Calvin Hennick jokingly calls his memoir, ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO, “every thought I’ve ever had,” and the book touches on fatherhood, manhood, race, family, alcohol, baseball, and countless other topics, all considered on a road trip to his childhood hometown with his young son. He talks to James about having the memoir roundly rejected until it won the Pushcart Press Editor’s Award, walking around naked in front of the reader, and not solving all of the world’s problems. Plus, the legendary Bill Henderson of Pushcart Press.
Calvin and James discuss:
The Chunky Monkeys
THE BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE
Grub Street
Boston Red Sox
Adam Jones
Baltimore Orioles
Curt Schilling
Fenway Park
GET OUT dir by Jordan Peele
Cooperstown, NY
Baseball Hall of Fame
PLEASANTVILLE dir by Gary Ross
Jackie Robinson
Millicent Bennett
Grand Central Publishing
Pushcart Editor’s Prize
Bill Henderson
APOCALYPSE NOW dir by Francis Ford Coppola
BUSINESS INSIDER
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Chip Cheek
Whitney Scharer
Jenn DeLeon
THE BODY PAPERS by Grace Talusan
Franz Kafka
James Joyce
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Bill and James discuss:
THE KID THAT COULD
THE PUBLISH IT YOURSELF HANDBOOK by Bill Henderson
The Pushcart Prize
Anais Nin
Buckminster Fuller
Ralph Ellison
Joyce Carol Oates
Doubleday
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mattel Toys
Random House
WW Norton & Co.
ESQUIRE
Central Park
ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO by Calvin Hennick
Little, Brown
Millicent Bennett
POETS & WRITERS
Cooperstown
Fenway Park
Boston Red Sox
WASHINGTON POST
YOU ARE NOT A GADGET by Jaron Lanier
GARDEN STATE by Rick Moody
THE TALE OF THE RING: A KADDISH: A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF THE HOLOCAUST by Frank Stiffel
A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER: THE GREAT HAMPTONS HURRICANE OF 1938 by Genie Chipps Henderson