terrific writer from columbus, ohio, ■macarthur fellow recently has also been a national book critics circle finalist for his book called go out in the rain. go throw throughout a tribe called quest. it's been a finalist for the national book awd national boo. i don't want to predict the future, but i feel like that might be another one of those. it fantastic book about basketball. but that's like saying the odyssey is about reflects it ofd racial divides into individual struggles, familial politics. all these books are really unique, structurally. this one counts down and segments the way a basketball game features these elegiac timeout sections that resurrect famous ohioans both popular and rgand then there's y startling interludes that are critical appraisals of famous basketball films. so that was ki strongly recommes well. and you also put on your list jesse mccarthy. yes. professor of english■.nglish ann studies at harvard. a great critic. a great novelist as well. recent wine awd winner for his last book, who will pay reparations on my soul. this is a critical survey, actuall