I think I write in a way that pushes the envelope and what these styles can be. The story also has, I believe hands down the most elegant description of a freeway on their pass that that I've ever read. So you've done pieces like that or the MTV stuff where you have, I think sort of huge freedom it feels like to kind of explore. And then, you know, you've also done real like celebrity profile kind of things like Mahershali or Sam Jackson from GQ and Esquire. How difficult did you find adapting at that point to those kind of constraints? Not as hard as you would think.
Carvell Wallace is a podcast host and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. He is the co-author, with Andre Iguodala, of The Sixth Man.“So much of my life experience coalesces into things that are useful… All those years that I was obsessing over this that or the other thing, all the weird stuff that I would do, all the weird things that happened to me, all the places I found myself in that I didn’t want to be in but were interesting - this is all part of what makes me the writer that I am today.”
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The Sixth Man: A Memoir (Blue Rider Press • 2019)
Episode One of Finding Fred
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (Bradbury Press • 1970)
Purple Rain (1984)
The Karate Kid (Scholastic • 1984)
“The Two Lives of Michael Jackson” (New Yorker • 2015)
“How to Parent on a Night Like This” (Huffington Post • 2014)
Wallace's Pitchfork archive
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