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Nov 28, 2020

The Defection and Subsequent Resurrection of Nikolai Pushkin

Chaper 1 of a new novel from the Los Angeles Times best-selling author of “AMP’D,” runner-up for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor. In 1989 a young Soviet hockey player defects to the West, where he hopes to see Cats, meet Mayor Ed Koch, and win the Stanley Cup…

Thurber Prize

13 min read


Published in Truly*Adventurous

·Nov 16, 2020

Shooting at Kings

Before he was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and progressive icon of the Supreme Court, he was a good man in a seedy Chicago ruled by cronyism. The corruption case that made Justice John Paul Stevens. — Dig great true storytelling? It’s all we do. Subscribe to our newsletter and don’t miss a word of our blockbuster nonfiction. On the evening of June 19, 1969, attorney John Paul Stevens was playing catch with his youngest daughter, Sue, on the lawn of his home in Chicago’s modest Beverly neighborhood when the phone call came that would change his life.

Supreme Court

41 min read

Shooting at Kings
Shooting at Kings
Ken Pisani

Ken Pisani

KEN PISANI is an Emmy-nominated producer, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. His novel “AMP’D” was runner-up for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor.

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