"W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie, 'Field of Dreams.' It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing catch with the ghost of his father. In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home. Like Ring Lardner and Bernard Malamud before him, Kinsella spins baseball as backdrop and metaphor, and, like his predecessors, uses the game to tell us a little something more about who we are and what we need." Amazon.com —
No matter how creative a writer is, the characters they create will never be as interesting as some of the real people who have lived throughout history. Sometimes, this includes their fellow authors—whenever one writer inserts another into a narrative, even for just a cameo, things get interesting fast, and the meta-fictional hi-jinx pile up. In […]