Sarah asks David about how he reported and organized the sweeping narrative just days after it occurred. They discuss the challenge today’s journalists encounter reporting on a relentless and dangerous pandemic, and how today’s work is “exponentially harder."

In this episode, author Andrew Maraniss leads a conversation with David and John Feinstein who has written best-selling and revealing books about college basketball, baseball, golf, and football. Feinstein is a longtime family friend and former colleague of David’s at The Washington Post.

In this episode, David and Sarah are joined by Jane Leavy, author of groundbreaking and best-selling books on Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, and Sandy Koufax, and former colleague of David's at The Washington Post.

In this episode, we talk about David's biography of Roberto Clemente, the luminescent right-fielder from Puerto Rico, an athlete whose humanitarian grace and love for his homeland and working people everywhere transcended even his remarkable skills as a ballplayer.

In this chaotic information age, what news sources can you trust? How can you tell which news organizations are sound and factual and which are unreliable?

This episode has a companion playlist on Spotify here: https://spoti.fi/2xWoCEy

In this episode, David talks with Sarah about the early days of Motown, one thread of his sweeping book on Detroit in the early 1960’s, Once in a Great City.

In our second season, we’ll talk about the mythology of sports and whether sports matter, about Broadway shows, the search for truth and determining whether information is reliable, and uncovering not only my grandfather’s FBI file, but the story of how he met my grandmother. And we’ll have some special guests.

In this episode, David speaks with Sarah about his latest book, A Good American Family, The Red Scare and My Father, the story of his family’s ordeal through McCarthyism.

In this episode, David asks Sarah about her writing, from her early memories of working on school papers with an exacting journalist-dad as her first editor to her work for CBS News/48 Hours, freelancing for the Washington Post, and writing personal blogs, plays, and mysteries.

In this episode, Sarah asks her father, David Maraniss, about writing biographies about figures who are alive or dead, and why it can be hard to uncover the truth when mythology, officious aides, or imperfect memory cloud it.