In Search of Love and Liberation with Writer Carvell Wallace

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Oakland based writer Carvell Wallace has written searchingly and compassionately about Mr. Rogers, Michael B Jordan, abortion rights, race, parenting, bicycling, basketball and so much more. Running through all of his work is the question of how to be a good person in a deeply flawed world. “I’ve long thought that the only thing that really matters is how we treat each other,” he said. “It’s why I focus my writing on our shared humanity, and the struggles we go through to find love and liberation.” Carvell Wallace has just won the American Mosaic Journalism prize and its 100,000 dollar award. He joins us in studio to talk about his work. Guests: Carvell Wallace, writer; 2023 recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize - he's working on a memoir about childhood trauma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.3	Music From KQED. From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. Few writers have had as meteoric a rise through the nonfiction ranks as Carville Wallace.
0:55.2	For good reason, his keyboard presence is off the charts. He can take any raw material
0:59.4	and write something immersive, propulsive, deeply honest. Whether he's writing for his podcast,
1:04.4	like Finding Fred about Mr. Rogers, a GQ profile of Michael B. Jordan, or a searching piece
1:09.7	about parenting black children,
1:11.6	his engagement is total.
1:13.4	He asks more of us than journalism normally does.
1:16.2	How should someone be in the world?
1:18.1	What is it to be a good person?
1:19.7	Can we, each of us and this country find serenity, which is to say giving up hope for a better
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