Author: Sam Toperoff

Sam Toperoff has been, in his various incarnations, a writer at Sports Illustrated, a producer/director for PBS, author of thirteen books, and a professor at Hofstra University. He now writes novels in Les Hautes-Alpes, the High Alps of France.

by Sam Toperoff May 20, 2018 0

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Globe Ball

How is it that an orange oblate spheroid—a basketball—can make an impression on kids that transcends time and space? From childhood to old age, the game becomes a measure of skill and desire that endures. And this is true everywhere in the world. A series of strange coincidences brought the writer to discover that maybe the globe is really just an immense basketball.

Listen to the SLR podcast with Jessica Pressler

September 13, 2019 - "If you don’t want to tell me something it makes me very interested in what it is.” Jessica Pressler is a staff writer at New York magazine and joins Jacob this week to talk interesting stories, screen adaptations, and empathy. Her article "The Hustlers at Scores," is the basis for the new movie "Hustlers," and Jessica discusses the unique experiences of having a story adapted for the screen and being visited in your own home by a movie star assigned to portray you (Hello, Julia Stiles!).