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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne.

My next guest is Shay Serrano.

He's a writer, he's covered basketball and culture for ESPN, XXL, Grantland, The Ringer

and more.

He took a kind of unusual path to making their career out of writing.

He was born and raised in Texas and he was originally a teacher who'd write Nisperre

time.

It wasn't until he was in his 30s that he became a full-time journalist.

He wrote his first book around then too.

The rap year book is a New York Times bestseller and a critical favorite.

And he and I talked in 2017, he just followed that up with basketball and other things.

Basketball and other things is kind of like a late-night party discussion with friends,

but you know, written out.

There are cool illustrations too.

Serrano talks about stuff like great basketball villains, which NBA players get remembered

for the wrong reasons.

And he asks the important questions like, who's in the disrespectful dunk Hall of Fame?

He since followed up basketball and other things with movies and other things.

A similar book with movie rankings, hot takes and icebreakers.

In just this past month, he's expanded his illustrated series with another entry, hip

hop and other things.

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