It's Okay to Like Sports: How Women, Artists, and Intellectuals Can Find Cultural Value in Athletics
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sports and outdoors, Matt Wasowski wants you to know that it s okay to like sports. He wants women to know it s okay for them to like sports. He wants artists to know it s okay for them to like sports. He wants intellectuals to know it s okay for them to like sports too. In fact, he wants to let every sports fan know that they can even help their non-sports-loving friends, family, and significant others understand that athletics can play a positive role in all aspects of our lives. It s Okay to Like Sports: How Women, Artists, and Intellectuals Can Find Cultural Value in Athletics is a collection of introspective, poignant, and humorous personal essays that closely examine how nearly every aspect of Wasowski s everyday life is affected by his love of sports. From conversing with his friends, to thinking about parenthood, to discussing one s personal finances, Wasowski gives the reader almost unlimited access to his deepest insecurities and darkest secrets while never losing sight of the fact that sports have contributed significantly to his entire being. Wasowski, 34, who grew up in sports-crazed Cleveland and has lived in Brooklyn for 10 years, wrote this book as a response to what he sees as the significantly negative connotation that sports has in many of New York s social and cultural circles. He writes in the book s opening essay: At least once a month I hear some 21-to-45-year old female acquaintance or self-proclaimed intellectual hipster make a snide comment about sports. These co.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Allen's Bookshop.
Brooklyn, NY: Nerd Nite Enterprises, Inc., 2007. 183pp. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front (title) page and above the inscription there is additional owner/info that is marked over with a black marker. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Hippo Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s). Paperback.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ExtremelyReliable, TX, Richmond, [RE:3].
Paperback.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books of Texas, NY, New York City, [RE:5].
Paperback.