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From: Marc Aronson <75664.3110>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:40:42 -0500
Speaking as both an avid sports fan and an editor, not a librarian, I agree with Tom. Sports itself has so much drama, you don't need fiction to make it more dramatic. I suspect that young people, perhaps mainly boys, who love sports feed that habit by reading magazines such as SI or ESPN. They supply great stats, photos, inside-stuff which go very well with the games we see and play. I think, then, that we should accord such magazines the same credit we do series books. They are just as important to a young person's reading, just as avidly read, and often quite well written. I think what sports fiction can do is to add depth to someone's understanding of an event -- as in The Moves Make the Man or The Contender, or the great, great first chapter of DeLillo's Underworld.
Marc Aronson
Received on Wed 06 Jan 1999 04:40:42 PM CST
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:40:42 -0500
Speaking as both an avid sports fan and an editor, not a librarian, I agree with Tom. Sports itself has so much drama, you don't need fiction to make it more dramatic. I suspect that young people, perhaps mainly boys, who love sports feed that habit by reading magazines such as SI or ESPN. They supply great stats, photos, inside-stuff which go very well with the games we see and play. I think, then, that we should accord such magazines the same credit we do series books. They are just as important to a young person's reading, just as avidly read, and often quite well written. I think what sports fiction can do is to add depth to someone's understanding of an event -- as in The Moves Make the Man or The Contender, or the great, great first chapter of DeLillo's Underworld.
Marc Aronson
Received on Wed 06 Jan 1999 04:40:42 PM CST
