Episode 54: Matt Tullis
On this episode, guest host Steven Kurutz fills in for Matt Tullis, but with good reason. This time around, Tullis is the guest being interviewed.\n \nEarlier this month, Tullis\u2019s book, \u201cRunning With Ghosts: A Memoir of Surviving Childhood Cancer\u201d was published by The Sager Group.\n \nIn \u201cRunning With Ghosts\u201d Tullis, who\u2019s now 41, recounts the months he spent at Akron\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital fighting for his life, and the years that followed, when he struggled to understand why he\u2019d survived cancer when many of his fellow patients\u2014and even some of his care providers\u2014didn\u2019t. \n \nThe book, according to Kurutz, is emotionally honest and moving and, although it\u2019s a personal story based on memory, incredibly well reported.\n\nTullis is, of course, the host and producer of Gangrey: The Podcast. He\u2019s also the director of the Digital Journalism program at Fairfield University. He is an associate editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, and has been noted in Best American Sports Writing three times and Best American Essays once. He was a daily newspaper reporter for about 10 years, culminating at the Columbus Dispatch, and has written for SB Nation Longform, Sports on Earth, Nieman Storyboard and Yahoo!\u2019s The Post Game, among many other publications.