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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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