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.
For Self or For Country
Peng Shuai's sexual abuse allegation against a top Communist Party official is the latest courageous twist in her log-running battle for human rights in China. The story of her disappearance really started when she pioneered "danfei," which roughly translates to fly solo, as you'll see in this profile from 2014...
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
Other Books
