Pros & Prose

On this episode, Micah is joined by Rafe Bartholomew, one of the authors of Basketball: A Love Story - a tremendous new oral history of basketball. Together, they discuss how the book came together, and how they were able to turn hundreds of hours of interviews into a book. Also, they talk about basketball history and Rafe shares a number of his favorite anecdotes like how Spencer Haywood struggled to get a passport for the 1968 Olympics and what David Stern was doing when he saw the Malice at the Palace.

In our latest episode, Micah is joined by Ian O'Connor, the author of a New York Times bestselling biography of New England Patriots coach, Bill Belichick. Together, they talked about the research and writing process of the book and what made Belichick such a tricky topic to write about as well as about Belichick's life and career and what has made him both so successful and so polarizing.

In the latest episode of Pros & Prose, New York Times Bestselling author Jeff Pearlman joins Micah to talk about his new book, Football for a Buck: the Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL. Together, they talked about what made the league special, why it's been forgotten, and how Donald Trump helped ruin it.

In this episode of Pros & Prose, Micah is joined by Alexander Wolff, the editor of Library America's new collection, Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game. Wolff is the author of several previous books including Big Game, Small World and the Audacity of Hoop. We had a great conversation about the collection itself and the development of basketball writing through the years.