The Best of Plimpton

Collects the work of the distinguished editor, essayist, sportswriter, and adventurer from over his thirty-five-year career, featuring profiles, essays, articles, and other classics, such as "The Amazing story of Sidd Finch"

Founder of the Paris Review, humorist, adventurer, and contributing editor to Sports Illustrated, Plimpton has selected this anthology of his "best" writing from 35 years of work. Its motif is his "participatory journalism" and how it has enabled him to render more human and accessible such activities as football, baseball, boxing, golf, music, and fireworks; such personalities as John F. Kennedy, George Bush, Leonard Bernstein, Muhammad Ali, Vince Lombardi, Marianne Moore, and William Styron; and such landmarks as Las Vegas, Palm Desert, and Newport, Rhode Island. The pieces range from "Fantasy: Sidd Finch" to "Parody: Truman Capote as Hemingway." Recommended as first-rate belles lettres , to be read in light of Bernstein's description of Plimpton as the "amateur professional."-- Kenneth Mintz, formerly with Bayonne P.L.,
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