As often as we can, we'll be bringing you excerpts from books - new and old - that we think you might like. Meant as brief snippets to whet your appetite, we encourage you to seek out these books so that you can enjoy them as much as we do.
The first one we'd like to present is Peter Sutherland's "Game" published by Nieves Books
in conjunction with his show at MU Gallery in the Netherlands in January of 2007. The contents were culled from a photo series about the Chinatown Soccer Club in New York City. The members of this casual club of young New Yorkers, of whom Sutherland himself is not one of the least fanatic members, get together three mornings a week on a plot in Chinatown to play soccer for an hour or so. Summer and winter, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at least fourteen players are competing against each other, watched by local residents and passers-by, drifters, and the older Chinese who have proclaimed the adjoining basketball court a Tai Chi temple.
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