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Episode 28: Errol Morris

Errol Morris is an American film director primarily of documentaries examining and investigating, among other things, authorities and eccentrics. His 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line is cited among the best and most influential documentaries ever made. In 2003, his documentary film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

Episode 27: Hamilton Nolan

Hamilton Nolan is a labor reporting fellow at In These Times. He has spent the past decade writing about labor, politics and a bit of boxing for Gawker, Splinter, The Guardian and elsewhere.

Episode 26: Jesse Moss

Jesse Moss is a Sundance Award-winning director and cinematographer. His new film Boys State, co-directed with Amanda McBaine, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, in the US Documentary Competition. The film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize and acquired by A24 and Apple for distribution. Boys State will be released on August 14th, 2020. 

 

 

Episode 25: Chuck Mindenhall

Chuck Mindenhall is an MMA writer published in The Ringer, SBnation, LA Weekly, and The Athletic. 

 

Episode 24: Jeff MacGregor

Jeff MacGregor is currently a writer-at-large for Smithsonian Magazine. He has written often for The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, ESPN, Esquire, Men's Journal, Details and Los Angeles magazine, among many others.

Episode 23: Wright Thompson

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.

Episode 22: Dana Vespoli

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.

Episode 21: David Hill

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.

Episode 20: Jon Lee Anderson

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.

Episode 19: Wesley Lowery

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.