Finding romance in empty ballparks

Anyone with an ounce of taste has been reading one American writer in particular for the last couple of years.

John Jeremiah Sullivan’s collection of non-fiction pieces, Pulphead, was published to rave reviews and should feature on your bookshelf, where it ought to be joined by his first book, which has been re-issued.

Blood Horses has an immediately attractive sub-title for this corner of the newspaper: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son.