Catching up with the Cup: 2025
Once again, following results is my least effective skill. But before I renew my resolution to make weekly writing happen (come what may) here’s the long and short of 2025.
(Long waits for leagues, short stays in playoffs, and–as always–Vincenzo Grifo)
Nobel FC 1902: Theodor Mommsen
Time for another wayback machine visit to the earliest Nobel winners, this time a rock star historian stood up for traditions and wrote a 7 volume guide to a little known place called “ROME”.
Nobel FC 2025: Laszlo Kraszhnahorkai
Another year of the weirdest exercise in Book Nerdery sees me celebrate this year’s winner with a fragment or two of his sentence long books and an open ended debate about his best fit on the “fantasy football pitch”
Nobel FC: The 2025 New Member Draft
Our fictional team deserves a fictional analysis of its biggest fiction-writer decision of the year. To wit: who joins the ranks of Nobel Laureates, and the silly ranks of our all literary XI.
Meet the likely candidates, and read my totally subjective analysis of who I think the Academy will pick, and who I think…
Nobel FC 1901: Sully Prudhomme
Let’s throw it all the way back to the original laureate: French poet Sully Prudhomme (or as critics of the time called him “respected…but not read”).
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