A review by jwinchell
Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court by Marc Aronson, Charles R. Smith Jr.

5.0

This is how a collection of short stories should be done! I loved hearing how Aronson & Smith set up the authors to write in succession. The way the feel and the flow of the pick-up game really is carried through each story, told by a different author. The writing is mad fly (as Shane would say), and I loved so many of the chapters--Sharon Flake, Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Robert Lipsyte were my faves. Stellar, finely crafted voices.

This could be a gateway book, and not just for boys/girls who like basketball. I want to know more about The Cage and the Rucker and how street ball and civil rights co-mingled.