Everybody preorder Metropolitans now!!!!
One of the longest and weirdest baseball books ever written, METROPOLITANS is a marxist history of America’s pastime in which the Mets serve a messianic main character.
Check out this excerpt, this interview, or this Adam Gopnik New Yorker review.
PREORDER from Penguin, Bookshop.org, Amazon and/or find me at one of the following launch events:
April 1: Official book launch! w/ Bradford William Davis at Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn (Ticketing information: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-metropolitans-by-a-m-gittlitz/)
April 3: Release celebration at Lou’s Athletic Club in Bushwick more info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPKFCQCp5r/
April 4: Tabling with Books and Rooks at Ft. Green Farmer’s Market around 11am April 12: Paper Moon in Troy, NY April 13: B&N in Albany
April 16: B&N Brooklyn with Noah Kulwin! https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062206054-0
April 20: B&N in Carle's place LI with Greg Prince
April 27: B&N in Paramus, NJ April
30 Mets vs. Yankees debate at Le Pere on 90 Orchard St., moderated by Mattie Lubchansky!
More info will be posted at Astra House’s IG
Monologue adapted from Jean Shepard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz0pnq3ijfs
Tipping Pitches: https://tippingpitch.es/
Go to Greenpoint/Williamsburg/Bushwick/Ridgewood History nights: https://www.instagram.com/gphistorynight/
Songs: The Strokes - Ode to the Mets
The 1986 Mets - Get Metsmerized