Episodes
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Episode 84: Gary Smith
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Gary Smith is an American sportswriter. He is best known for his lengthy human interest stories in Sports Illustrated, where he worked from 1983 to 2013.
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Episode 83: Alexander Wolff
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Alexander Wolff spent thirty-six years on staff at Sports Illustrated. He is author or editor of nine books, including the New York Times bestseller Raw Recruits and Big Game, Small World, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. A former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, he lives with his family in Vermont.
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Episode 82: Dan Reed
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Dan Reed is a British documentary director and producer, known for Leaving Neverland (2019), The Valley (2000) and Terror in Mumbai (2009).
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Episode 81: Paul Cantor
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Paul Cantor is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New YorkMagazine, Rolling Stone, XXL, Esquire, Billboard, MTV News, Vice, FADER, Complex, and elsewhere. Born and raised in New York City, he began his career as a music producer and is now among the most authoritative voices in music journalism.
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Episode 80: Joanna Rakoff
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, the Elle Readers’ Prize, and a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller.
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Episode 79: Ron Sexsmith
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Ron Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has since recorded fifteen albums.
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Episode 78: Mark Blyth
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Mark Blyth is a Scottish-American political scientist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of several books, including Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, The Future of the Euro, and most recently, Angrynomics in 2020.
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Episode 77: Michael Lewis
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is the best-selling author of The Undoing Project, Liar's Poker, Flash Boys, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Home Game and The Big Short, among other books.
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Episode 76: Laurie Woolever
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. Her most recent book is 'Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography'
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Episode 75: Jenny Valentish
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Jenny Valentish is a journalist and author. Her latest books include 'Woman of Substances' and 'Everything Harder Than Everyone Else'