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November 3, 2009
Wrestling with the Devil
It took a Faustian bargain for Mildred Burke to break the gender barrier in wrestling. Her biographer, Jeff Leen, tells Gelf about her forgotten legend.
Arts
October 21, 2009
Reality Bites, Probably Tongue-Kisses, Too
Troy Patterson, TV critic at Slate, watches the worst in American entertainment so that you don't have to.
Books
October 21, 2009
A Sacrilicious Simpsons Family Biographer
John Ortved's The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized Biography has rankled the show's brass, and not without cause.
Full article » | by Jake Rake
Food
October 12, 2009
Taming of the Brew
Physicist and homebrewer Mark Denny explains how mainstream beer and the macrobrewers who make it lost their way.
Sports
October 11, 2009
Buzz Bissinger Goes Back to School to Co-Write LeBron's Autobiography
'Friday Night Lights' author Buzz Bissinger goes back to highschool, this time to help LeBron tell the story of his youth.
Sports
September 26, 2009
Why Do Men Need a League of Their Own?
Jennifer Ring, political scientist and mother of an outstanding female baseball player, wants to see the national pastime opened up to everyone in the nation, regardless of gender
Full article » | by Garey Ris
Sports
September 26, 2009
The Shy Showman
For decades, Satchel Paige pitched thousands of times around the world, bewildering opponents and flummoxing anyone who sought to learn his story. A new biography sets out to sort fact from legend.
Full article » | by Max Lakin
Sports
September 26, 2009
The Sportswriting Machine
Joe Posnanski, chronicler of the Big Red Machine, is just as freewheeling and prolific as his subjects, knocking out thousands of words in magazine and newspaper articles, blog posts, and, yes, Gelf interviews
Full article » | by David Roth
Sports
September 24, 2009
Nobody's Pawn
Over the past 30 years, Eliot Weiss has patiently built one of the greatest chess programs in the country
Books
September 24, 2009
Gossip Girl, Interrupted
Precocious memoirist and prep school malcontent Hannah Friedman assures Gelf self-loathing is hardly unique to public education.
Full article » | by Max Lakin
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