Since 2003 John Turnbull has edited The Global Game (www.theglobalgame.com), a website of world soccer culture. He is coeditor of The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (2008) and lives in Atlanta. His Pushcart Prize–nominated essay "Alone in the Woods: The Literary Landscape of Soccer's 'Last Defender'" appeared in the July 2010 issue of WLT.
Do I love you precious moments?Reply, for life is slowly killing me.Do I love you precious moments? Yes or no?—Clarice Lispector, Jornal do Brasil, 20 September 1969
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