📚: The Domino Diaries 🇨🇺 (shortlisted for PEN/ESPN Award) & The Grandmaster for Simon + Schuster (longlisted RBC Taylor Prize); repped Mollie Glick CAA
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For @Hazlitt I interviewed Jack Nicholson about “the biggest adventure of his career” & went to Spain to locate Michelangelo Antonioni’s Hotel de la Gloria, along the way the news of #AnthonyBourdain arrived:
hazlitt.net/giving-up-the-gh… #longreads (huge thanks to @jordanginsberg) – at Manhattan, NY
The Chris Jones (@EnswellJones ) story for getting a job at Esquire via Good Will Hunting janitor blew my mind:
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Spoke with Chris Jones (@EnswellJones )about his devastating memoir and how he put the pieces back together. It includes how he first got his job at Esquire, one of my favorite writer origin stories of all time.
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Spoke with Chris Jones (@EnswellJones )about his devastating memoir and how he put the pieces back together. It includes how he first got his job at Esquire, one of my favorite writer origin stories of all time.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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This week I spoke to Cian O’Clery, director and show-runner for Love on the Spectrum. While it’s marketed as reality TV it’s absent competition, riches, a recording deal, cringe zero sum battle. And yet the stakes feel impossibly high regarding love:
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On the latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Author and journalist Brin-Jonathan Butler (@brinicio) chronicles the disturbing history of chess’ greatest players and those obsessed with the game. Watch on YouTube and listen on podcast platforms now.
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Really enjoyed this conversation about my book and the world of chess with one of my journalistic heroes @ChrisLynnHedges:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=QIStD1…
Spoke with Michael Lewis about Who Is Government, Big Beautiful Bill, Doge, Luigi Mangione, and more uplifting and cheerful topics animating our blissful republic:
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Stanley Kubrick called 1988’s The Vanishing the most terrifying film he had ever seen. Had a conversation with Jim Shepard about his amazing Believer piece exploring why that is:
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This week I spoke to Cian O’Clery, director and show-runner for Love on the Spectrum. While it’s marketed as reality TV it’s absent competition, riches, a recording deal, cringe zero sum battle. And yet the stakes feel impossibly high regarding love:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spoke with David Gessner about his new book on the world’s most famous owl, Flaco. The Book Of Flaco tells his story. It’s awfully good:
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Can’t believe it’s been 24 years since this clip of the best robot dance of all time dropped
10 years ago I asked George Foreman if he had any interest in talking about Teofilo Stevenson. He immediately invited me down to his home to Houston. Such a generous, kind spirit and just an incredible character. RIP Big George 🥊
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Spoke with @Adita_Ferrer about her wonderful Pulitzer-winning book Cuba: An American History.
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This week I spoke with A.L. Kennedy (@Writerer) about her remarkable book On Bullfighting, which was just rereleased on audiobook. The book covers so much fantastic history of Spain, Lorca, duende, and explores writing on such a vital level:
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Last year I visited Havana and 2 heartbreaking jokes floated around: "What does a Cuban child dream of becoming when they grow up? A foreigner. What do you call a Cuban orchestra after a world tour? A soloist."
I wrote about what I saw for @JournalYear:
plagueyears.ink/LetterFromHa…
ALT “Fly Away,” by ArlĂ©s del RĂo
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For a 3 day novel writing contest, wrote a book about a girl I rode the bus with for 3 years, but never spoke to, as a kid. She read it at 27 and flew nearly 4400 miles to see me, hoping we would get married. – at Manhattan, NY
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Handwritten note from a major publisher rejecting my first (awful) novel, submitted at age 20: “This is the wrong book, however I believe you’re in the right profession.” – at Manhattan, NY
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“You go to an auction & out comes the Picasso, dead silence. Once the hammer comes down on the price, applause. We live in a world where they applaud the price but not the Picasso.” -Fran Lebowitz #PretendItsACity – at Stamford, CT
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New #ESPNDaily, with @brinicio:
Why one shocking loss sparked the wild cheating scandal consuming chess. What larger questions it all raises about a 1,500-year-old game.
And whether anal beads (allegedly) upset the greatest grandmaster of all time
🎧♟️ open.spotify.com/episode/7sN…
Thank you @briankoppelman and I agree entirely about @MagnusCarlsen…
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