12508OutOfThePocket

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OUT OF THE POCKET | Fiction | By Bill Konigsberg

NOVELIST: What if the star of the high school football team was gay?
In OUT OF THE POCKET, 17-year-old Bobby Framingham of Orange
County, Calif., is struggling with a secret. One of the most talented
players in the state, Bobby knows he's different than his teammates.
But he so much doesn't want to be. Can he be one of the boys
while still being honest about who he is? And how will the girl who
thinks she's dating him take to the news?

OUT OF THE POCKET is a true, funny and poignant view at coming out as a
teenager – Complete with all of its complexities, challenges, love & hate we
remember from our own youth. A must read for all – young and not so much.
                                                                                              – Ambiente Magazine

SPORTS WRITER: Bill Konigsberg is an award-winning sports journalist who has written for television,
newspapers, wire services, and the internet. As a sports writer and editor for The Associated Press from
2005-08, he covered the New York Mets, and his weekly fantasy baseball column appeared across the
country, from the New York Daily News to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In May of 2001, while working as an
assistant editor at ESPN.com, he came out on the front page of the website in an article entitled "Sports
World Still a Struggle for Gays." That article won him a GLAAD Media Award the following year. Since then,
he has spoken at venues across the country about what it is like to be one of the few openly gay people in
sports media. He has written for ESPN.com, The New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami
Herald, Denver Post, and North Jersey Herald and News. His work has also appeared in Out Magazine and
Outsports.com. His story was included as a chapter in the book "Jocks 2: Coming Out To Play" by Dan
Woog.

PERSONAL: In 1994, upon graduating from Columbia University with a degree in Literature-Writing, Bill
became internationally known for simulating out the remainder of that year' strike-shortened baseball
season on a computer program. He wrote about the games and posted results daily in the NY Daily News,
San Francisco Chronicle and Miami Herald. Coverage of his simulated season was seen on NBC World
News Tonight, Dateline NBC, CNN, and the Tokyo Broadcast System. His World Series, won by the New York
Yankees in what some believe to be the greatest fix since the Black Sox scandal of 1919, was dramatized on
Dateline NBC using actual college players.
Bill received his MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University in 2005. He currently lives in Brooklyn
Heights with his significant other, Chuck Cahoy.
STUFF I LIKE:
TV shows: Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Will & Grace, South Park, The Sarah Silverman Program, The
Daily Show, Colbert Report, Swingtown, My So Called Life, Seinfeld, Top Chef, Big Brother, Project Runway,
My Life on the D-List.

Music: Scissor Sisters, Mika, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Jason Mraz, Aimee Mann.

Books:
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Eighty-Sixed, David Feinberg
This Book Will Save Your Life, A.M. Homes
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, Randall Kenan
Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin
A Boys Own Story, Edmund White
Dairy Queen, Catherine Murdock
Holes, Louis Sachar
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Ghost Machine, Andrew Smith
The Dreyfus Affair, Peter Lefcourt

To purchase OUT OF THE POCKET, or more on the writer, visit: wwwl.billkonisgsberg.com

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