Book Review: It’s in the Small Moment’s that Sami Jo Small’s The Role I Played Shines

Author’s Note: To be transparent, I know Sami Jo Small. She has been incredibly kind to me and I consider her a mentor and a friend. However, at the same time I have tried to be as honest and unbiased as I can be in my review of her autobiography. Luckily, but not surprisingly, I…

Women’s Hockey Literature (Pre-2012)

Most sports films and novels focus on men’s sports and are intended for an assumed male reader, so much so that if one wants to find a story about women athletes or teams they have to specify “women’s sports films” or “women’s sports literature.” Women’s sports stories, on the page or screen, are comparatively rare…