Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Not only is author Nick Hornby a #1 bestseller of fiction, he also penned the screenplays for Wild and An Education. Fancy. (Source.)
Hornby didn't want the book to have a moral about teenage pregnancy, one-way or the other. Do you think he succeeded?
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Hornby wanted to tell a story about what it's like for guys to deal with teenage pregnancy since we hear more about the gal's side of it, usually. That's why he wrote Slam.
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According to Hornby, skateboarding is much more interesting than football, and football is overrated. Them's fighting words for sure. (Source.)