Between innings there was a mini-car race, a BBQ apron give-away, tee shirts catapulted into the crowd and tossed from a truck that circled the field, a chicken dance dance-off, kids running the bases, and more kids racing the Spinners’ three mascots, the Canaligators. Meanwhile, in between all these shenanigans, an actual ball game was played. Or so they tell me. I was having too much fun to notice. more »

Horton Foote: "I just felt it could have been set in my little town in Texas. We had a large black population. We had all the prejudices that the book exposes and, I think, a lot of the virtues which were Southern virtues that were this sense of place, this sense of really belonging to something and this essential conflict of being surrounded by a problem that we still haven't solved." more »

It's enjoyable to find a story told in a layered way. This one reads so convincingly like a memoir that the reader is tempted to forget that it really is artful fiction. It could also be a non-academic dissertation of food with implications of the intimate connections between who we are and what we are accustomed to eating. more »

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