• Episode 427: Kelsey Rexroat on Dealing with the Monstrosity
    Aug 30 2024

    Kelsey Rexroat is a freelance journalist and copy editor who recently reported and wrote a brilliant love story for The Atavist Magazine. Visit magazine.atavist.com to read it.

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    58 mins
  • Episode 426: Asking for Blurbs, Unauthorized Biographies, and the Mystery of Aaron Rodgers with Ian O'Connor
    Aug 23 2024

    Ian O'Connor (@Ian_OConnor) is the author of several best-selling books. His latest is Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers (Mariner Books).

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 425: The Most Brazen of Genres with Madeleine Blais
    Aug 16 2024

    Madeleine Blais is the author of several books, her latest being Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble (Grove Press), now out in paperback.

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    In the parting shot, I made an error in math referring to the number of hypothetical Mondays remaining in my life. The "correct" number is 1,872. The error has been scrubbed.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Episode 424: Tommy Tomlinson on Aiming for One-Word Summations, the Blurt, and 'Dogland'
    Aug 9 2024

    Tommy Tomlinson is a journalist and author of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show (Avid Reader Press).

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Episode 423: Rhana Natour and Eman Mohammed Take You Up Close for The Atavist
    Aug 2 2024

    Rhana Natour (@rnatourious) and Eman Mohammed (@emanit) collaborated for their Atavist story "Coming to America" about a teenage girl from Gaza who lost her legs in an Israeli airstrike and the journey she's on to walk again.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Episode 422: Thirty Years of "The Last Shot," Lessons from Obstacles, and Old-School Note Taking with Darcy Frey
    Jul 26 2024

    Darcy Frey is the author of The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, a masterpiece of a book celebrating its 30th anniversary. It's out with a new audio version performed and read by J.D. Jackson.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Episode 421: Cole Heilborn says, "We're Gonna Find What We Find"
    Jul 19 2024

    Cole Heilborn (@portsideproductions) is a filmmaker and found of Port Side Productions, a film company focusing on outdoor storytelling. His film, Inches to Miles, made in partnership with Athletic Brewing, follows three remarkable people as they train up to and compete in the Lake Placid Ironman.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Episode 420: Rebecca Renner Makes the Pig
    Jul 12 2024

    Rebecca Renner (@rebeccarennerfl) is freelance journalist and the author of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, And Alligators in the Everglades (Flatiron Books).

    "The reader is the one who creates the scenes. I just give them the ingredients."

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    1 hr and 14 mins