Mark Kram Jr.'s Blog: LIKE ANY NORMAL DAY UPDATES

I am very pleased to announce that Like Any Normal Day has been honored with the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. For details about the book, please visit www.markkramjr.com.

Very pleased to announce that Like Any Normal Day: A Story of Devotion has been shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.

Like Any Normal Day: A Story of Devotion has been optioned for Film/TV by Brad Falchuk, the two-time Golden Globe winner and Emmy-nominated co-creator, director and screenwriter of Glee and American Horror Story. For additional information, visit www.markkramjr.com.

Happy to announce that the trade paperback editon of Like Any Normal Day goes on sale May 14.

Look for a review of Like Any Normal Day in the April 23 issue of Sports Illustrated.

O, The Oprah Magazine on Like Any Normal Day: "Whether you agree or disagree with their decision, you'll be unable to turn away from the heartbreaking true story of a paralyzed man and the devoted brother who helps him die."

Friends, please have a look at the web sit that the talented designed Karl Moser created for Like Any Normal Day.
The address is: http://www.markkramjr.com
Enjoy!

“Like Any Normal Day looks piercingly beyond the moment when the lights dim and the crowds go home in any young athlete’s life. Kram’s acuity and sympathies stretch far beyond his sportwriter’s practiced gaze – indeed, all the way to the realm of literature. It is not a happy story he has to tell us. But it seems to me – perhaps for that very reason – it is an essential and cautionary one.”
– Richard Ford, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day.

"There is nothing normal about Like Any Normal Day. In the spirit of his late father, Mark Kram Jr. has stripped away the mythology and stereotypes of the sporting world and found something deeper, the complicated truth of a profound and haunting story."
--David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered

“Mark Kram, Jr. has always been among the nation’s very finest newspaper feature writers, and now his book, Like Any Normal Day, exhibits the same superb craft. It is a story that is so sad, yet so filled with every variation of the sweetest love, wonderfully, lovingly told. Kram has drawn the people in it so well that they and the scenes they inhabit will long stay in your memory.”
--Frank Deford, author of Everybody’s All-American

“Like Any Normal Day is both extraordinary and unexpected. It’s about more than the famously ruthless mercies applied by Dr. Kevorkian. It’s an intimate family history. As constructed by Mark Kram Jr., the narrative begins with a high school football game and drives to that place separating bravery and compassion, longing and love. Kram is an expert reporter, sure, but his beat might well be the human soul.”
--Mark Kriegel, author of Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich and Namath

“Like Any Normal Day is anything but normal. It’s heart-breaking and heart-warming, a compelling story of brothers, love, tragedy and sports. Mark Kram Jr. takes us on a raw emotional journey that turns into a riveting American story.”
--Christine Brennan, author of Best Seat in the House

"Read this book and Buddy Miley will become part of your life. He will be there every time you see anyone in a wheelchair. He will be there every time the announcer says someone is hurt, lying on a football field and not moving. He will be there every time you think twice about whatever problem is kicking your behind on a particular day, a reminder that things could be worse. Read this book and...just read this book. Terrific."
--Leigh Montville, author of The Big Bam and Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel