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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Thomas Beller takes a step back and looks at basketball more critically
Description: Thomas Beller is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University, a regular contributor to the New Yorker, and the author of J. D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, How to Be a Man, and Seduction Theory, among other books.
He’s noted that his writing differs in form and genre but tends to share a lot of the same preoccupations: “the dynamics of relationships, a sense of place, and a preoccupation with the nature and effect of time.”
We talk in this conversation about his book Lost in the Game: A Book About Basketball, which is definitely concerned with this question of tim...