McSweeney's jumped right into Shallot life with its recent Recreational Jewish Youth Basketball: An Ethnography. Our contribution to the team?
Russell DeFonzo, a 25-assist-per-game, half-Jewish point-guard with a killer crossover and red-spiked hair, who will eventually break from the group in 9th grade and end up dropping out of school to run a sports gambling arm of a local crew loosely associated with his single father's Pontiac-leasing business.
Hey, they couldn't all have majored in political science.