Get on the World Cup soccer bandwagon and join WPL for an evening with Kansas author Tim Bascom\, who will talk abou t his new book\, The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the St reet to Around the World\, in conversation with local educator and so ccer coach Jeff Roper. \;Hosted in partnership with Watermark Books. B ook sales and signings will be available after the author talk. \;
\nBook Preview and Author Bio:
\nTim Bascom&rsquo\;s newest book& mdash\;The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Ar ound the World (University Press of Kansas\, 2026)&mdash\;celebrates ways that soccer transcends cultural and national borders. Bascom\, who re ceived his MFA from the University of Iowa\, is author of a previous novel \, a collection of short fiction\, two collections of essays\, and two pri ze-winning memoirs about years spent in East Africa as a youth: Chamel eon Days and Running to the Fire. His shorter prose pieces h ave been selected for Best Creative Nonfiction and Best Ameri can Travel Writing\, also winning the Briar Cliff Fiction Prize. Basc om is former director of the annual Kansas Book Festival.
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