{"id":4467,"date":"2021-05-26T18:29:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T18:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2021-05-26T18:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T18:29:20","slug":"podcast-episode-107-book-club-sudden-death-by-alvaro-enrigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/26\/podcast-episode-107-book-club-sudden-death-by-alvaro-enrigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 107: Book Club: Sudden Death, by Alvaro Enrigue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Episode 107 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a>, with Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast<\/a>, is our fourth book club episode, a discussion of Alvaro Enrigue’s novel, Sudden Death<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is set around the year 1600, and a central feature is a real tennis<\/a> match between the Italian painter Caravaggio<\/a> and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo<\/a>. Enrigue is fascinated by the various ways tennis pops up in the documentary record of the era, a mix of high and low culture, cutting across continents and national borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The novel is digressive, so we follow suit and stray far afield from the contents of the book itself. Carl and I get into the advantages and difficulties of writing blow-by-blow descriptions of points, how many numbers is too many numbers, the various ways theatrical productions depict tennis, and why tennis fans seem so insecure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\nhttp:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode107.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n

(Note: this episode is about 52 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click to listen<\/a>, subscribe on iTunes<\/a>, or use our feed<\/a> to get updates on your favorite podcast software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music: Everyone Has Gone Home<\/a> by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2020. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: spinningmerkaba<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Episode 107 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast, is our fourth book club episode, a discussion of Alvaro Enrigue’s novel, Sudden Death. The book is set around the year 1600, and a central feature is a real tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet … Continue reading Podcast Episode 107: Book Club: Sudden Death, by Alvaro Enrigue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-court-tennis","category-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}