Archway Reading and Lecture Series to Host Author Noah Gittell

The Archway Reading and Lecture Series at the University of Dubuque will host a reading on campus by author Noah Gittell at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in the Multicultural Student Center at the Peter and Susan Smith Welcome Center.

The event is free and open to the public. It will include a question-and-answer session with Gittell.

A lifelong fan of baseball and movies, Gittell is the author of Baseball: The Movie, a definitive history of the baseball film genre. Featuring films such as Field of Dreams, The Bad News Bears, and A League of Their Own, the book chronicles the evolution of this genre with an eye towards how it reflects and affects the American experience. Baseball: The Movie won the 2024 Twin Bill Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 CASEY Award for best baseball book of the year.

Gittell also is a film critic and sportswriter whose work can also be found at The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York Post, and Slate.

River Lights Bookstore will have copies of Baseball: The Movie available for purchase.

The Archway Reading and Lecture Series is presented by the Office of Academic Affairs and Department of English at UD.