John Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The New York Times and author of the upcoming anthology, “Sidecountry,” joins Brian to talk about his career as a writer and reporter. 

John talks about the process of putting together the anthology of his sports writing from The Times, and what it’s like to be a reporter who never re-reads his stories to go back over his past work. He talks about how he remembers the experience of writing and reporting his stories much more than the stories themselves. He also talks about what life as a reporter is like after winning a Pulitzer, what it’s like when one of stories becomes a verb, and the backstory of how Snowfall became a multimedia piece. 

He and Brian also do a deep dive into his journalistic philosophy, “I try to write stories you didn’t know you wanted to read.”

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Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports

Snowfall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

What Is A Summit

The Bear’s Ears by David Roberts

Barbarian Days by William Finnegan

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

How Lucky by Will Leitch

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