Wichita Public Library

Author Event with Tim Bascom

The Boundless Game

Kansas author Tim Bascom talks about his new book, "The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Around the World." In partnership with Watermark Books.

Get on the World Cup soccer bandwagon and join WPL for an evening with Kansas author Tim Bascom, who will talk about his new book, The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Around the World, in conversation with local educator and soccer coach Jeff Roper. Hosted in partnership with Watermark Books. Book sales and signings will be available after the author talk. 

Book Preview and Author Bio:

Tim Bascom’s newest book—The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Around the World (University Press of Kansas, 2026)—celebrates ways that soccer transcends cultural and national borders. Bascom, who received his MFA from the University of Iowa, is author of a previous novel, a collection of short fiction, two collections of essays, and two prize-winning memoirs about years spent in East Africa as a youth: Chameleon Days and Running to the Fire. His shorter prose pieces have been selected for Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Travel Writing, also winning the Briar Cliff Fiction Prize. Bascom is former director of the annual Kansas Book Festival.