Author: Brad Zellar

  • "Mrs. Iowa Pulled It Out Of My Foot"

    It’s kind of nice when a headline can make your day, and even nicer when the story is even better than the headline: “Beauty Contestant Bitten By Rattlesnake.”

  • When You Have So Few Big Things To Offer, It's The Little Things That'll Kill You Every Time: Swept In Cleveland, And Done

    Well, that was a tough series to watch. A team that we’ve learned to take for granted when it comes to executing the fundamentals of the game and not giving away ballgames has officially become a colossal disappointment. It would be hard, really, to even know where to start. I’ll say this, though: Nick Punto’s…

  • It's Not Dark Yet, But It's Getting There: 8-3 Drubbing In Cleveland

    I’ve got Little Jimmy Scott crooning from the stereo and that’s never a particularly good sign, at least so far as mood barometers go. At this point I’m not fool enough to say that’s it, but I nonetheless can’t deny that I’m mighty tempted to say that’s it, even as I’ve been mighty tempted to…

  • A Prayer For Michael Vick

    May you be forgiven. May you be given a second chance: May you come back as a dog. May you be lost. May you be found. May you be loved. May the whole world smell wonderful. And may you know the touch of gentle hands and the soft voice of someone who sees and knows…

  • Junot Diaz

    Junot Diaz’s debut collection of short stories, Drown, appeared ten years ago and drew the kind of attention usually reserved for writers with more established résumés. A big part of that was the cool intensity of the prose, which chronicled the lives of adolescent boys living in hardscrabble communities in the Dominican Republic, or transplanted…

  • Per Petterson

    It’s been a huge year for Norwegian writer Per Petterson. The acclaim for his latest novel ranged from Thomas McGuane’s front-page rave in the Times Book Review (“A gripping account of such originality as to expand the reader’s own experience of life”) to the $135,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. .___________________________________________________. Award-winning author Richard Ford…