Posts Tagged ‘cricket’

Making the Americans read about cricket

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland, continues to be the darling of the literary press. This time the Daily Telegraph talks him up….I have a sneaking feeling the British press like him so much because he managed to make the Americans read a book about cricket.

“All my books were out of print when Netherland was bought so I was practically dead and buried as a writer,” he says. And then came extravagant praise in The New York Times and The New Yorker. “My life changed in the space of four days. It was amazing.”

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Bill Frindall dead at 69

Friday, January 30th, 2009

The death of Bill Frindall removes another familiar voice from my childhood. Listening to Test Match Special on the radio was a part of my life until moving to North America (Sadly, the BBC blocks me from listening on the Internet because I’m in Canada). Amazing that a cricket statistician should be so loved. Bill Frindall wrote and edited a huge number of cricket books and he is going to be much missed in the cricketing world. As a boy, I was given a Playfair cricket annual every year.

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