Chris Bachelder is an American writer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer.
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2015
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Opening Excerpt
From the storyIN OUR PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT . . .
Each November for the past sixteen years, twenty-two men have convened at a hotel off I-95 to reenact a gruesome milestone in football history: the 1985 play (a flea-flicker known in the Washington Redskins playbook as the Throwback Special) in which New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor sacked Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, shattering his leg and ending his career.
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Emotional Weight
3.8 / 5
Bittersweet
Narrative Pacing
2.0 / 5
Contemplative
Literary Style
2.5 / 5
Clear Realism
Speculative / Reality
1.6 / 5
Realistic / Mimetic
Appearances
The Paris Review
The Paris Review No. 214 — Fall 2015 · Sep 1, 2015
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