As of 6/23/25
The Front Runner, it’s available.
I won’t be doing any travel outside the region, so I suspect the farthest I’ll travel for the book is Seattle and Portland. Everything else will be podcasts, podcasts, podcasts.
Some nice attention from a few podcasts, like Marathon Talk and a newspaper like the Wall Street Journal. We’ll take it.
If you’re someone who does running-related stuff, deliver me an email.
Anti-Social Media Feed
Been a long time … well, today Lit Hub ran a little essay of mine on unauthorized biography: https://lithub.com/warts-and-all-in-praise-of-the-unauthorized-biography/
—June 23, 2025
Pavlina Cerna interviewed me for Runner’s World: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a64673912/steve-prefontaine-the-front-runner/
—May 20, 2025, 12:53 P.M.
It’s Pub Day.
—May 20, 2025, 8:37 AM
This was nice to read: Lit Hub featured The Front Runner as one of its ten nonfiction books to look out for in May, “in surging prose worthy of the notoriously aggressive track star,” https://lithub.com/from-mlms-to-nuclear-war-10-great-nonfiction-books-to-read-in-may/
—May 5, 2025, 10:48 AM
A good one from Leah Sottile from Ep. 463, a live event at Gratitude Brewing.
— May 5, 2025, 8:35 AM
Received a finished copy of The Front Runner this weekend. It’s got a glossy dust jacket. It’s a gorgeous book.
—April 21, 2025
Love me a good Amanda Petrusich feature: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/24/the-subversive-love-songs-of-lucy-dacus
—March 19, 2025, 4:53 PM
Making slides for a talk I’m giving.
—March 5, 2025, 8:27 AM
I routinely delete a certain social-media app off my phone once a week, typically (IG). I need it (kinda) for pod promotion. Every time I delete it, it’s like that feeling when you scratch an itch: relief.
—Feb. 28, 2025, 2:07 PM
Sometimes I just gotta make a simple collage.
—Feb. 28, 2025, 1:05 PM
From the assistant of someone I invited on the podcast, “____ thanks you for thinking of her but must [emphasis added] decline.” That “must” feels really personal and unnecessary? Like, it seems mean.
—Feb. 28, 2025, 12:41 PM
So stupid … I went and read some old 1-star reviews of Six Weeks in Saratoga. Spoiler alert: I feel like shit.
—Feb. 25, 2025, 10:43 AM PST
I’m getting really good at replying to emails.
—Feb. 24, 2025, 9:29 AM PST
I did it! I finished reading an issue of The New Yorker cover to cover!
—Feb. 24, 2025, 8:59 AM PST
Stickers are meant to be stuck. No use in stockpiling them.
—Feb. 18, 2025, 11:43 AM PST
It’s pretty silly how excited I am about this old-school book cover I made for my Field Notes journal. Made it with a grocery story paper bag. Gen Xers unite!
—Feb. 18, 2025, 8:42 AM PST
Also, where did all the fun blogs and websites go? YouTube? I miss the old casual browsing of blogs and websites.
—Feb. 5, 2025, 7:40 PM PST
Don’t you hate that feeling when you click on a link thinking it’s a story, but it’s a 90-minute podcast and you’re like, “Damn, not everything has to be a podcast.”
—Feb. 5, 2025, 7:39 PM PST
When Hanif Abdurraqib writes something, you click the link, and read it. End of discussion. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/lessons-for-the-end-of-the-world
—Feb. 5, 2025, 10:26 AM PST
Turned in my book for the final time today. I can’t tell you how excited I am to not look at it for four months. You reach a point where you hate your words SO fucking much.
—Feb. 3, 2025, 1:54 PM PST