The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Journalism is a strange business: The closer you get to someone, the more you find out, which is a major part of the game. But the closer you get, the less likely you are to write about the subject candidly. You might excavate details that other don’t get, but how do you handle them? And if you were somehow able to write forthrightly, how would the reading public take it because of the understandable perception that your objective filter is in the “off” position?

Jack McCallum, Sports Illustrated

4 days ago

Roy Hobbs, The Natural. “For 16 years, I’ve lived with the idea I could’ve been the best in the game. People would look and say, “There goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was at the game.’” And then Iris Gaines says, “I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.”

1 week ago