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.” Thanks to Mailchimp, Pitt Writers, Native, and Villains for sponsoring this week's episode. @carvellwallace carvellwallace.com [02:15] Slate's Mom and Dad are Fighting Podcast [02:21] Season One of Closer Than They Appear Podcast [02:35] The Sixth Man: A Memoir (Blue Rider Press • 2019) [05:09] Episode One of Finding Fred [09:17] Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (Bradbury Press • 1970) [09:35] Purple Rain (1984) [09:40] The Karate Kid (Scholastic • 1984) [10:24] “The Two Lives of Michael Jackson” (New Yorker • 2015) [27:55] “How to Parent on a Night Like This” (Huffington Post • 2014) [32:24] Wallace's Pitchfork archive [32:30] “On Kendrick Lamar and Black Humanity” (Pitchfork • 2015) [34:11] “Thelonious Monk: So Plain Only the Deaf Can Hear” (Pitchfork • 2016) [38:00] Wallace's MTV archive [40:09] “The Roots of Cowboy Music” (MTV • 2017) [46:01] “The Negro Motorist Green Book and Black America's Perpetual Search for a Home” (The Toast • 2016) [50:28] “Mahershala Ali Thinks We Can Still Make this Country Great” (GQ • 2017) [50:29] “Samuel L. Jackson Operates Like He Owns the Place. (He Does.)” (Esquire • 2019) [50:57] “Steph Curry and the Warriors' Astonishing Season” (New Yorker • 2016) [55:36] “The Spirit of Miles Bridges” (ESPN • 2017) [1:02:07] Why Me? (Closer Than They Appear • 2017) [1:04:54] Working (Pantheon • 1974) [1:06:36] “How Do We Measure the Value of a Life?” (MTV • 2016)

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