Nice try is back for a second season, and this time asking, how much self improvement can we expect to buy in a box? I'm avre truffleman, and from mattresses to bidets to crock pots, join us as we explore the history, science and cultural impact behind the life style technology that surrounds us. Listen to nice try on apple, spotify, or wherever you get your pod casts. This week our guest is mitchell jackson. Mitchell also wrote a very inventive and brilliant non fiction account of his own life growing up in portland, oregon,. called survival math. He's a prize winning novelist.
Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
”What is 'great'? 'Great' isn’t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?”
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