The Book Case

Doug Bauer Steps Up to Bat


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Doug Bauer has written a love story, "The Beckoning World". A man and a woman. A father and son. A love for a more innocent time. A lovely homage to America’s midwest. And a love story about baseball. It’s a simple book really—until it’s not. Boy meets girl. Boy is a promising pitcher. Girl's father says, "You pick: my daughter or baseball." He picks the girl. But then the book veers back to baseball and the protagonist pitcher and his son are barnstorming across America with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Sound implausible? Doug makes it seem perfectly reasonable. The Beckoning World is evocative of the early 20th century, conjures up small town baseball parks (you can almost smell the peanuts), and makes you feel like you know the Babe and Lou. Especially the Babe.

And speaking of small towns, this week’s bookstore is Fact and Fiction in Missoula, Montana. Give it all a listen.

Books mentioned in this podcast:

  • The Beckoning World by Douglas Bauer
  • The Book of Famous Iowans by Douglas Bauer
  • The Very Air by Douglas Bauer
  • Dexterity by Douglas Bauer
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Wild Kingdom by Vijay Seshadri
  • War and Peace By Leo Tolstoy
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch
  • Body Grammar by Jules Ohman
  • Killing Custer by James Welch
  • Penguin Problems Jory John
  • Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin illustrated by Daniel Salmieri
  • Mother Bruce Book Series by Ryan T. Higgins
  • Winter in the Blood by James Welch
  • Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  • Once Sentence Journal by Chris La Tray
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