Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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Episode 421: Wright Thompson
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Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN. His new book is Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last. “If you’re going to write a profile of someone … you have to find some piece of common ground with them so that no matter how famous or good or noble or bad—or no matter how cartoonish their most well-known attributes are—it shrinks them. And once they’re small enough to fit in your hand, I think it changes the entire experience of asking questions about their lives.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring the show. Show notes: wrightthompson.com Thompson on Longform 01:00 Pappyland (Penguin Random House • 2020) 02:00 Bloodlines (ESPN Investigates • 2020) 18:00 "The Secret History of Tiger Woods" (ESPN • Apr 2016) 18:00 "Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building" (ESPN • Feb 2013) 18:00 "Holy Ground" (ESPN • Jun 2007) 31:00 ”Michael Jordan: A History of Flight" (ESPN • May 2020) 47:00 "As Clayton Kershaw Waits for Baseball to Return, a Look at His Family, Legacy and Future" (ESPN • Apr 2020) 49:00 The Big Fella (Jane Leavy • Harper • 2018) 52:00 "Pat Riley's Final Test" (ESPN • Apr 2017)
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Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN. His new book is Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last. “If you’re going to write a profile of someone … you have to find some piece of common ground with them so that no matter how famous or good or noble or bad—or no matter how cartoonish their most well-known attributes are—it shrinks them. And once they’re small enough to fit in your hand, I think it changes the entire experience of asking questions about their lives.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring the show. Show notes: wrightthompson.com Thompson on Longform 01:00 Pappyland (Penguin Random House • 2020) 02:00 Bloodlines (ESPN Investigates • 2020) 18:00 "The Secret History of Tiger Woods" (ESPN • Apr 2016) 18:00 "Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building" (ESPN • Feb 2013) 18:00 "Holy Ground" (ESPN • Jun 2007) 31:00 ”Michael Jordan: A History of Flight" (ESPN • May 2020) 47:00 "As Clayton Kershaw Waits for Baseball to Return, a Look at His Family, Legacy and Future" (ESPN • Apr 2020) 49:00 The Big Fella (Jane Leavy • Harper • 2018) 52:00 "Pat Riley's Final Test" (ESPN • Apr 2017)
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