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Mac Crane

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Mac Crane is a basketball player and sweatpants enthusiast who lives in California. They are the author of the debut novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself and a forthcoming novel about queer basketball players.

— From March 2024
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Loving a Sport That Doesn’t Always Love Me Back

I’ve always enjoyed pickup: the sudden poetry of it, the immediate bond and intimacy among strangers. . . . It’s all guts and very little glory—yet there is some glory, even if only a handful of spectators are watching. One OHHHHHHH, after you cross someone so hard they fall on their ass, can make you hold your head high for the rest of the week.

March 2024
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