Product Description: In 2005, Rounder Books released the first-ever collection of Sox-inspired short stories, Fenway Fiction. Response was overwhelming, and before long editor Adam Emerson Pachter was fielding an entirely new roster of submissions for this hotly anticipated sequel. This winning lineup includes several authors featured in the previous volume, along with a strong cast of rookies and newcomers - all paying tribute to the elusive allure of the Boston Red Sox.
A Must Have for the Red Sox Fan Any Boston Red Sox fan has a story to tell you about how his or her own history is somehow inextricably tied up with the history of the Boston Red Sox, and Adam Pachter is no exception. The author and editor was putting the final touches on Fenway Fiction, the first all-fiction anthology of Red Sox fiction in early October of 2004, when later that month the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years. Oddly enough, then, the stories in the first anthology were all written prior to that World Series. After nearly one hundred years of futile hope, Chicago baseball fans won't find it hard to believe that rich fiction is born of such suffering. Oddly enough, then, the stories in the first anthology, Fenway Fiction, were all written before the Red Sox had won the World Series. There are many Boston fans who worried, as Cubs fans are wont to worry, that something of the beauty of being a Red Sox fan might have been sacrificed in that 2004 championship season. But Further Fenway Fiction suggests that there may be no end to the stories from Red Sox Nation. In addition to stories about fantasy camps and rain delays and the 2004 World Series, Further Fenway Fiction includes a musical, a tragedy, and poetry as well. And in one of the loveliest stories of the anthology, "Inheritance," Lenore Myka writes of an elderly woman and life-long Red Sox fan who entertains her young visitor with stories that hint at fantasy, but under which life and love and passion rage with unassailable truth. If you're an American League fan and you live near Chicago, and all this talk of the Red Sox is making you sick, start writing your stories about 2005. I'll be asking you for them soon.
Von Euw stands out in this collection Further Fenway Fiction is a labor of love, and demonstrates a passion that stretches beyond the playing field. Michelle Von Euw's story in particular highlights not only the innocence of the game in its truest form, but also of human nature. Baseball fans, Red Sox diehards, and lovers of short fiction will most certainly enjoy this collection.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
Trevor
