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...George Plimpton is the editor of the Paris Review and the author of Truman Capote
...advice and, I hoped, a convincing argument to back out of this arrangement, I called George Plimpton, who spent a season training as a goalie with the Boston Bruins for his 1985 book, Open Net. "Hockey players are the greatest cats on earth," he said Plimptonly. He then recounted his own experiences and lacerations. "I envy you," he said. "You'll have a lot of fun. Maybe you won't have so much fun. I don't know...
...Plimpton's advice, though kindly, didn't seem like quite enough, considering I don't know how to skate. So I scheduled a lesson at a local ice-skating rink with a guy who coached the Israeli Olympic figure-skating team, which seemed impressive until I really thought about it. Still, in half an hour, he taught me to skate backward, scuff up the ice in front of the goal, bang on the goal pipes with my stick and blame my equipment when I got scored...
...career including Africa, war, nature, creativity and despair." The many panelists were great writers and journeymen, both: the Nobel laureates Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Derek Walcott as well as critically and popularly acclaimed authors E. Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolff, Chinua Achebe, Frederick Busch, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and dozens of others. A hundred years after Hemingway's birth and 38 years after his death, the subject of the conference was how Hemingway has held up--not just his works, but necessarily the man himself. What is so striking about the Hemingway photograph I have discussed...
Even if you're not interested in seeing George Plimpton do body shots off of an over tanned cabana-boy, Palm Beach offers an opportunity to whittle away trust funds on a deluxe spring break...