From the Arkansas Time
July 7, 2005

Melissa King of Fayetteville is getting big attention, and deserves it, for "She’s Got Next: A Story of Getting In, Staying Open, and Taking a Shot," which the publisher, Houghton Mifflin, calls a "sports memoir." It’s really a basketball memoir, the basketball being the pick-up kind, played on streets, driveways, playgrounds and in otherwise empty gyms, usually King herself mixing it up with a bunch of guys and asking no quarter.

But make no mistake, Melissa King is a fantastic writer, and just happens to wrap her prose around a basketball the way Turgenev wrapped his around a blunderbuss. She'll have you cheering her on, guaranteed.

“She’s Got Next” is from Houghton Mifflin/Mariner, paperback, $13.