Episode 14 - Glenn Stout

Glenn Stout is the author of several acclaimed sports books like The Young Woman and the Sea, Fenway 1912, The Selling of the Babe, as well as history books about the Cubs, Dodgers, and Yankees. His latest book, Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, is not a sports book, but “a rip-roaring account of the Jazz Age’s most feared gangster couple,” which is out now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

In addition to his career as an author, Glenn served as the series editor for the entire 30-year run of the annual collection, The Best American Sports Writing, which published its final volume in 2020. However, Glenn has helped bring a new anthology to life called The Year’s Best Sports Writing, which will be published by Triumph Books in October and is currently available for pre-order.

Glenn and Terry get into the nitty gritty of the state of sports writing today, how much the genre has changed in the last three decades, what makes a great sports story with literary quality, his writing process and much more. 

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