Luke Epplin

Luke Epplin is a freelance writer. His work has appeared in The Daily Beast, the New Yorker Page-Turner, and n+1

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The Problem With Remembering Stan Musial as Baseball's 'Perfect Knight'

The Problem With Remembering Stan Musial as Baseball's 'Perfect Knight'

The late legend's nice-guy mythology has lent him a diminished legacy compared with the his peers. More »

Tony La Russa: Great Manager, Terrible Memoirist

Tony La Russa: Great Manager, Terrible Memoirist

The man who led the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series championship last season knows baseball—but not how to write about it. More »

SNL Is Hopelessly Stuck in the Past

SNL Is Hopelessly Stuck in the Past

Its sketches lampoon decades-old talk shows while barely acknowledging the Internet's existence. More »

St. Louis's Second Most Valuable Player

St. Louis's Second Most Valuable Player

Forget David Freese and Albert Pujols: The Cardinals owe their World Series victory to a middling retired pitcher named Kent Bottenfield More »

Tom Waits Sounds Older, Weirder, and Wiser on 'Bad As Me'

Tom Waits Sounds Older, Weirder, and Wiser on 'Bad As Me'

Waits's latest album sees the ornery and brilliant singer addressing his own legend More »

Tom Waits: From Tropicana Motel to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Tom Waits: From Tropicana Motel to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

A look at the career of the raspy-voiced singer-songwriter, who has always seemed slightly out of step with his contemporaries More »

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