Word: plimpton
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...alas, I will have to wait for another day to fashion myself into a legitimate two-pitch pitcher—no Plimpton this week. The elements intervened, causing Harvard’s game against Northeastern to preempt the Wednesday practice I intended to appear at. Haviland did not make the trip, staying behind to prepare for his Saturday start in Game One of the Ivy Championship Series, so he could not provide counsel...
Other than George Plimpton, John Hodgman may have been the only boy who ever grew up wanting to be George Plimpton. "Here was an extremely talented writer and public intellectual who was not averse to having fun in his life," says Hodgman. "To asthmatic children in the world, those Intellivision ads he did were a beacon. There was a tweediness out there that I could be a part...
Like his idol, Hodgman, 34, has forged a career as an urbane literary figure and satirist of the urbanely literate. A Yale grad and former book agent, he has had a short story (edited by Plimpton) published in the Paris Review and writes nonfiction for the New York Times Magazine. But listen to the commentaries he gives as a resident expert on The Daily Show and you'll discover that one of the deadliest potential consequences of global warming is an unfrozen-caveman crime wave. Crack the spine of his faux atlas, The Areas of My Expertise...
...discovers she has no real place in this new world. In another story, "Immortality," the rise and fall of a professional Mao impersonator comes to symbolize China's astounding past century, from decaying empire to totalitarian nightmare to capitalist powerhouse. The story, which won the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for first fiction, is narrated collectively by the citizens of the impersonator's home village, as if all of them are speaking in a single voice. The effect is as mesmerizing as an incantation, and a reminder of the constant presence of the communal in China. When Mao scoffs...
Regrettably, without the legendary George Plimpton to report it, the story just isn’t, and never will be, the same...