Interview: Lila Avilés on Charting the Language of Family in Tótem

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ésonChartingtheLanguageofFamilyinTóPamela Petros ThunderStick is titled after and structured around a tennis racket:Its not every day you get a box of tennis racquets in the mail.ésonChartingtheLanguageofFamilyinTóScott Korb illustrates the mythic heights of tennis writing in his essay Stage Struck:Sports broadcasters are guiltier these days than sportswriters of the grand metaphor approach where tennis is concerned.

ésonChartingtheLanguageofFamilyinTóor that Hawk-Eye is the name of the technology used to verify a challenged umpire call? Theres a story in there somewhere.ésonChartingtheLanguageofFamilyinTóand I owe a ton of that knowledge to Joy Katz for her essay Tennis Is the Opposite of Death: A Proof.ésonChartingtheLanguageofFamilyinTóLouisa Thomas opens Let It Be Love by rejecting the schmaltzy application of a popular tennis term:Theres a T-shirt favored by a certain kind of tennis player that says.

ésonChartingtheLanguageofFamilyinTóThe balls tone is a hollow pok on hard courts and a chalky chh-chh on clay that dies on the second bounce.ésonChartingtheLanguageofFamilyinTóChristopher Notarnicolas work was featured in The Best American Essays 2017 and has been published in American Short Fiction.

ésonChartingtheLanguageofFamilyinTóa philosophy):The courts were our familys livelihood; their quality was a matter of pride for my father.

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