By Benjamin Obler

Benjamin Obler teaches fiction at Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City and works with writers individually on book manuscript development. He is the author of the novel Javascotia, from Penguin UK.


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The Sportsman of the Year Award

  The keystone of my admiration of Vernon was his understanding that to some, if the stakes are high enough, a tiny imperfection is intolerable. I met him at a racket club I joined after getting back from Germany, and we liked each other right away. We had a lot in common. A couple of…