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Here’s Joan Acocella on Elmore Leonard in the latest issue of The New York Review of Books:

Over at The Daily Beast, my pal Allen Barra writes about Frederick Exley and his muse, the late Frank Gifford:

Really enjoyed reprinting Harry Stein’s 1976 Esquire profile of Harry Ritz. Dig in.

Happy Birthday, Clemente. Picture by JB Bradley.

Thanks to Peteski for hipping me to these dope pictures of base brawls by the most talented Harrison Freeman over at…

If you have yet to bookmark Esquire Classics, whadda ya waiting for?

Thanks to the essential weekly newsletter, The Sunday Long Read (compiled with taste and care by Don Van Natta Jr.…

The real stacks.

Ah, now this looks like it’s worth your time. Nicholas Dawidoff’s New York Times…

...goes to A Tribe Called Quest.

Here’s something cool—Esquire Classics.

Nice.

Over at The New York Review of Books, check out this essay by the late Mark Strand on Edward Hopper:

Pat Jordan wrote a small piece on former NBA ref Tim Donaghy five years ago for the Times. Now, he’s got a bigger…

Jazz Wax, thank you, once again.

Found in the $1.00 bin at a record store in New Jersey. A 45 by, yes, that Bobby Murcer. He’s no Denny McClain but…

William Finnegan’s new book, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life looks like a choice read. Dig the excerpt in The New…

The most-talented Mike Jackson says this picture of Bryce Harper is a work-in-progress but hell, I like it just the…

Nice piece on Leo Mazzone by Tom Rehagen over at SB Nation Longform: