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Carlo Rotella shows us how much we've been missing in the years since he published his last book.

Carlo Rotella shows us how much we've been missing in the years since he published his last book. In this collection of articles and essays about fencers, boxers, nightmares, Providence and Jack Vance-to name a few-he displays a remarkable talent for piercing observations and deftly-turned phrases. Yet within the disciplined fireworks of his style, true mastery is displayed by a narrator whose insight into human shortcomings is matched by his empathy for them

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Playing in Time: Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Cut Time: An Education at the Fights (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt (University of California Press, 2002). October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (University of California Press, 1998). The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood," The New Yorker (May 22, 2019).

Playing in Time book. Rotella’s essays are always smart, frequently funny, and consistently surprising. This collection will be welcomed by his many fans and will bring his inimitable style and approach to an even wider audience.

Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories. It’s a tremendous pleasure to tour America with Carlo Rotella, whose essays take us from a style polka club in Chicago, to a ‘jazz fantasy camp’ in upstate New York, to the Las Vegas mall where Floyd Mayweather Jr. is getting a pedicure. Full of sharp dialogue, true to the ideals of craft and adventure, this essay collection reads like a great road novel. Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed

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From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns-Carlo Rotella’s Playing in Time delivers good stories full of vivid characters, all told with the unique voice and humor that have garnered Rotella many devoted readers in the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, and Washington. Post Magazine, among others.

The two dozen essays in Playing in Time, some of which have never before been . Carlo Rotella is one of the most important non-fiction writers working in America today. Werner Sollors, Harvard University.

The two dozen essays in Playing in Time, some of which have never before been published, revolve around the themes and obsessions that have characterized Rotella’s writing from the start: boxing, music, writers, and cities. What holds them together is Rotella’s unique focus on people, craft, and what floats outside the mainstream. Rotella is best known for his writings on boxing, and his essays here do not disappoint. It’s a topic that he turns to for its colorful characters, compelling settings, and formidable life lessons both in and out of the ring.

The Boston College Libraries feature recent books, manuscripts, videos . Dr. Carlo Rotella, English Department Post Magazine, among others.

Dr. Carlo Rotella, English Department. From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns-Carlo Rotella’s Playing in Time delivers good stories full of vivid characters, all told with the unique voice and humor that have garnered Rotella many devoted readers in the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, and Washington.