Dekker: Virginia Woolf and Pamphlet by Anthony Madrid
Essay
Selling Literature Humanities in Late Academe by Robert L. Caserio
Fiction
Beth McDermott reviews Cravings by Garnett Kilberg Cohen
Richard Squires reviews Cybill Unbound by Catherine Hiller
Mary K. Holland reviews Ascension: A Novel by Steve Tomasula
Greg Sanders reviews Direct Sunlight: Stories by Christine Sneed
E-feature
Michael Joyce reviews Trans-Neuronal by Magda Cârneci and Wanda Mihuleac
Karen Corinne Herceg reviews Leakage & Smoke by Richard Martin
Albert Dépas reviews Steeple at Sunrise: New Poems by Burt Kimmelman
The Laureates
Essays
Patrick Fey reviews Revelation at the Food Bank by Merrill Joan Gerber
Interview
Reconstructions: An Interview with Jerry Stahl by S.L. Wisenberg
From Our Own
Scenes
Cowboy Jamboree Press: An Interview with Adam Van Winkle
Poetics to Come
Kafka and Me: A Poetics of Going Ape-Shit? by Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
Beneath the Surfaces of the World: Stephen Dunn by Justin Courter
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
