The Devil's Snake Curve: A Fan's Notes From Left Field - Softcover

Ostergaard, Josh

 
9781566893459: The Devil's Snake Curve: A Fan's Notes From Left Field
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1566893453 ISBN 13: 9781566893459
Publisher: Coffee House Press, 2014

Synopsis

A humorous, historical, and hirsute miscellany that’s the baseball book Howard Zinn would have written, if he hated the Yankees.

The Devil’s Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in which colonialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese internment camps with the Yankees; Walmart with the Kansas City Royals; and facial hair patterns with militarism, Guantanamo, and the modern security state. An essay, a miscellany, and a passionate unsettling of Josh Ostergaard’s relationship with our national pastime, it allows for both the clover of a childhood outfield and the persistence of the game’s service to those in power. America and baseball are both hard to love or leave in this, by turns coruscating and heartfelt, debut.

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About the Author

Josh Ostergaard holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and an MA in cultural anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been an urban anthropologist at the Field Museum and now works at Graywolf Press.

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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1566893453
ISBN 13 
9781566893459
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
236