Ep. 111 Ethan Strauss//The Victory Machine
Today our guest is Ethan Strauss, a basketball reporter for The Athletic and the author of The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty. The book is a workplace drama about one of basketball's greatest teams, but this episode is more than sports talk. We get into Ethan's love of subculture narratives, being a reporter versus an author, and the "sadness of success". This is an episode for both lovers of the game and the page.
The Stacks Book Club selection for May is The Giver by Lois Lowry. We will discuss the book with Sue Thomas on May 27th.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
The Victory Machine by Ethan Strauss
Anthony Slater (The Atlantic)
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Friends (NBC)
The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam
The Last Dance (ESPN)
Britney Spears Attacks Paparazzi With Umbrella! (Youtube.com)
Miss Americana (Lana Wilson, 2020)
Varsity Blues (Brian Robbins, 1999)
"An awkward conversation, plenty of smoke and maybe some enlightenment in Don Nelson’s poker room" (Ethan Strauss, The Athletic)
Warrior's Huddle (Warrior's Huddle)
Among Thugs by Bill Buford
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (memoir)
Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam
The Jordan Rules by Sam Smith
Seven Seconds or Less by Jack McCallum
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday
"Barack Obama releases list of his 19 favorite books from 2019" (The Guardian)
The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala
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