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Episode 446 is a must-listen for any business leader looking to grow their influence and impact. Storytelling expert Paul Kix shares invaluable insights on how crafting compelling narratives can transform your career and company. Learn first-hand how top organizations like Disney and ESPN leverage storytelling to drive revenue. Discover strategies to uncover the limiting stories you tell yourself and reframe them for success. Paul also provides a behind-the-scenes look at his acclaimed books and how personal experiences shape powerful narratives. Listeners will walk away with actionable tips to harness the power of storytelling and become more effective leaders. This episode is brought to you by The Simple Sales Pipeline® —the most efficient way to organize and value any construction sales rep's roster of customers and prospects in under 30 minutes once every 30 days. *** If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback will help us on our mission to bring the construction community closer together. If you have suggestions for improvements, topics you'd like the show to explore, or have recommendations for future guests, do not hesitate to contact us directly at info@bradleyhartmannandco.com.
This week Heather is joined by journalist Paul Kix, whose bestselling book You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live takes readers on a sweeping tour of the chaotic streets of Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963. It's the story of the pivotal ten-week campaign of marches, nonviolent resistance, and overnight jail stays that helped turn the tide on Jim Crow segregation. Who can forget the gut-wrenching photos and video clips from Birmingham during these days? The images of young Black students being assaulted by police dogs and water cannons went viral decades before the Internet was available to go viral on. Paul walks Heather through his research on Birmingham, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and on King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference organization. He also calls attention to the important contributions of Civil Rights Movement leaders such as Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth (whose chracteristic maxim became the book's title) and Dr. King's chief of staff, Wyatt Tee Walker, who were often overshadowed by MLK's immense fame. Paul's book reveals how those ten weeks in Birmingham changed the trajectory of American politics, religion, and race relations.Sixty years later, the Birmingham story would also have a profound impact on Paul Kix's view of his marriage and family. As a white man, married to a Black woman, with a daughter and twin sons who identify as Black, he was deeply affected by the 2020 murder of George Floyd as well as other incidents that appeared to devalue the lives of Black people. Out of his personal wrestling with those events, and hard questions from his kids, Paul found himself called to remember Birmingham 1963. When Paul originally started digging into the work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he was not a practicing Christian. But the faith of the men who led during the Civil Rights Movement, didn't just inspire him intellectually, it also inspired him spiritually. This poignant interview sits at the intersection of faith and social justice. Heather also welcomes back our resident social media expert, Brady Shearer, to discuss another tool for your Social Toolkit. This week, Brady shares ideas for repurposing weekly sermons into condensed content for podcasts and YouTube. Guest Bio Paul Kix is a journalist and author whose last book was The Saboteur, a bestselling and critically acclaimed true story of the most daring man in World War II. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, GQ, and ESPN The Magazine, among other publications. His latest book , You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live, is the subject of this episode of the podcast. He lives in Connecticut with his family. Host Bio Heather Thompson Day is an associate professor of communication at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. She is the author of eight books, including I'll See You Tomorrow and It's Not Your Turn. Reach out to Heather on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, at @HeatherTDay and on Instagram @heatherthompsonday. Get Heather's weekly inspirational email delivered to your inbox every Friday night at 7 p.m. EST. Sign up now at: www.heatherthompsonday.com/links. Viral Jesus is a production of Christianity Today Host and creator: Heather Thompson Day Executive Producer: Ed Gilbreath Producer: Loren Joseph Mix Engineer: Alex Carter Director of CT Podcasts: Mike Cosper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Rundown We talk with Michael Wolraich about his book, The Bishop And The Butterfly: Murder, Politics, And The End Of The Jazz Age. Then, we re-air part of our conversation with Paul Kix about You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live: Ten Weeks In Birmingham That Changed America. … Continue reading A Jazz-Age Murder That Toppled Gotham’s Mayor →
The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Paul Kix, Racist Suspect. A White Man raised in Hubbard, Iowa, which is a Racially Restricted Region with a 98% White population, Kix is “a writer who loves to tell big beating-heart stories about larger-than-life people in precarious situations.” He's married to a non-white female and places that at the front and conclusion of his new book, You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live - which is a quote from legendary Alabama activist Fred Shuttlesworth. Kix focuses on the Birmingham, Alabama protests in the spring of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. drew national attention to the abuses heaped on black people in a town nicknamed “Bombingham” because of the routine White Terrorism. Children took the starring role in the upheaval as Racist Eugene ‘Bull' Connor used police canines and fire hoses to brutalize black people. We'll ask why Kix chose to revisit well documented events from more than 60 years ago. We'll also see if he thinks White people having sex with non-white people will eliminate the System of White Supremacy. Mr. Kix became very anxious and defensive throughout the broadcast when asked about his own White identity in relation to the material he writes about. #WhiteLiberal #TheCOWS14Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943#
On Thanksgiving weekend, an essay started circulating — and it was an essay that I felt like I'd been waiting a long time to read. The essay explores a troubling trend: a renewed skepticism of interracial relationships, and, indeed, of interracial families. Its author is a white man, married to a Black woman. And while progressives had applauded their wedding back in 2007, he writes that it now felt as if he no longer had the right to parent his own children.Paul Kix is an American journalist, and the author of You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live. His latest essay, for The Free Press, is “Liberals Once Embraced Interracial Marriages Like Mine. What Changed?”You can find Tara Henley on Twitter at @TaraRHenley, and on Substack at tarahenley.substack.com
Acclaimed Iowa author Paul Kix discusses his book about the 1963 Birmingham campaign, You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live.
On this episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks to Paul Kix about enjoying the time we do have with our kids, while being self-conscious of what we call work during family settings. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com
In this episode, Distinguished Professor of practice John T. Edge interviews author Paul Kix about his latest book You Have to Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin to Live, which chronicles 10 critical weeks of the Civil Rights Movement. From nuts and bolts questions on how to keep a story moving forward, and how to humanize grandiose questions like how to change the world through narrative this conversation gets to the core of why we write. Paul's weekly newsletter This Week Paul Likes offers practical writing advice and inspiration.
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Ryan speaks with Paul Kix about his new book You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America, how Ryan helped him shape his writing career after being laid off by ESPN, the painful realities of the Jim Crow south and 1963 Birmingham, and more.Paul Kix is an author, journalist, and podcaster whose wide-ranging work examines sports, politics, social movements, and world history. He is a former senior editor at ESPN Magazine, and has written for numerous publications from the Boston Globe to the Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. His highly acclaimed writings include his book The Saboteur: True Adventures of the Gentleman Commando Who Took on the Nazis, and his articles The Entrepreneur Who Is Dying to Succeed, Prepare for Death, and The Accidental Get Away Driver. You can find his work and writing course at paulkix.com, and on Instagram @paulkix and Twitter @paulkix.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail
Paul Kix tells us the thrilling story of the fight to end Jim Crow, led by the greatest figures of the Civil Rights Movement—and won by children. His book is You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live.
Best-selling author Paul Kix joins Drew to talk about his new book, You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live. Paul illustrates the most critical time in the history of the Civil Rights movement: ten weeks of protests that took place in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. And he answers the thorny question if a mass Civil Rights movement actually work in an age of information overload and mass disinformation? Do you want to hear your question answered on the pod? Well, give us a call at 909-726-3720. That is 909-PANERA-0! Sponsor- Caldera Lab, where you can get 20% OFF with our code DISTRACTION at calderalab.com/DISTRACTION- Birddogs, where you can go to birddogs.com/distraction and enter promo code DISTRACTION for a free Yeti style tumbler with your order Credits- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth- Producer: Eric Silver- Editor: Brandon Grugle- Production Services & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Defector! About The ShowFrom Defector Media: Former Deadspin writers Drew Magary and David Roth should really stick to sports. Sure, their new indie sports podcast will break down the week in sports: the Mets grounding into quadruple plays, NBA players getting testy on the court and horny on Instagram, Bill Belichick cutting 80% of his roster just to keep himself interested, horrifying takes from sports talk radio that need to be broken down, etc. But these two men and their guests will have their fair share of off-the-field issues they'll also have to address: stupid Funbag questions, bad tweets from bad people, pointless food arguments, and even less. Every week is a VERY long week these days. We could all use a little Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo–that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd–he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the full legacy of the Birmingham photo? And of the campaign it stemmed from? In You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live, Nonfiction author and journalist Paul Kix takes the reader behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's pivotal 10 week campaign, Project C, as it was known― in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time, he also provides a window into the minds of the four extraordinary men who led the campaign―Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Bevel. Join us when journalist Paul Kix shares the story of Project C, which provides a crucial understanding of our own time and the impact that strategic activism can have. Be a Friend: Twitter - https://twitter.com/lopate_leonard Support the Station (select the Leonard Lopate at Large from the pulldown menu): BAI Buddy: https://wbai.wedid.it
Paul Kix - esteemed reporter and best-selling author of the new book, "You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live" - joins Tavis to unpack the pivotal 10-week initiative by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to end segregation in Birmingham.
Paul Kix, acclaimed author from Iowa, discusses his new book about the 1963 Birmingham campaign, You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live.
We're happy to welcome Blake McVey back as guest host of the program today. Blake is the public services director of the historic Cossitt Library in downtown Memphis. Today is the second of a two-part interview with journalist and author Paul Kix. Paul's journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. His first book is The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando, and today he and Blake will conclude their discussion of his latest title, You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America which is published by Celadon Books.
Join Michael in his conversation with Paul Kix as they discuss his new book You Have to be Prepared to Die Before you can Begin to Live: Ten weeks in Birmingham that Changed America which tells the behind-the-scenes story of the momentous 1963 Birmingham Campaign to end segregation in the most dangerous city in America; frighteningly known as “Bombingham”. These ten weeks shaped the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.
We're happy to welcome Blake McVey back as guest host of the program today. Blake is the public services director of the historic Cossitt Library in downtown Memphis. Today is the first of a two-part interview with journalist and author Paul Kix. Paul's journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. His first book is The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando, and today he and Blake will begin discussing his latest title, You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America which is published by Celadon Books.
Buckle up for an epic ride on xMonks Drive! Get ready to dive headfirst into history as we chat with the incredible Paul Kix, author of the mind-blowing book, "You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America." Brace yourself for the unfiltered truth about the groundbreaking 1963 Birmingham Campaign that flipped the script on the Civil Rights Movement. We're talking resilience, sacrifice, and a visionary force unleashed by Martin Luther King Jr., Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Bevel. But hold on tight, folks, because this campaign didn't just rock their world—it rocked Paul's too, blowing open his perspective on race, justice, and love. Prepare for a jaw-dropping rollercoaster of gripping tales that'll shake you to your core as we uncover the raw impact of this movement on our modern world. This podcast ain't for the faint of heart, so if you're ready to challenge the status quo, obliterate discrimination, and ignite a revolution of compassion, then hit that follow, like, and share button ASAP. Let's join forces and shape a future where kindness dominates because guess what? The time for change is now, and we won't settle for anything less. Hop in and let's ride!To add your own thoughts reach out to me on my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravaroragrv/
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Today we take to the streets and are asking strangers what they're reading. Amanda, along with the help of Rachel and Lovie, head up and down Main Street in Ames to discover what the people are reading. This is a fun episode, and we hope you enjoy it. If you want to purchase a ticket for Cocktails & Convos with Paul Kix or buy a signed copy of his book, you can do that here. If you want to purchase a ticket for Cocktails & Convos with J.R. Dawson or buy a signed copy of their book, you can do that here. Don't forget to share the podcast with everyone you know! Keep the Champagne flowing and the books going!
Our culture is full of difficult, important, hot-button issues — and even if you want to avoid them, you can't always. Sometimes you need to discuss or address them. So, how? Paul Kix has spent a long time figuring that out with his new book, "You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live." On this episode, he explains how to do it with honesty and humility.
It's the second of two episodes we're doing with Paul Kix about the critical weeks in Birmingham, Alabama in May 1963. This day, in New York City, a group of civil rights leaders meets with Attorney General Robert F Kennedy to talk about the incidents in Birmingham and the state of the movement. The meeting is contentious, but it pushes RFK to ultimately support significant legislation. Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Paul Kick to discuss the meeting, and the critical role that Harry Belafonte played in the movement. Paul's new book is You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America — it's available everywhere now! Sign up for our newsletter! We'll be sending out links to all the stuff we recommended later this week. Find out more at thisdaypod.com This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is thisdaypod.com Follow us on social @thisdaypod Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia
It's May 11th. This day in 1963, a series of bombs explode in Birmingham, Alabama — one at the hotel in which Martin Luther King, Jr. was staying, and one at his brother's house. Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by journalist Paul Kix to discuss the bombings, and how they fit in to a momentous stretch of time for the Civil Rights movement, centered in Birmingham. Paul's new book is You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America — it's available everywhere now! Sign up for our newsletter! We'll be sending out links to all the stuff we recommended later this week. Find out more at thisdaypod.com This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is thisdaypod.com Follow us on social @thisdaypod Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia
EPISODE 1470: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Paul Kix, the author of YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO DIE BEFORE YOU CAN BEGIN TO LIVE, about the 1963 Birmingham Campaign - ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America Paul Kix is an author whose last book was The Saboteur, a bestselling and critically acclaimed true story of the most daring man in World War II. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, GQ, and ESPN The Magazine, among other publications. He lives in Connecticut with his family. His latest book is YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO DIE BEFORE YOU CAN BEGIN TO LIVE: Ten Weeks in Birmingham that Changed America (2023) Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1963, on the heels of a failed desegregation campaign in Albany, Georgia, Martin Luther King., Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference decided to take a stand for Civil Rights in “the Most Segregated City in America,” Birmingham, Alabama. In Project Confrontation, the plan was to escalate, and escalate, and escalate. And escalate they did, until even President John F. Kennedy couldn't look away. Joining me now to help us learn more about the Birmingham campaign is journalist Paul Kix, author of You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is “An Inspired Morning” by PianoAmor via Pixabay. The episode image is “Civil rights leaders left to right Fred Shuttlesworth and Martin Luther King, Jr., at a press conference during the Birmingham Campaign,” in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 16, 1963, by photographer M.S. Trikosko, and available via the Library of Congress. Additional Sources and References: “Albany Movement,” King Encyclopedia, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University. “The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),” National Archives. “The Birmingham Campaign,” PBS. “Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011),” National Park Service. “Opinion: Harry Belafonte and the Birmingham protests that changed America,” by Paul Kix, Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2023. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," by Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, Posted on the University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center website. “The Children's Crusade: When the Youth of Birmingham Marched for Justice,” by Alexis Clark, History.com, October 14, 2020. “Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights by President John F. Kennedy [video],” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dana and Kim are joined in this conversation by Author / Journalist, Paul Kix. Paul is the author of; “The Saboteur” and the soon to be released; “You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Live”. His critically acclaimed journalistic pieces have appeared in such publications as: ESPN the Magazine, GQ, Inc, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal. Paul's 2017 feature piece for GQ Magazine; “The Accidental Getaway Driver” was recently made into a feature film and won the Best Director award for Director Sing Lee at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Paul's psychological sophistication is apparent through out his writings and his daily stoic practices have helped him navigate inevitable change, life obstacles, and doing what is right. https://www.paulkix.com https://celadonbooks.com/book/you-have-to-be-prepared-to-die-before-you-can-begin-to-live/?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=socialdisplay&utm_term=paulkixfollowers-paulkixauthortrack&utm_content=na-buy-buynow&utm_campaign=9781250807694
Sonya and Paul Kix have been married since 2007. She's a Black woman from Texas and he's a white guy from Iowa. There were zero black people in his graduating class. Living as an interracial couple, Paul living as the only white person in his household that now includes three children, that forces their entire family to have difficult conversations about race on a regular basis. It has been more than 50 years since Loving versus Virginia struck down laws banning interracial marriage. And some may take it for granted that that means life is much less complicated for interracial couples. It is in a lot of ways, but in the face of today's national reckoning on race and systemic racism couples like Paul and Sonya also have to figure out how to best navigate race in their relationship. How can Paul be empathetic to how Sonya feels watching a police shooting of a black man, how can he raise black boys in a world that already sees them as black men, how can he understand what it feels like to be pulled over by the police as a black person? Navigating all of this can be exhausting for everyone, but also completely necessary. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
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On today’s podcast, Ryan talks with Paul Kix about the French Resistance (the topic of Kix’s first book), what we can learn from historical events and the people who made them happen, and more.Paul Kix is a writer, editor, and podcaster. Kix is a deputy editor at ESPN who both writes and edits articles. He has written for outlets such as The New Yorker, GQ, and The Wall Street Journal. Kix’s first book, The Saboteur, discusses the wartime exploits of a French aristocrat who fought against the Nazi occupation of France.This episode is brought to you by Fast Growing Trees, the online nursery that delivers beautiful plants to your doorstep quickly and easily. Whether it’s magnificent shade trees, fruit trees with delicious apples and pears, privacy hedges, or beautiful flowers, Fast Growing Trees is the best place to buy your plants. And their 30-day Alive and Thrive guarantee means that you’ll be happy with whatever you buy. Visit FastGrowingTrees.com/stoic now and get ten percent off your entire order.This episode is also brought to you by Warby Parker, the online vision care boutique that delivers glasses right to your front door. Warby Parker has an amazing selection of the most stylish frames for your glasses. And with their free Home Try-On program, you can try out five of your favorite frames for five days before you make a purchase, with no obligation. Whether you’re looking for stylish sunglasses or blue-blocker glasses for your computer, Warby Parker is the place to shop for your next pair of glasses. Try five pairs of glasses for free by visiting warbyparker.com/stoic.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicFollow Paul Kix: Homepage: https://www.paulkix.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulkixInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulkix/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/paulkixauthor/
We strive. We hustle. We reach. And when we finally achieve a major victory, it can be... alarming! Because now the pressure is on even more. In this episode, we hear from writer Paul Kix about how he nearly buckled under the pressure of a high-profile book and movie project, and how a therapist's advice changed everything.
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Iowa native Paul Kix joins us on the DMPL Podcast today. Kix, who grew up in Hubbard, is the author of The Saboteur. The book details the life of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, a French aristocrat-turned-resistance fighter in WWII. During the podcast, Kix talks about: Finding out about La Rochefoucauld's life in an obituary and creating a book proposal. Why La Rochefoucauld's incredible story hadn't been told to English audiences yet. Working with French sources to follow-up and confirm extraordinary details while knowing a limited amount of French. How he wrote the book 500 words at a time while continuing his full-time job as deputy editor at ESPN: The Magazine. The most unbelievable parts of La Rochefoucauld's life - and there were several to choose from. You can find more of Kix's work, including magazine stories and other long-form pieces, at his website, paulkix.com. Music credits: "Young, Tough and Terrible" by The Losers / CC BY-NC
Author and friend Paul Kix stops by to talk about his book "The Saboteur", his time as an intern at WHO TV, and more.
Andy and John Sears are joined by Paul Kix, a former WHO TV intern and current ESPN The Magazine editor who has a fascinating new book
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Paul Kix, deputy editor at ESPN the Magazine, and author of the book The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
Paul has a new book out called "The Saboteur," published by HarperCollins. You should read it. But you should also listen to this podcast, wherein we learn for the first time that Tim didn't actually fire Paul from "D Magazine." Maybe.
Episode Thirty Five Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. We have an upcoming read-along: February – Maurice by E.M. Forster. – Just Read – Chris DNF’d a book: Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay The Rules of Magic – Alice Hoffman (EF) Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival – Velma Wallis (CW) Cove – Cynan Jones (EF) The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir – Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (EF) – Currently Reading/Listening – Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II – Liza Mundy (CW) (audio) The Selected Letters of Willa Cather – Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell (CW) Someone – Alice McDermott (EF) What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky – Lesley Nneka Arimah (EF) – Biblio Adventures – Emily went to both the Guilford Library and the Glastonbury Welles Turner Library Chris is volunteering and spending time at the Institute Library in New Haven – Upcoming Jaunts – Chris is heading to RJ Julia in Madison to see Paul Kix discuss his book The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando Savoy Bookshop & Café has a New Year’s Day sale with 25% off everything Jan 8 – Kelly Corrigan in Conversation with Ariel Levy at the 92nd St Y – Upcoming Reads – The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin (CW) Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality – Pema Chödrön (EF) (audio) – Top Reads of 2017 – Emily’s favorite reads: Top Nonfiction B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good – Ryan Honeyman (EF) Favorite Memoirs Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body – Roxane Gay (EF) It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool, Too) – Nora McInerny Purmort (EF) The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir – Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (EF) Favorite Fiction The Mothers – Brit Bennett (EF) News of the World – Paulette Jiles (EF) Plainsong (Plainsong #1) – Kent Haruf (EF) Chris’s favorite reads: See Her Blog Post On Gift Ideas Mastering the Art of Self-Expression & More – Laura Thoma (CW) Young Adult-ish Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World – Sarah Prager (CW) Favorite Mysteries The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) – Jane Harper (CW) And Fire Came Down (Caleb Zelic #2) – Emma Viskic (CW) New Haven Noir – edited by Amy Bloom (CW) Favorite Fiction Pachinko – Min Jin Lee (CW) The Leavers – Lisa Ko (CW) The Gypsy Moth Summer – Julia Fierro (CW) Non-Fiction Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body – Roxane Gay (CW)(audio) Going and Goodbye: A Memoir – Shuly Xóchitl Cawood (CW) OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army – Ann Todd (CW) – Also Mentioned – Libro.fm – audiobook subscription service Zora Neale Hurston – Barracoon // Their Eyes Were Watching God Chicago Review of Books Velma Wallis – Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska Alice McDermott – The Ninth Hour: A Novel // Charming Billy Road to Success with Laura Thoma Dave Eggers – What is the What Jennifer Egan – Manhattan Beach
This week, we interview Paul Kix, a debut writer whose new nonfiction book THE SABOTEUR is one of the most thrilling nonfiction reads of 2017. It’s about French aristocrat Robert de la Rochefoucauld, who could’ve sat through World War II but instead became a resistance commando sabotaging the Nazis. And we also catch up with British novelist Fiona Mozley, whose new novel ELMET was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Lastly, our editors divulge their picks for bestsellers they think you ought to read and the bestsellers you don’t need to spend you time on.