On Running Alone in Good and Bad Times
I confess that I have never read “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” by the British writer Alan Stilltoe though I knew something about the story as a teenager who did a fair share of running, and not always on a cross-country course or gravel track. The story was published in 1959 and three years later became a notable film that brought a brilliant young British actor, Tom Courtenay, to acclaim. A few years later, Read more…