{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwriteonsc.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fget-in-the-game-zeTcyZOm","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Get in the Game","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/30f328e8-b4a2-4c66-afeb-670d0bb64d5b/7b56c6eb-4419-4677-8eb6-78d7bfa31f41/screen-shot-2023-07-31-at-9-55-42-am.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/bf132066-1444-4fab-9191-b892683c5c7f\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Get in the Game\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"On March 11, 2023, Kasie and Rex took on sports stories and their natural drama as devices for your fiction.\nOur legal thrillers episode got us thinking about how many other real-life experiences have built-in stakes. We’ve done some of these before (weddings, funerals, etc). Today we’re going to focus on sports and we might circle back to one or more of these later in the month.\nHere are some classic sports novels (link). Which ones have you read?\nThe Natural – Bernard Malamud (baseball) – a player whose career was derailed, attempts a comeback 16 years later\nEnd Zone – Don Delillo (football) – high school football and nuclear war? Yes, please.\nInfinite Jest – David Foster Wallace (tennis) – yes, if you can wade through the 1000 pages of trying, you’ll eventually discover some tennis\nThis was a good list, if for no other reason than it reminded me that the sports trope in romance isn’t actually a sports book (wink)."}