About this episode

Scott Eden discusses his work as an investigative reporter and his new book on cannabis.

Writer and author Scott Eden is an investigative reporter whose work has focused on crime, corruption, injustice, business, science, technology, and the dark side of sports. His work has appeared in Wired, GQ, ESPN The Magazine, The Atavist Inc., and The Believer’s best-of collection Read Hard. The author of Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame. His new book is A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder and California Weed, just out from Spiegel & Grau. Welcome, Scott. The QWERTY podcast is brought to you by the book The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life. Read it, and begin your own journey to writing what you know. To learn more, join The Memoir Project free newsletter list and keep up to date on all our free webinars, instructive posts and online classes in how to write memoir , as well as our talented, available memoir editors and memoir coaches, podcast guests and more.

People in this episode

Host: Marion Roach Smith

Guest: Scott Eden

Topics covered

• investigative reporting
• crime
• cannabis
• memoir writing
• sports
• journalism

Keywords

• Scott Eden
• investigative reporter
• cannabis
• crime
• memoir
• writing

Sponsors

The Memoir Project

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wired, GQ, ESPN The Magazine, The Atavist Inc., The Believer, Spiegel & Grau

Books & works: Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame, A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder and California Weed, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

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