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Steve Rushin to Give Reading at Westminster School

Award-winning writer Steve Rushin will give a reading at Westminster School Jan. 17 as a part of the school’s “Friday Nights in Gund,” a series of readings, lectures and concerts held at Westminster during the academic year. The faculty reader will be Westminster English teacher Emily Neilson.

Rushin is a well-known journalist, sportswriter and novelist who lives in Connecticut. His first novel, “The Pint Man,” was published in 2010, and his newest book, “The 34-Ton Bat: The Story of Baseball as Told Through Bobbleheads, Cracker Jacks, Jockstraps, Eye Black and 375 Other Strange and Unforgettable Objects,” came out recently and was named a Notable Book of the Fall by Publishers Weekly. In 2006, he was named the National Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association.  A collection of his sports and travel writing, “The Caddie Was a Reindeer,” was named a semifinalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. 

A four-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, Rushin has had his work anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Magazine Writing collections. His essays have appeared in Time magazine and The New York Times. He writes a weekly column for SI.com and is a What TK to Golf Digest. Rushin and his wife, Rebecca Lobo, have four children.

Rushin’s Westminster School reading is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the school’s Armour Academic Center. The school is located at 995 Hopmeadow St. in Simsbury. Refreshments will be served after the presentation and ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to the Armour Academic Center.

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