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Interviews with writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters about how they do their work. Hosted by Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff.

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Episode 328: Tommy Tomlinson

Tommy Tomlinson, a former newspaper columnist, is the host of Southbound podcast. His new book is The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America. “The thing that galvanized me was the death of my sister. I signed the contract November 2014, she died Christmas Eve of that year. She had been overweight just like me. She was older than me and died from complications, an infection that was directly connected to her weight. And that more than anything made me think if I don’t deal with this now, I’m not going to be around in 10 years to write this book. So, the book helped certainly. The idea that I was going to put this stuff on paper and expose myself in this way to the world and I didn’t want to be a failure at the end of it. More than that, I didn’t want to be a failure because I didn’t want to be a failure. I don’t want to die.” Thanks to MailChimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. The Mastermind (Evan Ratliff • Random House • Jan 2019) The Longform Podcast Live: The Mastermind book release party with special guests @tommytomlinson Tomlinson on Longform tommytomlinson.com [1:55] "You Can't Quit Cold Turkey" (ESPN Magazine • Aug 2014) [2:10] The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America (Simon & Schuster • 2019) [2:25] "The Weight I Carry" (The Atlantic • Jan 2019) [14:45] Longform podcast #317: Paige Williams [18:25] "The Hunley 8, The Charleston 9" (Charlotte Observer • Apr 2004) [22:20] "Something Went Very Wrong at Toomer's Corner" (Sports Illustrated • Aug 2011) [31:55] Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Roxane Gay • Harper • 2017) [36:20] Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout • Random House • 2008) [48:20] Southbound podcast

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