Marshall Ulrich interview

The 285th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Marshall Ulrich, author of Both Feet On The Ground: Reflections From the Outside.

Launching today on Amazon Prime Video is the 10-episode World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji which features Marshall Ulrich’s Stray Dogs team of endurance athletes aged 60+ competing in a race for hundreds of miles across brutal terrain.

The ultimate endurance athlete, Ulrich has run more than 130 ultramarathons averaging over 125 miles each, competed in 17 expedition-length adventure races, and climbed the Seven Summits all on his first attempts.

Expand Your Reading

Here’s a great list of African-American mystery writers from the Los Angeles Public Library.

Maurice Broaddus has been published in magazines such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Cemetery Dance, Apex Magazine, Black Static and Weird Tales.

In 2012 Angry Robot published Broaddus’ The Knights of Breton Court trilogy in an omnibus edition.

Broaddus’ steampunk novella Buffalo Soldier was released in 2017 by Tor and was described by the New York Times Book Review as an “exciting” story packed with “alternate American history, fantastic technology and father-son bonding.”

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