On Tap
What's Brewing
Pint-Size Publications (PSP) is indeed a microbrewery of sorts. With a relatively short print run, PSP is banking on the good taste of readers like you. We’re hoping for a little “word-of-mouth” action. If you read it and like it, please let someone know. In 2016, we published A Proficiency in Billiards: Reflections from a Well-Traveled Life by Lance Mason, an award-winning travel writer who first came to our attention with his Sport Literate essay, “In the Lair of the Red Dragon.” Here’s a taste.
In summer 2017, we followed up with a poetry chapbook, This Loss Behind Us, featuring the work of Jack Bedell, Paul Hostovsky, and MK Punky.
Just in time for the baseball playoffs in 2019, Elegy for Ebbets, Michael Steinberg’s seven-essay collection, hit the streets.
This Loss Behind Us
The Sport Literate poetry chapbook contest
Congratulations to Jack Bedell, Paul Hostovsky, and MK Punky, the three winners of our first poetry chapbook contest. Each took home $150 and will share space in a book featuring 29 poems and interviews with the poets. Thanks to Frank Van Zant, our judge, and reading editors Shane Guenin, Brian McKenna, and Nicholas Reading.
Order yours for some summer beach fun or an impromptu poetry reading between innings.
A Proficiency in Billiards
Mason’s first essay collection, A Proficiency in Billiards, will take you on a ride-along from his home base in Southern California, standing eyewitness to pool hustlers and drag racers in the 1960s; to VW microbus travels through Greece and Yugoslavia (before and after wars) in two different decades; through rugby matches in Wales; motorcycle rides, wrecks and races from South America to New Zealand to Ireland; train rides through Africa and a cargo ship from Poland to Venezuela; an emergency surgery in the Borneo bush; and a bullfight in Spain. You, supportive reader, can enjoy all from the comfort of your La-Z-Boy with your own favored pint.