Guides: The Syntax of Sports: Running

Literary Sentences

Once a Runner (Excerpt)
By John L. Parker, Once a Runner: a Novel, pp. (2009).
Poverty Creek Journal (Excerpt)
By Thomas Gardner, Poverty Creek Journal, pp. (2014)
To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet
by Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times (July 19,1999)
The Running Novelist
By Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker (June 9 & 16, 2008)
What Made Maddy Run (Excerpt)
By Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen (2017), available from ESPN
Fires
by Rick Bass, Big Sky Journal (Summer 2013)
Goat
By James McBride, LeVar Burton Reads (2017)

The Runners
By Irving Feldman, in Collected Poems: 1954-2004 (2004)
Runner
By W.H. Auden, in The Sporting Life: Athletes in Literature and Life pp 90-91 (1960)
Run Before Dawn
By William Stafford, An Oregon Message (2002), available from The Writer's Almanac
Boston Strong
By Richard Blanco, Boston Strong: The Poem, pp. 7-16 (2013)

To My Legs
By W. S. Merwin (March 25, 2012), available from the Poetry Foundation
LeVar Burton Reads "Fires" by Rick Bass
By LeVar Burton (2017), available from PlayerFM

Born to Run by Christopher Mcdougall
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate 2nd floor Browsing Collection - Shelved by author
Publication Date: 2011
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami
Call Number: Available to the University of Michigan via EBSCO ebooks. Authentication may be required.
Publication Date: 2009
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate 2nd floor Browsing Collection - Shelved by author
Publication Date: 2016
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate — 4 South: PS3602 .E6565 R86 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Poverty Creek Journal by Thomas Gardner
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate PS3557 .A71464 P68
Publication Date: 2014
For the Glory by Duncan Hamilton
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate — 6 South GV1061.15 .L53 H36 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Two Hours by Ed Caesar
Publication Date: 2016
Once a Runner by John L. Parker
Publication Date: 2010

Duel in the Sun
By John Brant, Runners World (2004)
What We Think About When We Run
By Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker (Nov. 3, 2015).
Good Luck, Morons: Lazarus Lake & His Impossible Race
By Sara Estes, The Bitter Southerner (2014)
The Epic Untold Story of Nike's (Almost) Perfect Marathon
By Ed Caesar, Wired (June 29, 2017)
Life and Limb
How far would you go to preserve your life as a runner? Would you cut off your own leg? That’s exactly what Tom White did. This is his story.
By Bruce Barcott, Runner's World (June 2018)
Jordan Hasay Will Outrun You. While Smiling.
By Katherine Laidlaw, Outside (March 8, 2018)
Two Hours
By Ed Caesar, Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon (2016)
Either/Or: Intersexuality and Athletics
By Ariel Levy, The New Yorker (November 30, 2009)
How Running Saved My Life
By Matt Fitzgerald, Outside (March 25, 2019)
The Paraplegic Marathon Man
By Bill Donahue, Outside (March 19, 2019)
The Long Shots
By Luke Alfred, The Atavist (September 2018)
When Your Body Says No
By Christopher Solomon, Outside Online (December 17, 2018)