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Mac Crane

Mac Crane
Mac Crane is a writer, sweatpants enthusiast, and basketball player. Their debut novel, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, came out in January 2023 and was a NYT Editors' Choice and Indie Next Pick. Their second novel, A Sharp Endless Need, is a queer coming-of-age basketball novel and is forthcoming from Dial Press in March 2025.


An Ode to Chelsea Gray: Mac Crane In Praise of the Poetics of Basketball

“When I watch her, I feel like I’m witnessing something beyond me, something heavenly and incomprehensible.”
May 13, 2025  By Mac Crane
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Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

Mac Crane Examines What It Means to Perform Identity on the Court
June 10, 2024  By Mac Crane
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The Shared Language of the Game: Marisa Crane on Trying Out for Pro Basketball

When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies
January 30, 2023  By Mac Crane
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Marisa Crane on the Finer Points of Experimental Fiction

“The experimental form should relate to and enhance the themes and narrative—not distract from it.”
January 19, 2023  By Mac Crane
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Reaching for the Joy of Our Unborn Child

Marisa Crane on Cycles of Loss and Expectation
July 14, 2020  By Mac Crane
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