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Alex Beam

 
Contributing writer

Alex Beam is a columnist at the Boston Globe and the author of A Great Idea at The Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books.

 

Articles by Alex Beam

Book Review: "An Accidental Sportswriter"
Robert Lipsyte covering a boxing match at Shea Stadium in 1967
Books

Book Review: "An Accidental Sportswriter"

By Robert Lipsyte '57CC, '59JRN

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