Maybe Next Year

Sports fans are a devoted bunch, win or lose. Millions sit in the wind and the cold, watching their team slip ever further from the playoffs--only to come back for more next year. What is it that keeps them going? This book, published just before the Cubs ended the longest active drought in pro sports, features more than 100 loyal followers of 23 teams who explain their reasons for never giving up. They tell stories of devotion and determination: the Toronto Maple Leafs fans who got married, on the ice, before a game; the Sacramento Kings supporters who fought to keep their team from leaving town; and the fans of Mississippi State football with their never-say-die cowbells. For these fans, optimism outweighs disappointment.

Advertisements for Myself, a diverse and freewheeling tour through Mailer’s early career, covers the many subjects with which he’d grapple for the rest of his life: sex, race, politics, literature, and the systems of power that shape American life. There are lists, interviews, poems, confessions, postscripts, two Tables of Contents (one chronological, one thematic), undergraduate short stories, fragments from a one-act play—and of course, Mailer’s classic, groundbreaking essays, including “The White Negro (Superficial Reflections on the Hipster)”, perhaps Mailer’s most prescient early polemic, and “Mind of an Outlaw”, which lends its name to Mailer’s latest, and first posthumous, collection. A playful, unclassifiable snapshot of American culture at the end of the fifties, Advertisements for Myself, is also a cornerstone of Mailer’s long and prolific career: “In this volume,” declared The New York Times in 1959, “Mr. Mailer, at 36, shows once again that he is the most versatile if not the most significant talent of his generation.”

Sports fans are a devoted bunch, win or lose. Millions sit in the wind and the cold, watching their team slip ever further from the playoffs--only to come back for more next year. What is it that keeps them going? This book, published just before the Cubs ended the longest active drought in pro sports, features more than 100 loyal followers of 23 teams who explain their reasons for never giving up. They tell stories of devotion and determination: the Toronto Maple Leafs fans who got married, on the ice, before a game; the Sacramento Kings supporters who fought to keep their team from leaving town; and the fans of Mississippi State football with their never-say-die cowbells. For these fans, optimism outweighs disappointment.

"On a rainy Black Friday in the city of San Francisco, a cozy coffe shop serves sancuary and lattes at the assistance of a lone employee: a kind, young woman with red hair and purple eyes. ... Trickling inside the cafe one by one, the guests soon discover that each of them has something in common -- something that will bring the escaped chaos of the shopping frenzy right into their comfortable hideaway."--Cover

The author recounts her experiences growing up in North Dakota from 1928 to 1937 the years of the Dust bowl and Depression

Includes summarized reports of many bee-keeper associations.

Marley Prescott's father vanished. Then her sister left her son on Marley's doorstep and disappeared into the night on the back of a Harley with a man Marley had never seen before. With the child dependant on her, Marley loaded her car with supplies and headed to Sturgis, South Dakota for the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally where painting leathers during that one feverish week could earn her enough money to support herself and her child for months. Rally with its undercurrent of sex and danger made Marley uneasy and restless long before she met Luke and long before she learned he shared a past with her sister and a claim to the child she loved as her own. But when murder stuck close to home and the evidence pointed to someone close to her, Marley didn't know who to trust.