Michael J. Agovino is the author of The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Family from the Utopian Outskirts of New York City and The Soccer Diaries: An American’s Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

The Improvisational Wonders of Jazz and Soccer
Michael Agovino explores the formal and stylistic echoes between soccer and jazz....

A Fan’s Notes
Juan Villoro's "God Is Round" looks at the highs and lows of soccer....

City (Not) on Fire
An essay from the Spring 2016 edition of the LARB Quarterly Journal....

Beyond "Kind of Blue"
Why Miles Davis is more than his best-known recording...
