![]() ![]() The following year, the piece appeared in an anthology of short stories, and an advanced review in Publisher’s Weekly caught the eye of a young editorial assistant named Larry Kessenich at Houghton Mifflin. Kinsella read his short story, titled “ Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa” aloud for the first time at the next Iowa City Creative Reading meeting – one week before leaving Iowa City! He’d accepted a teaching position at the University of Calgary that would begin in the fall. ![]() I wondered, ‘What would happen if Shoeless Joe Jackson came back in this time and place, which was Iowa City in the spring of 1978 ?’ At first, it was simply a lyrical 20-page short story, where Joe Jackson, the infamous White Sox player who was accused of game-fixing in the 1919 World Series, materializes like a phantom ballplayer from the corn. ![]() It was the story that would change his life-and Iowa-forever. (M-0030) During his second year of graduate school, Kinsella began working on a new story inspired by Iowa City, the 1919 Black Sox, and his complicated relationship with his father. ![]()
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