When you first started out, I mean, I read the speech for pieces. It's not like someone starting out in their twenties and you hand them this assignment. So it made me wonder what you had been doing in those intervening years right? That when the opportunity came, you said, I know how to describe a Thlonius Monk solo in a way that that's not natural to a lot of people. Right. Well, I think, I thank you for that. Like I think a lot of what happened was a facility with language became a part of growing up for me because I had moved around so much. What do people say? What do they really mean when they say this
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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