Large at The Sporting Blog
You probably didn't see this over at sportingnews.com, so let me be the first to inform you that I, Large, am officially joining the team at The Sporting Blog. I was hired by Chris Mottram, the manager of the The Sporting Blog who is known to most of you out there in the blogdome as one half of the Mottram brother-team that brings us Mr. Irrelevant.I have to say, I'm very excited to be writing in any capacity for The Sporting News - it's a very No Masian publication, one that I associate with the childhood mystery of sports at its finest. Me, I think of that magazine and I immediately see it's iconic script in my mind and then I'm about seven years old again. For some reason, Dave Parker springs to my mind.
I haven't figured out exactly what I'm going to be doing over there yet, but to start I imagine I'll keep it pretty No Mas in its orientation - a lot of history in the No Mas vein, a little bit of classic/now, and, of course, fisticuffs galore. Eventually I probably will start doing some kind of material exclusively there and some sort of material exclusively here, and when that breakdown occurs, rest assured that I will let you know. I'll most likely be pimping my Sporting Blog material most egregiously here at No Mas (and vice versa) so, you know, you'll be in the loop.
posted by Large at 8:24 AM
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Off topic, a question I don't know anywhere to ask with reasonable expectation of an answer but here: currently reading _What Makes Sammy Run?_, having just finished _The Harder They Fall_, and both books contain a remarkably similar character, a poet who is an old college friend/acquaintance of the narrator, who published an award-winning book of poetry while still in school and in the present tense of the books is drowning his muse in aristocratic fashion somewhere near Hollywood. The question being, the similarity leads me to believe this is based on someone Schulberg knew--any idea who it is? Effing Scott Fitzgerald? Mazel tov on the job, by the way.
Thanks McCough.
I know exactly who you're talking about in both books, and one would have to imagine that it was a Fitzgerald portrait for the most part, although a Faulkner influence is possible as well, but not likely I guess. If you are versed in Schulbergiana, then you know that his dad was the head of Paramount Pictures and that his Hollywood connections were many. Budd knew F. Scott as far back as the 30's, and in "The Disenchanted" Fitzgerald is the major character. In that Schulberg seemed to write the same book many times (principled protagonist slowly de-principled by the big bad world) it's not surprising that this one character makes many appearances.
I have a Schulberg connection and have tried in the past to get a No Mas interview. I really need to make that happen. He is certainly on the Mount Rushmore of No Masian writers, and I'm not going to be interviewing Mailer, Hemingway or Plimpton anytime soon.
Thanks for the knowledge, Large. A Schulberg interview would be sweet as strudel.
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