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I refuse to take responsibility for the flaws of Texas Longhorns Football History A to Z (2007). For one thing, the Boston-based publisher assigned me a female editor who was clueless about sports writing conventions. And while I was happy to...
It was Saturday morning. I took Line 2 to Dongseoul Bus Terminal and then cruised down the highway to Cheongju. This time, however, I was not there on Jikji business (although I was carrying a copy of Jikji, and One NGO’s Lonely Fight to Bring It...
I have never been to Ukraine. Nor, to my knowledge, have I met a native of that country of 42 million on Russia’s western border. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it became independent—which is not to say the Bear does not still...
I spent most of 1995, 1996 and 1997 researching, writing and nudging Longhorn Hoops / The History of Texas Basketball toward publication. Funded on the cheap by the UT athletic department, it was brought out in 1998 by UT Press. I was in touch...
The 125-kilometer bus ride from Seoul to Gongju in Chungcheongnam Province is usually about 2 ½ hours long, but on this Thursday morning and afternoon it lasted almost six. The Chuseok holidays caused the roads to be packed. Gongju was not my...
The fall semester has now begun at the University of Georgia, located in the charming town of Athens. I surmise that each of the 5,750 students in the present freshman class (largest in UGA history) has high hopes, dreams and aspirations. This is...
Marching and picketing, sit-ins, court rulings, freedom rides, grassroots activism, soaring oratory, physical resistance and fervent prayers contributed to the success of the civil rights movement. But minor league baseball also helped eliminate...
As I have said before in various ways, I am ambivalent about my alma mater. I attended and graduated from the University of Texas and spent about 30 years in Austin, but it is not the central fact of my life. While UT is a big school (more than...
Not long ago, my friend Ruby Lee stated her admiration for women’s fashion designer and perfume maker Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. Ruby is a smart person whose opinions I respect, so I went in search of information about Chanel. That’s not to say I...
It was liberation day—the defeated Japanese having begun a hasty exit from Korea 74 years ago—and President Moon Jae-in, in a pale blue hanbok, was addressing the nation from Independence Hall in Cheonan. I saw him on the TV from my seat at the...
Among the 125 or so books I shipped from Texas to Korea in June was Armadillo World Headquarters, a memoir written by Eddie Wilson with help from Jesse Sublett. Published in 2017 by University of Texas Press, it was considerably better than...
Each of the last two weekends, I have left the friendly confines of Gangnam and traveled north of the Han River to explore Gwanghwamun, and I may very well go back next weekend. There is always so much to see—maybe too much. What is this place...
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