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It’s that time of year again, the time we’ve all been waiting for: Iditarod season.What? You don’t follow the annual dogsled race through a thousand miles of brutal Alaskan wilderness commemorating the...
View ArticleSports Writing Goes North
A long but magnificent read from Grantland: “Out in the Great Alone.”It’s an intense and unbelievably detailed story about the Iditarod, by Brian Phillips, a sports writer who “hate[s] snow” and is...
View Article“Give Me Your Little Paw”
In a luminous essay for the Morning News, Julia Phillips describes tagging along with the mushers of the Beringia, a Russian dogsled race that’s like the Iditarod but even more intense.It’s a definite...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Debbie Moderow
Debbie Moderow was forty-seven years old when she first entered the Iditarod, Alaska’s famously grueling sled dog race. A reader opening Moderow’s new memoir, Fast Into the Night: A Woman, her Dogs,...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Blair Braverman
I first heard about Blair Braverman on This American Life, when her piece “200 Dog Night” opened the May 2015 “Game Face” episode. During the summers of her 18th and 19th years, Braverman worked as a...
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