Listen "First Draft - Carvell Wallace"
Episode Synopsis
Carvell Wallace is a New York Times Bestselling author, memoirist, and award-winning podcaster who covers race, arts, culture, film and music for a wide variety of news outlets. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, the New Yorker and other publications. He co-wrote the nonfiction book The Sixth Man. His podcast Closer Than They Appear explored race and identity in America and his podcast Finding Fred was nominated for a Peabody Award. His new memoir is called Another Word for Love.
We talked about growing up with unstable housing, how writing helped him look at himself and his life differently, acting and becoming a creative, self-forgiveness, depression and holding trauma in the body, sobriety, the vast topic of love, Star Wars, and being a sensitive human.
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We talked about growing up with unstable housing, how writing helped him look at himself and his life differently, acting and becoming a creative, self-forgiveness, depression and holding trauma in the body, sobriety, the vast topic of love, Star Wars, and being a sensitive human.
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