This episode is a special one for me, and longer than usual. I'm speaking with the multidisciplinary writer, Adam Sobsey , author of Bull City Summer, a collaborative documentary project about minor-league baseball, which evolved out Sobsey's nearly five years covering the Durham Bulls for the Independent Weekly, as well as a biography of rock music legend Chrissy Hynde, which Pop Matters called "gloriously comprehensive. . ." and " a noble effort and a satisfying read."
He's written about sports and culture for The Paris Review, for Grantland, for Town & Country. He's won several awards for his playwriting and the grand prize for arts criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
What makes this conversation special for me is that Adam was one of my closest childhood friends, and we've stayed in touch since we first met in the late Seventies.
This is a particularly candid episode, as we recorded on Adam's front porch in downtown Durham, which displays itself in the background of our conversation in vivid voice. We spoke about how creativity expresses itself, inherited generational trauma, the innate gifts of creativity vs. the hard won gains of effort and study, and the similarities between writing and drumming.
Learn more about Adam's work at www.sobsey.com
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The Colours of Chlöe
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