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In the summer of 2010, Jack Silverstein was chatting with friends at a Wicker Park bar when the subject turned to his writing.
That March, he had published a book, “Our President,” a series of essays about Barack Obama. He was covering the Chicago music scene heavily for several outlets. But two of his buddies offered a suggestion.
They told Silverstein that he should write about sports. They acknowledged his writing chops but said he reached another level when he wrote about sports.
“I thought sports was too easy,” Silverstein said this week. “Maybe in a sense I was looking down on it.