Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 6/01/2007

6/1/1993:
Trailing 6-1, 5-1 in the quarterfinals of the French Open, Floridian Mary Joe Fernandez stages a miraculous rally to overcome Argentinian Gabby Sabatini, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 10-8. The match lasts over three and a half hours and each player saves five match points before Fernandez rips a backhand winner down the line to end it.

Birthdays:
Alan Ameche b. 1933
Dean Chance b. 1941
Randy Hundley b. 1942
Paul Coffey b. 1961
Santana Moss b. 1979

YOU’VE NEVER READ HENRY MILLER?

ON MILLER

“There is nothing like Henry Miller when he gets rolling...One has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity.”—Norman Mailer

“The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.”—George Orwell

The story of an expatriate in Bohemian Paris, Miller’s landmark autobiographical novel is almost as raw today as it was in the 1930s, when it was banned in America. See what the fuss is about.

TROPIC OF CANCER, by Henry Miller (1934; Grove Press, 1987)