NOW I CAN DIE IN PEACE

The New York Times bestseller Now I Can Die in Peace is now available in paperback with a new afterword (and more footnotes) by the author

"The Red Sox won the World Series." To Citizen No. 1 of Red Sox Nation, those seven words meant "No more '1918' chants. No more smug glances from Yankee fans. No more worrying about living an entire life -- that's eighty years, followed by death -- without seeing the Red Sox win a Series." But once he was able -- finally -- to type those life-changing words, Bill Simmons decided to look back at his "Sports Guy" columns for the last five years to find out how the miracle came to pass. And that's where the trouble began.

The result is Now I Can Die in Peace, a hilarious and fresh new look at some of the best sportswriting in America, with sharp, critical commentary (and fresh insights) from the guy who wrote it in the first place.

Bill Simmons writes the popular "Sports Guy" column for ESPN.com's Page 2 and ESPN The Magazine. A former sports reporter for the Boston Herald, he founded the award-winning BostonSportsGuy.com web site in 1997 and was a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. He commutes between his home in Los Angeles and Fenway Park.