My debut in Smithsonian Magazine is this strange but true thriller about the swashbuckling 18th Century naturalist Andre Michaux, and the friendship with Thomas Jefferson that nearly ruined him. Hear a podcast, too.
Shaun Assael is an award-winning journalist, author and producer who covers politics, sports and true crime… sometimes all at once.
In this chronicle of the struggles of African Americans to play tennis in the segregated South, a five-year-old novice meets a doctor who changes history by building a clay court in his backyard. Will someone please make this into a movie?!
Back in the day, Penthouse sent me to Las Vegas to interview Bodacious, the meanest rodeo bull who ever lived. I found him biding his time in a Home Depot parking lot. What could go wrong?
The reviews are in, and Pariah, Showtime’s documentary adaptation of my book, The Murder of Sonny Liston, is a hit. You can see it on Showtime, and watch the trailer here.
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