Novelist Benjamin Markovits On Life After A Professional Tennis Career
Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis
English - November 08, 2019 06:29 - 29 minutes - 13.9 MB - ★★★★ - 31 ratingsTennis Sports carlbialik tennis thirtylove Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Novelist Benjamin Markovits rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his two books that touch on tennis: "A Weekend In New York" and its sequel, "Christmas in Austin." On the publication day of his latest book, and after a tennis match with his podcast host, Markovits describes how solitary an athlete's existence can be, whether in career or out, in a team sport or an individual one; how a retired tennis pro in the midst of a breakdown can make a lot of reasonable points; and how a career of competition can into an entire life viewed through the lens of competition.
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Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit Roll" and "Glass Android."