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Blog Post, Nonfiction, Sports

The NBA’s Great Positionless Shift

by Matt Giles September 1, 2017October 19, 2022

Royce White’s skillset was tailor-made for the current NBA. Why he isn’t playing in the league is a shame.

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Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Sports

The Man Behind the Punishing Barkley Marathons

by michelleweber April 28, 2017October 19, 2022

At the Bitter Southerner, Sarah Estes visits the creator of Tennessee’s strangest sporting event.

Quest For Solace

by Krista Stevens March 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Musher and Ironman athlete Katherine Keith has known pain and suffering: her daughter died as an infant and first her husband was killed in a plane crash ferrying a neighbor to emergency medical attention in Alaska. Not one to allow grief and adversity to defeat her, Keith won the Yukon Quest’s Rookie of the Year […]

Good Luck, Morons: Lazarus Lake and His Impossible Race

by michelleweber April 27, 2017January 25, 2023

The Barkley Marathons are famous among extreme athletes. The story of the race is great. The story of the man behind it is even better.

Quotes

24-Hour Competitive Rock Climbing: Finger Tips as Rough as Rhino Skin

by Krista Stevens March 28, 2017October 19, 2022

Why would anyone want to find out how many rock climbs they can do in a 24-hour period? For fun, of course.

Nonfiction, Quotes, Sports

The Lonely Life of a Pro Basketball Player

by Matt Giles July 19, 2017April 16, 2024

While playing basketball for eight years in six countries, Jackson Vroman was outgoing and personable, which is why his death in 2015 is even harder to comprehend.

Arts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized

What Happens Between What Seems Like All the Facts: On Interviewing Artists

by Jonny Auping February 8, 2018October 19, 2022

Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.

Books, Profiles & Interviews, Story

The Tether Between Two Worlds: An Interview with Sergio De La Pava

by Tobias Carroll May 16, 2018October 19, 2022

His new novel is about mass incarceration, indoor football, and parallel universes. De La Pava says that when “you dig deep, you start seeing the way everything is connected.”