It seems derisive, callously complacent about genuine suffering. It seems not just mean but cruel, sadistic. It seems, in fact, like a kind of doubling down on football’s essential meanness. That is, I could see how she could see it that way. Well, it does seem mean, I could suddenly see that. “Isn’t it mean of those men to do that?” she asked. I had confused her, and now she had confused me.
I confess that I didn’t understand what she meant. “Dad,” she said, looking serious and perplexed. When my ten-year-old daughter overheard me telling a friend that The Throwback Special is about a group of men that convenes each November to reenact the play in which Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann suffered his gruesome leg injury, she had a question. Now we’re giving away three copies of the book-click here for more information.
The Paris Review serialized Chris Bachelder’s new novel, The Throwback Special, over the past four issues. W.An illustration by Jason Novak for The Paris Review’s serialized edition of The Throwback Special.
Abbott Awaits (Louisiana State University Press, 2011). Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography (e-book), 2006, McSweeney's. Norton and Company in March 2016 and was named as a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent novel, The Throwback Special, was published by W.W. By 2004, more than 45,000 people had downloaded the novel. He currently teaches at the University of Cincinnati (Associate Professor).īachelder's e-book Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography was McSweeney's first career-development e-book. He attended Virginia Tech ( BA, 1992) and the University of Florida at Gainesville ( MFA, 2002).īachelder has taught fiction writing and literature courses at Colorado College (Assistant Professor), North Carolina Governor's School West, New Mexico State University (Visiting Professor), and The University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers, along with Sabina Murray, Noy Holland and Anthony Giardina. Chris Bachelder (born 1971) is an American writer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer.īorn in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia.
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