Literary baseball

Words Without Borders has made me the pitcher for its (imaginary) softball team. I’m honored, though no one who saw me play for the Skaneateles Little League would have let me on the team, much less as pitcher.

Team members talk about what they’re reading, or plan to read, this summer. I recommended the 1983 book An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie. (At last night’s Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Mingle, I met Sara Kramer from New York Review Books, the publisher of An African in Greenland, and learned that Kpomassie is alive and well.)