There's one piece in particular from that era that I wanted to talk about, which was the Cowboy Poets Conference Festival. "I almost never know how a thing is going to be framed until I talk to the people that are there," he says. The writer gets really nervous when he writes because he doesn't know how they're all going to tie together.
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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