Writing About Dead Family Members

“I walked in and he gave me one of his looks, dropping his jaw and crossing his eyes as he rolled them back in their sockets. It was a look he assumed in all kinds of situations but that always meant the same thing: can you believe this?”
 — The Guardian excerpts a section from John Jeremiah Sullivan’s ‘Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son’ (out March 14 … in the UK, and — updated to include — out about eight years ago here in America. Sorry about that. Still a good read!).