Writer Alexander Tilney On What Squash And Tennis Can Teach Each Other

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis

English - September 20, 2019 02:06 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MB - ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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Alex Tilney, author of The Expectations, joins his longtime friend and occasional racquet-sports opponent Carl Bialik to talk about how squash figures in both his novel and an exclusive slice of American society, why substituting tennis for squash would have made for a very different tale, and what tennis and squash can learn from each other about keeping spectators entertained.

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Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit Roll" and "Glass Android."