Author Bio & Stories

Jack Hamilton

Jack Hamilton writes about music for TheAtlantic.com and elsewhere. You can follow him on Twitter @jack_hamilton.

  • May 21, 2012
    Jabari Parker and the End of Hype — The Clog

    Jack Hamilton on the best prep hoops phenom since the last best prep hoops phenom, and what we write about when we write about Jabari/LeBron/Steph/Nerlens.

  • December 16, 2011
    Cruelty and the Sporting Life

    "The agony of defeat" is a cliché, but it's also as much a part of why we watch sports as the secondhand thrill of victory. To what extent do watch to see the losers lose, and why?

  • November 15, 2011
    On Pitching, and the AL MVP in the Hour of Chaos

    This is an intellectually worthless exercise in any sport, but one which in baseball lays bare the sport’s deep and abiding strangeness, too often naturalized beyond recognition through pastoral platitudes and kid’s-menu jingoism. I, for one, cannot wait.