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Marino reviews new sports title for New York Times

By David Gonnerman '90
September 12, 2007

St. Olaf faculty member and Kierkegaard Library Curator Gordon Marino reviewed Far Afield: A Sportwriting Odyssey by senior Sports Illustrated writer S.L. Price in Sunday's New York Times Book Review.

"The seasoned reporter behind this memoir is a master of the new journalism developed by Hunter Thompson, Gay Talese and Price's personal paragon, Pete Hamill," writes Marino. "Adherents of this approach drop all pretense to objectivity and are loath to dismiss any detail as irrelevant."

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Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.