Bridget Carson of Missoula, Montana, on 28 Aug 08 discusses her poem "Soccer Fields, Fort Missoula." The poem is chapter 11 of The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).

Interview with poet William Heyen, 11 Sept 08. He is the author of "Parity," included as chapter 42 in The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).

Interview with Icelandic poetess Elisabet Jokulsdottir, 28 Aug 08. She is author of Football Stories (Communicate Lads), published in Reykjavik in 2001 and excerpted in The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).

Anthropologist Mark Nuttall discusses his original essay that forms chapter 55 of The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), "Arsarnerit: Inuit and the Heavenly Game of Football." Interview conducted 4 Sept 08.

David Starkey, professor of English at Santa Barbara City College in California, reads his poem "The Soccer Moms—1996"—chapter 5 of The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)—and speaks about the soccer-mom phenomenon five days before the Nov 4 presidential election. Interview conducted 30 Oct 08.

Gay Talese, who in A Writer's Life follows the story of Liu Ying, the Chinese player who missed the key penalty in the Women's World Cup final on 10 Jul 99, explains how Liu and women's soccer became a beacon for rediscovering possibilities in literary nonfiction. Interview conducted 16 Jul 09.

Sarah Wardle, lecturer in media and creative writing at Middlesex University, London, reads her poem "Match"—chapter 50 of The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)—and speaks about football poetry as literary form. Interview conducted 15 Jan 09.

Interview on 11 Sept 08 with Uros Zupan, a Slovenian writer who discusses his essay "Beauty Is Nothing but the Beginning of a Terror We Can Hardly Bear," chapter 35 in The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).