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October 29, 2007

Video: Nick Hornby on Slam, the Sox, Tony Hawk, and Time Traveling
By Sharon Steel

Thanks to Brookline Booksmith for hosting the Nick Hornby reading

Just to make sure, we decided to wait until the Curse of the Hornbino had been demolished by Your 2007 Boston Red Sox before posting the rest of Nick Hornby's Q&A at the Devotion School in Brookline, where the patron saint of record-store geeks and football obsessives appeared last week to read from his so-called young-adult novel Slam, about a Tony Hawk-worshipping teenager named Sam who flees his hometown after knocking up his girlfriend.

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December 04, 2006

TONIGHT: Charlie Pierce at Hong Kong
By Sharon Steel

SPORTS GUY

How did Tom Brady go from being a sixth-round draft pick to the Patriots’ star quarterback and one of football’s most celebrated players? Ah, the warm-fuzzy story of the underdog. Sports journalist, former Phoenix staffer, and NPR’s “Only A Game” contributor CHARLES P. PIERCE tells the tale of Brady’s rise in Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything

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Video: Nick Hornby on Slam, the Sox, Tony Hawk, and Time Traveling
Published 10/29/2007 by Sharon Steel
Thanks to Brookline Booksmith for hosting the Nick Hornby reading Just to make sure, we decided to...

Boston Phoenix
TONIGHT: Charlie Pierce at Hong Kong
Published 12/4/2006 by Sharon Steel
SPORTS GUYHow did Tom Brady go from being a sixth-round draft pick to the Patriots’ star quarterback...

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