Acclaimed author Emily Nemens discusses her recent essay “The Back Meets the Nose”, which chronicles her harrowing experience with a debilitating back injury & its effects on her running life. She catches us up on her recovery process, and details how devastating it was to lose her ability to run, sharing what it meant to be a runner for so long. She also delves into her baseball novel The Cactus League, talks Nikolai Gogol, and shares some of her favorite baseball narratives of all time. Plus, she offers a critique of Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Follow us on Instagram! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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