Status Updates From The Great American Novel

PT Barnum by way of baseball, yet Roth predicts the inane “athletic” stunts of the 21st century.

This page might be the most metafictional amid Gil Gamesh alongside the Hawthorne and Melville references. The limit of language in describing a baseball game over the radio in the context of a novel “about” baseball strikes a melancholy striving to complement Roth’s ironies, both the subtle and the outrageous.

Okay, the whole Gil Gamesh saga was pretty funny, even though baseball is not that interesting to me.

And that was just the Prologue…
I can appreciate the structure of the sports writer fighting to keep the memory of a lost league alive amidst the conspiracy to hide its existence, and I liked the Hemingway bit, but… this might be too much baseball for me.

Buon world baseball Classic a tutti ⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️