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17 hours ago · Subscribe to The Saturday Paper. for less than $2.20 a week. SUBSCRIBE NOW. Get the news you need. to your inbox. As a New York blue blood turned writer, George Plimpton’s sports journalism was life itself: centred on entertainment, humour and his own, often hapless, participation.
4 days ago · The Lions from this period are perhaps best remembered for writer George Plimpton’s short tenure with the team as the “last-string” quarterback during the 1963 preseason, an experience recounted in his book Paper Lion (1966) and later in a movie of the same name. Detroit qualified for only one playoff appearance in the 24 years between ...
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5 days ago · Founded in Paris by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton in 1953, The Paris Review began with a simple editorial mission: “Dear reader,” William Styron wrote in a letter in the inaugural issue, “The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim ...
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4 days ago · The book that made a legend, and a classic of sports writing - George Plimpton's Paper Lion is published in the UK on its 50th anniversary. In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions' pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism.
3 days ago · Lorin Stein, the current editor of the Paris Review, has been described by literary agent Ira Silverberg in a New York Times profile piece as “the best thing to happen to The Paris Review since George Plimpton.” That rather bold statement is not the least undeserved.
5 days ago · Five Prose Poems. Robert Bly. Issue 65, Spring 1976. When I wake, the sheep are eating apple peels just outside the screen, the trees are heavy, soaked, and hushed, the sun just rising. All seems calm, and yet somewhere inside I am not calm.
3 days ago · The Plimpton Playing Fields are used for various outdoor sports. They are named in honor of alumnus and trustee George Arthur Plimpton (1873). Phelps Stadium is used for football, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey. It was converted into turf surface in 2006.
