Carvell Wallace is a podcast host and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. He is the co-author, with Andre Iguodala, of The Sixth Man.

“So much of my life experience coalesces into things that are useful… All those years that I was obsessing over this that or the other thing, all the weird stuff that I would do, all the weird things that happened to me, all the places I found myself in that I didn’t want to be in but were interesting - this is all part of what makes me the writer that I am today.”

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[02:15] Slate's Mom and Dad are Fighting Podcast

[02:21] Season One of Closer Than They Appear Podcast

[02:35] The Sixth Man: A Memoir (Blue Rider Press • 2019)

[05:09] Episode One of Finding Fred

[09:17] Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (Bradbury Press • 1970)

[09:35] Purple Rain (1984)

[09:40] The Karate Kid (Scholastic • 1984)

[10:24] “The Two Lives of Michael Jackson” (New Yorker • 2015)

[27:55] “How to Parent on a Night Like This” (Huffington Post • 2014)

[32:24] Wallace's Pitchfork archive

[32:30] “On Kendrick Lamar and Black Humanity” (Pitchfork • 2015)

[34:11] “Thelonious Monk: So Plain Only the Deaf Can Hear” (Pitchfork • 2016)

[38:00] Wallace's MTV archive

[40:09] “The Roots of Cowboy Music” (MTV • 2017)

[46:01] “The Negro Motorist Green Book and Black America's Perpetual Search for a Home” (The Toast • 2016)

[50:28] “Mahershala Ali Thinks We Can Still Make this Country Great” (GQ • 2017)

[50:29] “Samuel L. Jackson Operates Like He Owns the Place. (He Does.)” (Esquire • 2019)

[50:57] “Steph Curry and the Warriors' Astonishing Season” (New Yorker • 2016)

[55:36] “The Spirit of Miles Bridges” (ESPN • 2017)

[1:02:07] Why Me? (Closer Than They Appear • 2017)

[1:04:54] Working (Pantheon • 1974)

[1:06:36] “How Do We Measure the Value of a Life?” (MTV • 2016)

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