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Chad Harbach: The Strategies of Baseball, Friendship, and Love
Author: Frederick McKindra
"…these guys, whether or not they would ever admit it, I know they spend a lot of time looking at one another's bodies, comparing bodies to one another, in very close contact. So you know, whether or not it's ever conceived of as explicitly sexual, there's a lot of sensual material there."
The Art of Fielding (Little, Brown and Company), Chad Harbach's bestselling debut literary jock novel—named one of the NY Times' "10 Best in 2011"—opens with a gesture toward "bromance." Young Henry Skrimshander's aspirations don't stretch much further than working up his next good sweat fielding grounders, until he meets Mike Schwartz—the baseball captain of the fictional Westish College. This intense friendship rescues Henry from laboring alongside his father, and delivers him unto the Westish College campus. Under Mike's watchful tutelage, Henry becomes a baseball player whose feats attract admiration from the sleepy campus and MLB scouts alike.
Then there's Owen Dunne, Henry's first college roommate at Westish—a gift to Residence Life Directors and authors alike. Biracial, handsome and GAY (in capital letters), Owen proves enough of a ballplayer to warrant a jersey number and roster spot for the baseball squad at Westish. Owen too finds love, though unlike the platonic ideal tossing between Henry and Mike, Owen seduces Guert Affenlight, the heretofore straight, middle-aged college President.
Henry's fall from prodigy to pauper follows an accident that both injures and beautifies Owen. Harbach hinges his novel's momentum on whether Henry can recover a love of the game without the support of Mike, or whether any of the other characters can mature beyond the feelings that propelled their initial relationships. .
Below, Lambda ambushes Harbach with questions on his novel's tone, as ripe with homoeroticism as any locker room. And the author gamely replies.
As kid-gloves as I can be about it, just so that I don't run into one of those Michael Chabon Mysteries of Pittsburgh moments, I just wanted to confirm that you are straight.
Yup. (Laughing)
OK. So with that clear, Did you foresee inserting the sort of homoerotic overtones and gay content into this novel when you began writing, both in terms of Affenlight's romantic relationship with Owen, but also with Henry and Mike's intense friendship?
Yeah. Even though it took me a really long time to write the book, I think a lot of the basic elements of the plot and the characters were all things that were there pretty early on.
I started the book with Henry and Mike, and their relationship was really the first germ of the book. I knew that I didn't want the book to be just about baseball. I wasn't interested in writing a sports novel, per se. I knew that I wanted it to be a little broader and wider than that. I think one of the real kind of fortuitous moments in the writing of the book was when Affenlight showed up. I hadn't really planned that out, it was just something where I was writing a scene at a baseball game and I didn't want it to be narrated by a baseball player. I wanted a kind of outsider there, just seeing the action, and President Affenlight's character just sprung up. And then his crush on Owen kind of also just sprung up. But when it happened, it felt right, and it felt really germane to everything that was going on in the book.
I think part of the reason it made sense was also part of the reason why it made sense for me very early on to have the Moby Dick and Melville stuff in the background of the book. Because the book is really in a lot of ways just about the ways that I think that men lean on one another. From a kind of antagonistic relationship, to the very close and in some ways, you know, kind of homosocial relationship that Henry and Mike have. And then including Guert and Owen's homosexual relationship. I think that in a book that's just so much about all the different ways that guys relate to one another, that [explicit homosexual] relationship made sense to me right away when it happened.
Was there ever any temptation to tilt Henry and Mike's relationship? Where they would become aware of how enrapt they were with one another, and turn that physical?
Well, I think they are at some level kind of aware of it. But no, I was never tempted to do that. It really would have…boy, that would have become an entirely different book.
(Laughing) It would be. But one of the things I was really surprised by was your affinity for describing male bodies in a way that was really convincing, and I think fresh. So, you have scenes like Henry returning to campus, and he has this adolescent funk surrounding him, where he's not aware of his need to wear deodorant. I just loved that.
I loved just how damp Mike was throughout the book, like this natural, athletic, like bearish body. I just wondered whether or not you yourself were aware of those tics, because it was very seductive for a gay reader.
(Laughing) Uhh, yeah. I mean, I wasn't necessarily thinking of it in quite that way…but I'm describing these athletes, and it's a cliché to say so, right, but there's a sport's team, and a locker room, I mean that's obviously a pretty charged…(laughing)…you know, and these guys, whether or not they would ever admit it, I know they spend a lot of time looking at one another's bodies, comparing bodies to one another, in very close contact. So you know, whether or not it's ever conceived of as explicitly sexual, there's a lot of sensual material there.
And you as a writer felt capable of accessing that kind of sensual material?
But it didn't feel like something you were reaching toward in the actual process, but it came sort of naturally and fluidly within the process of making the book?
I didn't want to reach for effects. I wanted to stick with what I could really, solidly, do.
So there are several fictional novels described in the book. I've heard critics talk about wanting to actually read one of them—The Art of Fielding—but the book that I'm more interested in, actually, is The Spermsqueezers.
So I just wondered how does that book read in your imagination. Is it like Leslie Fielder's Love and Death in the American Novel or something? Like that was what immediately came to mind, but I was just wondering how you imagined that book.
Well, first off, the title "Spermsqueezers" is based off of a chapter in Moby Dick. I think that comes from, when I was in college; I studied English, I took a seminar that was entirely devoted to Melville. I've studied a lot of 19th century American literature. When I was in college, in the mid-90s, gay studies had really taken off at that time. It was a very prominent part of the humanities curriculum at a lot of places. So I was just kind of speaking of Affenlight as being a kind of early star of that scholarship.
So Affenlight as a gay character was already in your mind when you came up with "Spermsqueezers" the title. Is that true?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did the presence of Melville enter before Affenlight entered as a gay character, because I feel like it just seemed so logical to make Melville the patron saint of the novel, knowing how much material you would have there to mine?
Yeah. I think both those things happened really early, and it was like so long ago that it's really hard to [revisit] the actual process, but I always felt that this whole, that the baseball team, these guys who spend so much time together, and go out, in pursuit of this "obviously" like common goal, that that whole process of a team going through a season was in a lot of ways analogous to the whaling ship and the quest in Moby Dick. That analogy seemed really strong early on. And then of course, a whole lot of kind of homosexual and homoerotic stuff in Moby Dick which all kind of extended to the book, too.
I've noticed that here later, not in the initial reviews, but later, a lot of critics themselves were wondering whether there was enough done to establish these latent homoerotic tendencies in Affenlight. Did you think of that yourself, whether or not you were convinced that this sort of late-homosexuality was really plausible, or if it felt like more of an effect?
Well, I'm not really sure what you…
What that question means? Let me try and rephrase. One critic in particular compared the book to Death in Venice, and the recent book by Michal Cunningham, By Nightfall. All of which have characters who are straight, until later in life and then come into a sort of homosexual desire. Like an unexpected homosexual desire. And so, I was just wondering whether or not it felt, Affenlight and his…and maybe that's a part of it. Maybe it felt so natural that you didn't feel the need to layer in all of these sort of latent things that would've alerted Affenlight if he'd only been aware of them like somewhere in his history. Like, I think people were wondering where those gestures were?
Well I haven't read that piece, so maybe it's a totally valid critique. And I think if I didn't do enough of that, I think it's probably, a function of, for one thing, having multiple story lines going on.
If I had written a novel that was more closely and exclusively focused on Affenlight and Owen's relationship, that probably would have, I assume that would've been richer. On the other hand, it feels natural to me, and I'm very satisfied with the way it's portrayed. I mean, Affenlight's certainly not based on any one in particular, but since I've started writing the book, and since I've started writing that story line, I've met quite a few men to whom this has happened.
I think the circumstances are always different, and of course these aren't always people who I've known a long time, who I can judge the clues and the mystery of all of it. I think it's something that happens, and often seems very surprising to whom it's happening.
One reviewer said that they considered you courageous for including that kind of relationship, the Owen-Affenlight relationship, based off of, and this is me quoting, "the general reluctance of writers and publishers to tackle the subject." So I just wondered whether or not you felt courageous in writing it, or whether or not you would receive that, how you would receive that praise?
I don't know if it's courageous. I don't want to claim "courageous." But I think it is something that is a risk for writers. For any writer who writes about gay relationships, because a lot of people aren't going to want to buy your book. For me, it's just the way that I originally conceived of the story, and the way that I originally conceived of the men, and I never kind of considered doing it any other way.
I was talking to a friend of mine who said his gripe with the book was Owen, actually, the character who is closest to his perspective. I was just curious how you would respond to a gay man rankling at Owen, who gets access to the jockdom of Westish, but also always is at this remove, and in some ways a feminine remove. If I were to pull every quote, there was – "Owen kisses Affenlight on the tip of the penis in a womanly way" and then it's, after they go to a hotel to make love, "Affenlight lays on his side in a quintessentially feminine posture, as with his free hand he caressed Owen's belly which itself felt almost feminine, not muscled, but soft?" I was just wondering whether or not you were aware of those tics?
I would say, you're seeing those scenes through Affenlight's perspective. So what you have there, is Affenlight at this very confusing juncture in his life, he's doing this very confusing stuff, and he's trying to relate it back to his own experience, which has always ever been with women. So like, when he's having the exploratory sexual relationship with Owen, he's always like, "Is this the same as being with a woman? Is it in some ways? How is it different?" So he's always trying to view it, he can only view it, through the prism of his own experience. Which means he's not going to have a totally objective or perfect view of it. It's always going to be a very strange and idiosyncratic view.
Affenlight is this tall, upright, handsome man, very accomplished, President of the school, in this position of power, a real kind of alpha male, but in his courtship with Owen, he's really in the sterotypically feminine role. Owen is really in charge of that whole situation. Affenlight is totally not in control. He's kind of totally at the mercy of Owen because their pursuing this kind of courtship that Owen knows about, and Affenlight knows nothing about. So [Affenlight] is really the kind of deferential, "feminine" one.
Creatively, is that the way that a straight guy would be able to access this sexuality, by always referring it back to their experience with women? Fictionally?
I think it's anxiety on the one hand. It's like "What am I doing?" you know.
If you could, what were the conversations like with your publisher, once they'd gotten a chance to look at the book. I mean, not to assume that there was any reticence for doing that material, but was it acknowledged, did you anticipate there being any sort of questions about it, were there any questions about it, how did people just feel about that part of the story?
My editor, Michael Pietsch, and everybody at Little Brown, didn't want me to kind of make any major changes to the book. Michael was a great editor, and I certainly did a lot of work between the time that I sold the book and the time that it was published. But there was no discussion of doing any kind of major renovation on that or any other topic
I don't know if the gay aspect of the book was ever talked about that much, but there was a sort of running joke that Michael had, that this book, which they had bought, was a combination of three [novels]: it was a "baseball novel," it was a "campus novel," and it was a "gay novel" (laughter). Three things that an ambitious publisher should steer clear of, all wrapped up in one.
I'm more curious to know whether people out on tour have been approaching the book as a "baseball novel" and sort of happening upon the Afflenlight-Owen stuff, and then by extension the "sort of" homo-social stuff, or if you've noticed people are coming in with those expectations and knowing that it's there?
There have been a lot of different responses. The gay element–I kind of snuck it in. Snuck it past, you know what I mean. I think [some] of the readership, if they had really known about it up front, they might not have picked up the book; but they did pick up the book, and they got into the book, and they were really liking it, so they just kind of accepted it.
I've had all different sorts of readers, with all different reactions, but I've definitely noticed that being a kind of theme. People who if you'd asked them beforehand if they wanted to read a book with a kind of gay theme in it they might've said no, but once they got into the book they warmed up to it.
Did you feel like some of the initial press around the book sort of elided that area of the book. I felt like there was a lot, a lot of the stuff that I saw earlier, around the time that the book came out – so much so that when I was initially coming toward the book, I'm also a huge sports fan – I was interested in it because I saw that it was a literary sports book. Had no IDEA that there was this "gay" element coming in, so when I finally came across that tidbit of information, I was like "Oh, hell yeah I'm reading this." But it was curious to me, and I wondered whether or not you'd recognized that too, that somehow that seemed to miss a lot of the initial talk around the book.
I think most all the reviews talked about it, but in a pretty secondary way. Kind of the dominant question was whether, you know, is it a "baseball book" or not a "baseball book." And the gay element was definitely in paragraph eight (laughter).
I forget you're a magazine man, so you understand the hierarchy of those paragraphs.
Yeah. It's not the lead. It's not the lead.
Right. Could it be? Could people attach language like "bromance" to this comfortably, or at least in a way that you would be comfortable with?
It's a book about, largely, about relationships, and largely about "bromantic" relationships, homosexual and heterosexual. I think that is how the book has been described. Which is cool by me.
Well, what do you want to communicate about the way that men relate to one another? Or what's interesting about that at least?
I think what's interesting about it is just how much more complicated and interesting male friendships and relationships are than they're portrayed a lot of the time. There's a point late in the book when Henry and Mike are not speaking to one another…
Ohh…yes, that was when it got thick for me… (laughter)
…and Henry's thinking about this, and he's starting to realize how much he needs Mike and how kind of profound their relationship is, and also how there aren't really, there's not really a vocabulary for this and there's not really a way of thinking about it because I think as a culture we have, we—in a way, the gay community has developed a kind of vocabulary for some of this stuff. But then, outside of that, there's a really kind of reductive description of the way that men interact. There's a moment when Henry kind of realizes that, and he realizes how much he needs Mike, and how little the society at large is able to understand how much he needs Mike.
I don't want to try and boil down the book, but I just think there's a whole kind of crazy spectrum of the way that men feel about each other and interact with each other that doesn't often get described
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Frederick McKindra was born and raised in Little Rock, AR. He graduated with a M.F.A. in Fiction from the New School in NYC.
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James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is an American politician. He was a United States Senator from Virginia from 2007 to 2013. He is also an author and served as Secretary of the Navy from 1987 to 1988 under the Ronald Reagan administration. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Webb announced on November 19, 2014 that he is forming a committee to run for President of the United States in 2016.[1] On July 2, 2015, Webb announced that we will run for president in 2016.[2] He suspended his campaign and withdrew from the election on October 20, 2015.
Webb was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. His father, James Henry Webb, served in the United States Air Force. His mother, Vera Lorraine Hodges, was a housewife. His family descended from Irish-Scots immigrants. Webb went to many schools in the U.S. and in England. He was raised in Bellevue, Nebraska.
Webb graduated from the University of Southern California, Georgetown University Law Center, and from the United States Naval Academy.
Early career[change | change source]
Committee on Veterans Affairs (1977-1981)[change | change source]
Webb in the 1980s
From 1977 to 1981, Webb worked on the staff of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. During this time, he also represented veterans pro bono. Webb also taught at the Naval Academy and was criticized for a 1979 article published in the Washingtonian magazine titled "Women Can't Fight"[3] (see "Senate Election" below).
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (1984-1987)[change | change source]
During the Reagan Administration, Webb served as the nation's first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs from 1984 to 1987.
During his time as Assistant Secretary, Webb sought to reorganize the Marine Corps. He was gravely concerned with the disarray the Marines had fallen into post-Vietnam: drug use, racial infighting, and low morale within the Corps left him with the impression it was no longer America's premier fighting force.
United States Secretary of the Navy (1987-1988)[change | change source]
In 1987, he served as Secretary of the Navy, becoming the first Naval Academy graduate to serve as the civilian head of the Navy. As Navy Secretary, Webb pushed the appointment of Alfred M. Gray Jr. as Commandant of the Marine Corps, hoping that Gray could reshape the Corps into the elite unit it once was.[4]
Webb resigned in 1988 after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy. Webb had wished to increase the Navy to 600 ships. As revealed in The Reagan Diaries, President Ronald Reagan wrote on February 22, 1988: "I don't think Navy was sorry to see him go."[5]
After his resignation, Webb earned his living primarily as an author and filmmaker. He won an Emmy Award for his 1983 PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut.
United States Senator (2007-2013)[change | change source]
On February 7, 2006, he announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the 2006 Senate race against incumbent Virginia Senator George Allen.[6]
In the Democratic primary on June 13, 2006, Webb faced longtime businessman and lobbyist Harris Miller. Webb won with 53.5% of the vote, in a race with low turnout.[7] On January 4, 2007, Webb was sworn into the 110th U.S. Senate, accompanied by Sen. John Warner, R-Va., a fellow former Secretary of the Navy; and former Virginia Democratic Sen. Chuck Robb, who held the same seat before losing to Allen.
Jim Webb with his son Jimmy and George W. Bush, March, 2008
On November 15, 2006, Senate majority-leader-in-waiting Harry Reid assigned Webb to three committees: the committees on Foreign Relations, Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services.[8]
Webb's official senate portrait
On January 23, 2007, Webb delivered the Democratic response to the President's State of the Union address, focusing on the economy and Iraq.[9] Webb's speech drew positive reviews, and was regarded as one of the stronger State of the Union responses in recent memory.[10] Webb, a decorated war veteran, spoke of his family's military past, his own passionate attachment to the military, and the way in which previous presidents had always attempted to ensure that all precautions had been taken when sending young Americans into harm's way.
On August 14, 2009 Webb visited Myanmar (Burma), seeing its junta's leader, Gen. Than Shwe, and also the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest. During Webb's visit with Than Shwe, Webb negotiated the release and deportation of an imprisoned American, John Yettaw.[11]
On February 9, 2011, Webb announced that he would not run for re-election of his Senate seat in 2012.[12][13]
2016 presidential campaign[change | change source]
Main article: Jim Webb presidential campaign, 2016
On November 19, 2014, Webb announced the formation of an exploratory committee in preparation for a possible bid for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in 2016.[14][15] He made the announcement via a video posted on his website, as well as on YouTube.[16]
On June 15, 2015, Webb announced he would make a decision regarding a presidential bid by the end of the month.[17] He made a formal announcement on July 2, 2015.[18] He suspended his campaign and withdrew from the election on October 20, 2015.[19]
Personal life[change | change source]
Webb married Barbara Samorajczyk in 1968. They divorced in 1979. Then, Webb married Jo Ann Kruckar in 1981. They divorced in 2004. Webb is currently married to Hong Lee since 2005. Webb has five children and a step-child.
↑ "Jim Webb: No to VP, door open for 2016". Politico.com. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
↑ "Democrat Jim Webb joins 2016 White House race". Fox News.
↑ Webb, James (November 1979). "Women Can't Fight". Washingtonian. Washingtonian Magazine, Inc. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
↑ Ricks, Thomas E. (1997). Making the Corps. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-684-83109-0.
↑ Reagan, Ronald (2007). The Reagan Diaries. HarperCollins. p. 580. ISBN 978-0-06-087600-5.
↑ Shear, Michael D. (2006-02-08). "Reagan Navy Secretary Will Run for U.S. Senate". Washington Post. p. B05. Retrieved 2006-10-29.
↑ "Official Results: Primary Election, June 13, 2006". Commonwealth of Virginia. Archived from the original on 2006-06-20. Retrieved 2006-06-19.
↑ Maze, Rick (November 15, 2006). "Webb to serve on key Iraq-related Senate panels". Air Force Times.
↑ "Webb's 'aggressive' Democratic response to Bush 'State of Union' speech [includes transcript of Webb's response]". The Raw Story. January 23, 2007. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
↑ Kurtz, Howard (January 25, 2005). "The Long Goodbye". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
↑ "Senator wins release of US prisoner in Myanmar". Associated Press. August 15, 2009.
↑ Geraghty, Jim (February 9, 2011). "As Predicted, Jim Webb Won't Run for Reelection in 2012". National Review. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012.
↑ Smith, Ben. "Webb won't seek reelection". Politico.
↑ Berman, Russell (November 20, 2014). "President Jim Webb?". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
↑ Haberman, Maggie (2014-11-20). "Jim Webb launches 2016 committee". Politico. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
↑ Haberman, Maggie (November 20, 2014). "Jim Webb launches 2016 committee". Politico. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
↑ Weiner, Rachel (2015-06-15). "Jim Webb to decide on presidential campaign in next two weeks". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
↑ Rachel Weiner (July 2, 2015). "Jim Webb announces 2016 presidential bid". Washington Post.
↑ "Jim Webb drops out of Democratic primary race". news.yahoo.com.
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Yes, it's Les Chappell & Wyndham Evans on a rainy night at Burnden Park.
November 1976. Swans beaten 5-1 away in a League Cup replay at Bolton. 4 visible players - 2 Swans, 2 from Bolton, the latter 2 are an ex-Man Utd & Scottish winger in the middle, the other far right, a future English international.
So what colours were those striped away shirts ? BTW, that's not a quiz question - I don't know the answer
Can you name the players with Harry
I think Tom Kiley is the tallest in the centre,but the others I would have to search for.
Les Chappell is one ,
Is the other one Wyndham
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Looking at this again, I don't think those are our shirts. I hadn't been to my first away match if it was 1976 but, still, there's no club badge on the left- and our home shirts did have a badge in 1976.
My guess is that they played in some borrowed shirts for some reason.
November 2nd 1976 was the date , if you look closely at the photo you can see a badge which looks like a Swan ,
Au contraire! It was an odd kit, but it was our 2nd kit that season. The "Bible" of football at the time confirms it (enclosed), but I also recall seeing the Swans at the first away game that season, a League Cup encounter at Newport, and my friends booing a bunch of players entering the Somerton Park pitch in green and red striped jerseys... until they realised they were in fact the Swansea players.
That's brilliant, thanks @niallo11 ;
I recognise the layout of our page from the Rothman's Football Year Book - I use to have the 1973 version but no longer.
In hindsight, I do now have some recollection of red and green stripes but maybe that's only because you've said it :-)
Great research, thank you.
The picture was taken from Richard Shepherd's book, Images of Wales-Swansea Town Football Club 1912-1964.
An excellent collection of photographs and historical information on the football club, but did have the occasional wrong name in the player line-ups.
Left to right- Richard has listed the following-Edgar Newell, Billy Thomas, Harry Griffiths, Jack Parry, Tom Kiley, George James, Ray Powell and Cyril Beech. I have my doubts that Billy Thomas could actually be John O'Sullivan.
Over to you Niall, what do you think?
I was at the first game Swans vs Bolton 1 - 1 draw , sat or stood in the wing stand ,
We were in Division 4 they were in Division 2 , lost the replay 5 - 1 , Robbie scored , nearly 44 years ago ,
ColinNorthampton
That pic of a Rothmans book makes me very nostalgic.
have just got into this thread. The Chesterfield game earlier was my second ever. About 20 years ago I was hit in a relatively mild car crash ( as in no one hurt). The guy who'd hit me was a decent bloke so we went in a pub to sort it all out. Turned out he played for Chesterfield that night. He told me Tosh sent a crate of champers into their dressing room. Their manager Arthur Cox made it clear that any player who so much as touched it wouldn't be there next season.
Colin: Thomas & O'Sullivan feature in the same team squad photo elsewhere in that book. They're very similar stature & looks, but I'd agree with you that O'Sullivan bears the closer resemblance. In that picture, what seems unusual now is how small our 'keeper Jack Parry is: who'd have a 5' 9" goalie nowadays!
I can't wait for the club shop to re-open so that I can get my hands on the new training kit.
everyone's mum was a knitter by the look of it.
Keepers dreaded rain as the heavy knitted top, felt like an armoured jacket by half-time!!
Team photo from first year at the Liberty
deekay
Was that the first attempt at social distancing ?
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Nice one. No doubt it's something Kenny said!!
Plenty of coverage in the media recently regarding a potential restructuring of the lower leagues to reduce the travelling times and expense of away matches, just imagine what it was like in December 1953 when the Swans played at Barrow in the FA Cup with the supporters train leaving at 6-30pm the day before.
This was the game when Barrow posted their record attendance- an amazing 16,874 from a resident population of about 60,000. I wonder how many Swans supporters made that trip North.
How times change. If they do end up promoted to the league again next season after an absence of 48 years I expect they will be pleased with anything over 4,000.
Chris_Sharman
that has to b the worst team photo in history!!
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I'll see you & raise you, Chris - this bunch has to be the most unenthusiastic lot anyone ever clapped eyes on!
League Cup Winner & Swansea City manager.
That would be Colin Appleton captained Leicester City winning the league Cup 1964 ,
Really good shout, Malc, but incorrect!
Could it be Billy McCandless ?
Oh, Frankie, Frankie, Frank Burrows
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Shelf Reflection: Andrew Pippos
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Songs of Experience and Innocence
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Shelf Reflection is a monthly series where we explore the bookshelves and reading habits of our featured First Book Club authors.
This month's reflection is from Andrew Pippos, whose debut novel Lucky's (Picador), a story about family, migration, a restaurant chain and a fire that changed everything, is our November pick. Stay tuned for more on our website and podcast later this month!
Andrew's bookshelves. 'there is an attempt at order, but it's half-hearted and soon abandoned.' Image: Supplied
I recently finished Emmanuel Carrere's Lives Other Than My Own (trans. Linda Coverdale). The book has been described as a memoir but Carrere is not the main subject of the book; he is cleverly occluded in a way that reminded me of the narrators of Rachel Cusk's Outline trilogy and certain W.G. Sebald novels. The story begins with Carrere's account of the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, before he narrows his focus on a couple whose daughter dies that Boxing Day. The purpose of the book is soon established: Lives Other Than My Own closely observes the space that a person leaves behind in the world.
After the tsunami, Carrere returns to France and learns that his sister-in-law, Juliette, is dying. The rest of Lives is a portrait of Juliette—one that Carrere constructs after her death. There are many deeply moving scenes in the post-tsunami sections, including the moment when the terminally ill Juliette admits she has trouble accepting that her youngest daughter will not consciously remember her. She asks a friend, Phillipe, to take candid pictures:
Phillipe said he would and he did. But what was appalling, he remembers, was that the simple gesture of getting out his camera and pointing it at her began to mean: You are going to die.
The book is a series of memorials, too. I would recommend Lives to anyone, but especially to someone struggling with the task of loving someone who is no longer alive.
I'm a chaotic reader… I avoid re-reading some books, because I don't want to remember them differently.
Borrowed or bought?
I bought the book after seeing it on The New York Times's list of the Best 50 Memoirs in the Past 50 Years. I read lists. I often dislike lists but I read them.
What kind of reader are you?
I'm a chaotic reader. For example: I started Lives Other Than My Own but stopped midway through and read an American novel, then I started Carrere again and stopped about 50 pages later and read Ronnie Scott's brilliant novel The Adversary (Editor's note: read Ronnie's Shelf Reflection and our First Book Club discussion on the KYD Podcast), and then I finally finished Lives. At no point did I think Carrere's book was anything less than a masterpiece.
Most of my reading in 2019 was re-reading: I visited many old favourites, including Stendahl's Charterhouse of Parma, Joseph Roth's essays, Cynthia Ozick's The Puttermesser Papers and Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red. I avoided some books, because I don't want to remember them differently (e. g. Great Expectations, Sentimental Education, Murphy).
What does your book collection look like?
I have several bookshelves and they're all a mess. The picture above tells the story: there is an attempt at order—Fagles' translations are together—but it's half-hearted and soon abandoned.
I have several bookshelves and they're all a mess… there is an attempt at order but it's half-hearted and soon abandoned.
What's one book you found critical to the writing of your own book?
Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma is the novel that comes to mind. I first read Charterhouse in 2003 and still reread it from time to time: to be specific, I read the Waterloo sequence. Those 70 or 80 pages are perfect. At the outset, the novel's quixotic young protagonist, Fabrice, leaves his home at Lake Como to join Napoleon's army, only to reach this goal as the French army is retreating from Waterloo. The rest of the book is different in tone and pace: the novel changes as Fabrice grows up. But those early chapters are exhilarating. And the 'canteen-woman' is surely one of the great minor characters in the 19th century novel.
There are several strands of narrative in Lucky's and some of those plotlines might be described as 'literary adventure'. I believe the greatest book in that tradition is Charterhouse.
Lucky's is available from your local independent bookseller.
Andrew Pippos spent part of his childhood getting underfoot in his family's Greek-Australian café, an experience that inspired his first novel Lucky's (Picador). A former journalist, Andrew has a doctorate in Creative Writing and tutors at the University of Technology, Sydney. He lives in Sydney's inner west.
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Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Saturday, 30 December 2017
An Iranian cleric had issued a fatwa to members of a terrorist cell which kidnapped Saudi Judge Mohammed al-Jirani over a year ago, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday.
The fatwa ordered killing and burying Jirani 48 hours after he was kidnapped in Qatif province, said Asharq Al-Awsat sources.
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Q: Change attributes to a selected part of text in EditText I've searched something around here but nothing came up.
I'd like to have an EditText in which I can change attributes like color or dimension of a selected part.
I've already tried with the spannable thing, from another question:
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I assume that I have to assign it to some onClick method..Also my problems are those two number, I should put some "selectedText" there instead I think.
Is this even possible?

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I'd like to have an EditText in which I can change attributes like color or dimension of a selected part

If you want the user to "change attributes... of a selected part", my recently-updated RichEditText offers that. I do not have color or text size going yet, though, as those will need a toolbar (rather than my current action mode support).

Also my problems are those two number, I should put some "selectedText" there instead I think

You are probably looking for getSelectionStart() and getSelectionEnd().

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Why We Love Bahamas
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An island of resorts
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Paradise for Beach Lovers
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The "Big Game Fishing" Capital, Bimini hosts several worldwide fishing tournaments every year, and its fleet of fast deep-sea trawlers head out to sea almost every day in search of tuna, marlin, barracuda and other pelagic species in the deep, warm waters of the Gulf Stream. Ernest Hemingway, for one, loved the place. It's also a mecca for scuba divers, with plenty of underwater wrecks, and snorkelers, with miles of reef trails to swim.
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But out on some of the smaller islands, Eleuthera, Exuma, Abacos, Andros and Bimini, life is slower and much quieter. The gentle trade winds rustle the coconut palms, the brilliant aquamarine water laps against the pinkish beach, and the sun follows its daily arc across the heavens from dawn until the green flash occurs at sunset.
The Bahamas is a sportsman's paradise, with world-class golf courses, some of the best fishing in the world, miles of ocean reefs to dive and bike paths to pedal. Culturally, the islands are a little bit British–they drive on the left and wear wigs to court–and a little bit Caribbean, with a lilting accent, a love of family and friends, and a "no worries" attitude towards life. And The Bahamas is made to order for romance, a relaxed, hedonistic celebration of life.
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English is the official language of The Bahamas. Native creole is also spoken in some places.
The currency in The Bahamas is the Bahamian dollar, which is kept on par with the U.S. Dollar. US currency is generally accepted everywhere on the island.
The electrical current is the same as in the United States: 120v, 60Hz, AC.
Internet connections and WiFi spots are found throughout the country. Most major hotels provide good accessibility.
Passport/Immigration
Residents of the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom do not require visas to enter The Bahamas. A passport and return or onward air ticket is required. Other nationalities may require a visa, obtainable from the British consulate in their country.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends using bottled water for drinking and ice making.
Bermuda is in the Eastern (US) time zone. When it is noon in New York, it is noon in The Bahamas.
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Things To Do in Bahamas
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While the term "regatta" usually connotes sailing competitions, in the Bahamas it primarily refers to the concerts and food festivals that go along with the traditional Bahamian celebrations of boat building and sloop sailing. The National Family Island Regatta in George Town, Exuma is the largest of them all, with sailing races all day and lively entertainment in the festival village at night. Held annually every spring.


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Isn't it strange that some of the most significant news are often missed in the cacophony of the 'Breaking News' channels?
On the same day, two game-changing pieces of information appeared in the Chinese media. Yet, they just looked innocuous.
The first one was about the 6th Tibet Work Forum. Was it held in Beijing or in the sea-resort of Beidaihe, where the top leaders escaped the unpleasant Beijing weather? I shall come back to it later.
The second information was the PLA/Civil integration for the management of the Lhasa airport; it has serious strategic implications for India, which is struggling to build some infrastructure in Arunachal and Ladakh.
Xinhua officially announced the vital airport integration to "strengthen aviation safety and combat support capabilities."
A joint statement from the People Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) and General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC) said that the integration will include joint maintenance of airport support facilities, joint flight safety support and joint airport management.
Interestingly, the Lhasa Gongkar Airport in Tibet will be the first of the two pilot airports to implement the PLA/civil 'integration' (with the Sunan Shuofang Airport in Wuxi in Jiangsu province). The job should be completed during the second half of 2015.
The PLAAF/CAAC circular further affirms that "all the civil-military airports will conduct strengthened integration next year."
To flood the Tibetan plateau with millions of Chinese tourists, a good infrastructure is required. Airports and the railway line are the backbones of a booming tourism in Tibet. The same infrastructure could be crucial in case of conflict with India; integration of the airport management was therefore required.
Once the Lhasa Gonggar Airport, located about 62 kilometres from the Tibetan capital has its joint PLA/Civil management, the other airports on the plateau will follow.
A couple of years ago, Xinhua had announced that the airport in Chamdo (known as the Bangda Airport) was reopened after major repairs. Xinhua reported then: "The Bangda Airport, the world's highest-altitude civilian airport currently in use, is expected to resume operations." It had temporarily been closed to repair a 19-year-old runway.
Also strategically important is the Nyingtri Mainling Airport, situated just north of the McMahon Line, the border with India; it serves Bayi, the main PLA garrison in the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Ngari Gunsa Airport already used by the PLA posted opposite the Indian troops in Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, started its operations in 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport in Tibet after Lhasa, Nyingchi and Chamdo airports.
Shigatse, the second city in Tibet is served by the railway line since August last year but also has the Shigatse Peace Airport, called Shigatse Air Base.
It was solely for military use until 2010, when a 100 million US $ expansion was completed.
The 4,411-metre-high Kardze Daocheng Yading airport, built in Kardze in Sichuan province was put into operation in 2014 (a year earlier than planned!). The Sichuan authorities planned to bring one million tourists to the area by 2015. But as important as tourism, the airport facilitates the transportation of fresh troops from the Military Area Command in Chengdu to Kardze prefecture. Kardze has been one of the most restive areas on the Tibetan plateau. With one stone, two birds are killed: the Tibetan protesters can be 'pacified' in no time and the deluge of Chinese tourists brings hefty revenues.
Another airport has come up in the Nagchu Prefecture of Tibet. Completed in 2014, the Nagchu Airport is now the highest airport in the world at 4,436 m.
The Modi Sarkar is aware of all this, but while China speedily builts Tibet's infrastructure (using the perfect excuse of having to cater for millions of Han tourists), India develops its border areas at snail's pace, struggling to create a semblance of infrastructure. It is true that the terrain is far more difficult in the Indian side, but so are the bureaucratic hurdles.
In Arunachal for example, the process indeed needs perseverance and an unshakable will to change the tide. Despite the declared resolve from the present Government, it may take years for proper roads to reach the remotest districts of Arunachal Pradesh…and stop the Chinese 'visits'.
It is not an easy challenge, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has realised that the North-East cannot be developed from Delhi. In his latest monthly radio programme Maan ki Baat, he announced that he was "deputing Central Government officials to find solutions to problems being faced by the region".
One of the decisions taken by the Union Government has been to modify the guidelines of the Border Area Development Programme drafted some 10 years ago. According to the new notification, "The main objective of the BADP is to meet the special developmental needs and well being of the people living in remote and inaccessible areas situated near the international border and to saturate the border areas with the entire essential infrastructure …(with a) participatory approach."
I mentioned another information released by Xinhua the same day about the 6th Tibet Work Forum, which decides the fate of Tibet (as well as Tibet's southern neighbours) for the next 5/10 years
The opening of the Forum just took place in Beidaihe, the sea-resort where the Communist leadership retires during the hot summer.
Xinhua reported that top Chinese leaders have met "to discuss economic and social development in Tibet, and how to ensure the autonomous region achieves prolonged stability."
The statement of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) further noted: "Safeguarding national unity and strengthening ethnic unity should be highlighted in work involving Tibet." The so-called stability is undoubtedly foremost in the mind of the leadership. The statement added: "Efforts should be made to unswervingly carry out the anti-separatism battle, promote the region's economic and social development, safeguard and improve people's welfare, and enhance exchanges and integration of different ethnic groups."
The Politburo (or probably an extended Politburo) is said to have agreed that "strengthening Tibetan infrastructure, helping it foster competitive industries while ensuring environmental protection are the means to achieve marked improvement in living conditions and more social cohesion," were the priorities for the restive region.
The PLA/Civil integration of the airports in Tibet will certainly help Beijing to 'strengthen the infrastructure' and consolidate its presence on the Plateau.
To give an example of the seriousness of the situation for India, it is enough to quote the case of Metok, the last Tibetan village before the Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra enters Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.
China Tibet Online explains: "The remoteness of the location, together with other reasons such as climate and geological condition, and economic development, led to the isolation of the region. Having no way linking it to the outside world until the end of 2013, Metok is the last county in China to have its road."
Historically, this was a mythic place; only a very few intrepid pilgrims had visited the 'hidden valley'. Now, Zhang Yuhui, an executive deputy director of Metok County affirmed that the income from tourism in Metok (which has 11,000 inhabitants only) has reached 1.6 billion US $, just in the matter of 2 years.
China Tibet Online says: "Going to Metok had once been only the privilege of the 'brave' before the traffic was improved. After the opening of the road to Metok, self-driving travel became popular apart from hiking. Visitors from various places were attracted to this beautiful place."
Can you believe that this tiny (though strategic valley) hosted 70,000 visitors in 2013, the first year the road was opened. It grew to 90,000 in 2014 and the Chinese government expects 130,000 visitors in 2015.
And this just a few kilometers north of the Indian border!
No other comment is required.
The Modi Sarkar has indeed to hurry up and undertake the development of the border on a war footing.
Posted by Claude Arpi at 6:31 AM
Labels: Airport, Arunachal Pradesh, Infrastructure, Metok, Tibet
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Claude Arpi is born in Angoulême (France) in 1949. His real quest started in 1972 with a journey to the Indian Himalayas. Since then he has been an enthusiastic student of the history of Tibet, China and the subcontinent. Claude Arpi regularly writes on the history, geopolitics and environment of the region as well as on the Indo-French relations.


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Somewhere between tedium and rage
May 20, 2021 Thomas
I love the novels of Barbara Pym immensely. Barbara Pym could make mundane things endlessly fascinating. The author of this bio could not. It was rather a bit of a snooze.
The 'Miss Pym' construction was used far too frequently and was cutesy in a way that diminishes the subject. From the title, to the text, to chapter titles, to photo captions. It was too much.
That Pym had Nazi sympathies is a fact that the author justly writes about. However, the way she writes about Pym's Nazi boyfriend and her infatuation with Nazi Germany was also a little too cute and casual than is seemly in the 21st century.
"Pym was mesmerized by the handsome blackshirt…" Not sure that adjective is called for unless clearly qualified as being Pym's perception, which is borne out by the block quote that follows it. Why did Byrne call him handsome?
"Barbara was…swept up in the excitement of the Third Reich…" Maybe swap out excitement for propaganda.
A chapter title: "In which Fraulein Pym falls for a Handsome Nazi" Perhaps the author doesn't need to excoriate Pym on every page for being a Nazi sympathizer, but she also doesn't have to make light of it either.
"It was a spectacular event, the Nazi Party had pulled out all the stops." Did they really Paula? We must find out who their party planner is.
Another chapter title: "In which our Heroine goes to Germany for the third time and sleeps with her Nazi" Oh how cute! He's her Nazi.
And then in describing the douchebaggery of Pym's English love interests Byrne writes this: "…she was headed back to Germany, where she was sure of receiving better treatment at the hands of her blackshirt boyfriend." Really?
When it comes to Pym's penchant for falling in love with gay men, I don't know how annoyed I should be with Pym or with Byrne for making it seem like Pym's driving force was simply to move from one infatuation to another. I'd like to think that Pym had more going on in her life than just that. Maybe it was the author's over reliance on personal journals that makes Pym seem like an emotional simpleton who couldn't pass the Bechdel Test if her life depended on it.
Pym's life was Pym's life, if that's who she was, so be it. But Byrne's way of writing about 'homosexuals' got to be annoying in the extreme. Try this one: "She was especially interested in his homosexual relationship with Eric Oliver." Guess what Miss Byrne, it's just a relationship. Maybe you meant to say romantic or sexual or something else. Pym can use antiquated language, she's dead, and she wrote those lines 60 years ago. But Byrne is only two years older than I am. Too young to be that oblivious. You'd think she was 107.
I will end this where I started it, Pym's bio didn't have to be this boring.
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dfarabee May 20, 2021 / 9:30 pm
I'm impressed you finished the book. Disappointing to not have any thoughtful consideration of Pym's life and choices. I've only read two of Pym's novels but i really like those and will savor the others of hers. Anyway, thank you for reading the bio and writing the post… so I can skip it.
lauratfrey May 21, 2021 / 12:30 am
I think I remember you tweeting about this and yeah, those quotes. Yikes!
Aileen May 21, 2021 / 7:29 am
Oh ugh, I ordered this because I was so excited about a new Barbara Pym biography. (It hasn't arrived yet.) I was bracing myself for the Pym/nazi connection but it sounds like Paula Byrne is writing this like a tabloid expose.
Karen K. May 21, 2021 / 12:20 pm
Well that's disappointing, I was really looking forward to this one. Harrumph.
Desperate Reader May 21, 2021 / 2:35 pm
Did Pym retain her Nazi sympathies during and after the war? Plenty of people had far right sympathies in the 1930's, plenty of people grew out of it when faced with the reality of what happened, and even then generations deep prejudices don't disappear overnight.. Plenty of people make poor relationship decisions based on sexual attraction as well – and don't necessarily grow out of it. I really don't want to read this book.
Liz Dexter May 22, 2021 / 7:05 am
Oh dear, that "homosexual relationship" thing is very annoying (I just got extremely annoyed with that in a book I was reviewing myself, for another place than my blog; it was "at least" written by someone fairly elderly and bufferish. Most people I know loved this but it does sound a bit twee and a bit light on the whole Nazi thing. I will still read it but I will bear this in mind, too!
Ruthiella May 23, 2021 / 5:54 pm
Yikes! I was really looking forward to reading this as a Pym fan. That fandom is in large part thanks to you and your blog too, BTW. I will probably skip it now. I still have A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym by Hazel Holt to read first anyway.
joyfulee May 30, 2021 / 1:23 pm
I made it thru Chapter 12 and don't think I'll go farther. The dissection of her sex life in college is stomach-churning. And I'd been so excited to read the book – huzzah to you for making it through the book!
bjoerncologne June 6, 2021 / 1:43 pm
Of course the author has to stress the homosexual aspect of the relationship(s) as this is an integral part of Pym's biography and her way of dealing with gays. So I don't see any problem with this facet and the emphasis on it.
The Nazi parts are actually a bit weird, especially from a German perspective. But the author writes from Pym's point of view and therefore it might make sense. P. Byrne discusses this issue very convincingly in her Afterword.
And this 'Miss Pym' nonsense: yes it's a bit too much but as she uses this mainly in the chapter headings I think it's ok.
All in all a very nice and critical biography with a bulk of new information which I liked a lot. You all should read it if you're a fan of Barbara Pym.
Thomas June 26, 2021 / 8:40 am
But that's just it, I am a fan of Barbara Pym and I hated this biography. I don't think the author should have been writing from Pym's point of view, especially as it relates to the Nazi connections. Byrne's choice of language in that regard was way too casual and glib, and in my opinion inexcusable. Her handling of homosexuality was less problematic for me but Byrne's choice of language was what annoyed me, not the fact that she detailed the part of Pym's life.
Scott (Furrowed Middlebrow) June 16, 2021 / 9:59 pm
"Homosexual relationship" is like the author feels the words should be whispered…


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