Lethem on Baseball
October 27th, 2004From an interview on Powells.com:
What section of the newspaper do you read first?
I like the sports section, particularly during baseball season. The statistical dramas are enacted in a realm somewhere between life and art, with the narrative pleasure of the latter and the homely and unpredictable texture of the former. Baseball is a realm of symbolic struggle so much more honest and absorbing than the rest of the newspaper, where politicians and pundits and critics struggle to blunt the nuances of everyday reality and the striving of human beings to express themselves and be free into a debased symbolic form (”good v. evil”; “realism v. the fantastic”) that resembles sports.
Huh? Hey Jonathan, baseball’s also fun. That’s OK! [via Tingle Alley]