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Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
The book that made a legend -- and captures America's sport in detail that's never been matched, featuring a foreword by Nicholas Dawidoff and never-b...
Collects profiles, essays, articles, and short stories by the American sportswriter....
A Month on the PGA Tour
From the author of Paper Lion What happens when a weekend athlete โ of average skill at best โ joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpto...
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American Girl
When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye l...
In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
Using oral biography, a technique that perfectly matches the style of his subject, George Plimpton blends the voices of Capote's lovers, haters, acqua...
Cover title: Fireworks: a history and celebration....
Football Revisited
George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books -- repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Alm...
Very Special Artists
Sixteen disabled artists talk about their lives and how art has made a difference to them....
And Other Excursions and Observations
George Plimpton needed no encouragement. If there was a sport to play, a party to throw, a celebrity to amaze, a fireworks display to ignite, Plimpton...
An American Biography
A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick โExceptionally seductive... You canโt put it downโ LA ...
Strippable
This issue celebrates the great American tradition of literary humor and investigates the future of the medium. Brendan Gill ponders his varied career...
The latest issue of "the biggest 'little magazine' in history" (Time magazine) is devoted to playwrights and the theater. Paris Review defines where t...
A History and Celebration
In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
He was the most social of writers, and at the height of his career, he was the very nexus of the glamorous worlds of the arts, politics and society, a...
More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure
For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It's a legendary oasis, ...
"Beloved by readers of all ages, this is the timeless and uproarious story of Hayden "Sidd" Finch - an eccentric Buddhist monk pitcher and New York Me...
An Amateur in the Ring
From the author of Paper Lion Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induc...
Every one of his Antarctic expeditions ended in failure. His life "off the ice" was a series of failed get-rich-quick schemes. And yet the name of Sir...
A Novel
In April 1985, Sports Illustrated published an article that stunned the sports community. George Plimpton's 13-page profile of Sidd Finch, a mysteriou...
A Football Dialogue with Bill Curry
A series of letters written to Dr. Rawff, a pet-problem advice columnist and veterinarian, holds the clues to his mysterious disappearance, and it is ...
Depicts in text and illustrations the fanciful adventures of rabbits with umbrellas....
Footboall Revisited
George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books-now repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Al...
Valiant Horses, Courageous Dogs, and Other Unsung Animal Heroes
An unforgettable anecdotal survey, by turns deeply moving and beguilingly entertaining, of the surprising roles that animals have played throughout th...
The "Paris Review" Interviews
The Inside Story of Hank Aaron's Chase for the Home Run Record
The inside story of Hank Aaron's chase for the home run record, repackaged and with a foreword by Bob Costas and new material from the Plimpton Archiv...
Author's account of his unusual experience pitching in an exhibition game between the National and American Leagues....
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
A Quest for Excellence
Celebrated journalist and author George Plimpton sets out to find that elusive quality--which he calls the "X Factor"--that all winners, from famous a...
George Plimpton is embarrassed. The noted amateur of odd sporting experience has lost one horseshoe match to George Bush, a match that was as much a t...