On Sonny Liston, Non-Sports Sportswriting & Confederate Monuments
A wide-ranging interview on NPR's Coastline that covers all the bases.
Shaun Assael
is an award-winning journalist, author and producer who covers politics, sports and true crime… sometimes all at once.
The Botanist Is A Plant!
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I’m thrilled to make my debut in Smithsonian Magazine with this strange but true thriller about the swashbuckling 18th Century naturalist Andre Michaux. Hear a podcast, too.
Does “Truth and Reconciliation” Work?
This deep dive into the global Truth & Reconciliation industry, written for Mother Jones Magazine, asks whether the feel-good advice it sells to aggrieved clients can really be trusted, or whether reconciliation is simply a ruse. Co-writer Peter Keating and I pick up the thread on MJ's podcast.
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.
Best Sports Book
The Boston Globe
A thrilling mystery.
Leave it to Liston to emerge as its larger-than-life anti-hero.”
Nick Pileggi
author of Wiseguy and Casino
As tough and pounding
as its subject.”
Robert Lipsyte
author of The Contender and An Accidental Sportswriter
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