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Book Signing: Bill Littlefield
NPR radio host Bill Littlefield will sign his book, Mercy. For 25 years, Bill Littlefield hosted and wrote for NPR's weekly sports magazine program, Only A Game, which he helped to create in 1993. His commentaries enlivened Morning Edition and appeared in The Boston Globe and various other papers and magazines. Littlefield is the author of seven books, including two novels, Prospect and The Circus in the Woods.
Date:
09/30/2023
Time:
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Place:
Rozzie Bound Co-op
739 South Street
Roslindale, MA 02131-2561
739 South Street
Roslindale, MA 02131-2561
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In a neighborhood nondescript except for how often small houses are being torn down to make way for big houses, a beautiful woman too young to be widowed waits for her husband to come home from prison. Arthur Baladino is getting out courtesy of a compassionate leave program, the theory being that he...
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It’s only a game, Bill Littlefield’s National Public Radio program tells us, trying to keep sports in perspective. And for all the deadly serious perspectives of sports commentators and fans, Littlefield’s is perhaps the most realistic. It is certainly the most entertaining. Sometimes funny, sometim...
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Bill Littlefield plays games even as he writes about them, or talks about them on his nationally syndicated NPR radio program, Only a Game. He unabashedly versifies not for profit, or a championship cup, but for fun. He makes no bones about it: these verses are doggerel. From mumblety-peg to the Oly...
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