The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program Roger Angell February 28-March 1, 2005

Roger Angell talk on baseball and memory - a recording of the February 28, 2005 event. Roger Angell interview/conversation - A recording of the March 1, 2005 live webcast interview and conversation with Roger Angell, moderated by Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House. The recording of the webcast is available here as a streaming video. It is also available here as an audio mp3. You can hear Angell reading an exerpt from his famous essay about the Boston Red Sox Game 6 of the 1975 World Series here. Click here for photographs of Roger Angell's visit. And click here for Angell's praise of the students and of the Writers House. Here is Al Filreis' blog entry on Angell. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.

"Roger Angell is the clear-eyed poet laureate of baseball. His books are like long, wonderful strings of base hits by the home team. You don't want them to end." -- The New York Post An essayist and fiction editor for the New Yorker, Roger Angell's meditative essays on baseball have earned him the reputation as one of the greatest sportswriters of all time. The New York Times Book Review compared the experience of reading Angell to “watching a game unfold in its own good time over a long afternoon, hoping it will go into extra innings and last until sundown.” Known for reporting as a fan as well as a member of the press, he elevates writing about sports to an art form. The editors of the New York Review of Books praised Angell's collection The Summer Game (1972), for its“searching for the Higher Game, the cosmology behind each pitch, each swing, each ‘shared joy and ridiculous hope’ of summer’s long adventure.” Angell's other books on the national pastime include Late Innings (1982), Season Ticket (1983), Five Seasons (1988), Once More Around the Park (1991) and Game Time (2003). He is the author of the introduction to the latest edition of The Elements of Style, a guide to writing by William Strunk and E.B. White, Angell's stepfather. His own collection of fiction The Stone Arbor and Other Stories was published in 1960.