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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Bill Meiners, "Sport Literate" and "Game: A Sport Literate Anthology" (2023)
Description: William Meiners is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. He created Sport Literate as a graduate student at Columbia College Chicago in 1995. By day, he works as a reporter for the Gratiot County Herald, a family-owned weekly newspaper, and by night, he teaches academic writing courses at Mid Michigan CollegeFor the 25th anniversary of Sport Literate, Bill and his colleague Brian McKenna chose essays for a special anthology edition entitled Game: A Sport Literate Anthology (Pint-Size Publications, 2023). It features essays from across a wide array of sports: heavy hitters like baseball, football, and b...