Finally a sports autobiography
that's as good as it's subject

Interview by Ty Webb
I've had a chance to see baseball change and I've formed what I think are experienced opinions on those changes," he says. "One of the nice things about the Streak was that it gave me a chance to become a point man for baseball and to promote the game. I think some of the things I wrote about the state of the game, about how the business side of things has impacted the craft of the game, some of those concerns are important.

New reading for armchair golfers

Grill, baby, grill!
Leave that kitchen

By Sybill Pratt

Even if you can stand the heat, it's time to get out of the kitchen, time to stoke up that grill, time to feel the thrill that comes from cooking in the open air, over an open fire.

Help for the new cook

Meanwhile, back in low-fat land

"The thing that eats at me most":
Jon Krakauer on surviving Everest

Interview by Alden Mudge

On May 10, the day we set out for the summit, most of us were in such bad physical condition that if we had been home we would have been in bed, wouldn't have gone to work, wouldn't have answered the phone, would have just been lying there in agony. And here we were, having not slept or eaten in a couple of days, setting out for what is probably the hardest physical thing we've ever done. You really have to have this puritanical streak, this belief in the nobility of suffering and work, or you'd never do it. The drive to climb is extremely irrational. It defies logic.

From Roger Miller's
NEW & GOOD column

On the trail of endtime nutcases

Interview by Ellen Kanner


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