Readers Up #6: The Sure Thing
Let’s get this out of the way up front. Horseplaying is witchcraft. There’s a famous Aleister Crowley quote. You probably know it (why are you reading this...
Readers Up #5: Pretty Penny Farm
My sole criterion for this newsletter is both an inch wide and a fathom deep: for a book to be considered, it must feature the racetrack in some way. The...
Readers Up #4: No Easy Trip
One of my favorite Millennial measuring sticks is D.A.R.E. You know, Drug Abuse Resistance Education? Love that shit. My copy of King of the Wind has a...
Readers Up #3: Out of the Clouds
I like horror movies. I especially like body horror, not least because while in college I found it exhilarating to write papers for Victorian lit seminars...
Readers Up #2: King of the Wind
So maybe I was destined to love this sport. Girls inclined to horse literature as children usually have a favorite Marguerite Henry novel, and it’s usually...
Readers Up: Welcome!
If you hit Subscribe, it's likely you're interested in racing literature--maybe equine literature as a whole, but specifically the Sport of Kings. I've mused...
Readers Up #1: The Head and Not the Heart
There's a lot to love about Natalie Keller Reinert's first Alex and Alexander story, but one line struck me exactly where I live. Oh, I can't live without...