Episodes

Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Episode 23: Wright Thompson
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN.com and the author of The Cost of These Dreams. In 2019 he published a book of essays called The Cost of These Dreams. His work has been included in the Best American Sports Writing series numerous times.

Monday Jul 13, 2020
Episode 22: Dana Vespoli
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Dana Vespoli is an American pornographic actress and film director. She is a graduated from Mills College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in comparative literature.

Monday Jul 06, 2020
Episode 21: David Hill
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
David Hill's first book, "The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice," is due July 2020 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His work has been featured on This American Life, in New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, McSweeneys.

Monday Jun 29, 2020
Episode 20: Jon Lee Anderson
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Jon Lee Anderson (born January 15, 1957) is an American biographer, author, investigative reporter, war correspondent and staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Palestine, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East as well as during Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts with K38 Water Safety as documented in the New Yorker article Leaving Desire. Anderson has also written for The New York Times, Harper's, Life, and The Nation. Anderson has profiled political leaders such as Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Augusto Pinochet.

Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Episode 19: Wesley Lowery
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Wesley Lowery is a journalist at CBS News, formerly at The Washington Post. He was a lead on the Post's "Fatal Force" project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 as well as the author of They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement.

Monday Jun 22, 2020
Episode 18: Dave Zirin
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Dave Zirin, born 1974, is an American political sportswriter. He is the sports editor for The Nation, a weekly progressive magazine dedicated to politics and culture, and writes a blog named Edge of Sports: the weekly sports column by Dave Zirin. As of January 2020, he has authored ten books.

Monday Jun 15, 2020
Episode 17: Howard Bryant
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Howard Bryant is a multi-award-winning author, sports journalist, and radio and television personality with ESPN and NPR. He is the author of the Legends series for young readers; Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston; The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron; Juicing the Game; and Full Dissidence. The only two-time winner of the prestigious Casey Award for baseball writing, Howard is a senior writer for ESPN.com and is a regular contributor to NPR’s Weekend Edition.

Monday Jun 08, 2020
Episode 16: Dr. Scott Weiss
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Dr. Scott Weiss is the co-author of Confusing the Enemy: The Cus D’Amato Story and a licensed physical therapist and board certified athletic trainer based in New York. He is also a registered exercise physiologist and strength and conditioning specialist with over twenty years of experience. Scott was also a part of the USA Sports Medicine team in the 2004 Athens Olympics, the 2008 Olympics held in Beijing, and the 2012 Olympics in London. He has trained elite athletes at the NCAA, Olympic, and major league levels, as well as top performing individuals competing at the highest levels of international sport.

Monday Jun 01, 2020
Episode 15: Donald McRae
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Donald McRae is the award-winning author of eleven non-fiction books, which have featured sporting icons, legendary trial lawyers and heart surgeons. He has twice won the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year, for Dark Trade and In Black & White. He is a three-time Interviewer of the Year winner and has also won Sports Feature Writer of the Year on three separate occasions for his work in the Guardian.

Monday May 25, 2020
Episode 14: Rafe Bartholomew
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
Rafe Bartholomew is a staff writer covering boxing for The Athletic. He’s also a New York Times Bestselling author of Basketball: A Love Story, as well as Pacific Rims and Two and Two: McSorley's, My Dad, and Me. Before joining The Athletic, he worked as an editor at Eater.com and Grantland.com and hosted Hoop Nation for CNN Philippines.