2026-04-26
33 分钟Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today has spent his career shaping modern journalism.
He 's currently the CEO of The Atlantic and previously served as editor-in-chief of Wired,
editor of the Washington Monthly and senior editor at The New Yorker,
where he helped lead the magazine's digital transformation.
But behind the public life runs another story, one measured not in headlines but in miles.
In his memoir, The Running Ground, he tells the story of three lives unfolding alongside one another,
his career in journalism, his complicated relationship with his father and a lifelong devotion to running.
From childhood runs around the block to discovering unexpected speed at boarding school to marathon racing
and ultra-distance events later in life, the sport becomes a way of understanding family,
ambition, illness and endurance.
Along the way, he introduces us to remarkable runners whose lives illuminate different forms of resilience.
Among them, Bobby Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon,
and others who 've used running to survive addiction, illness and spiritual searching.
It 's a memoir about fathers and sons, discipline and forgiveness,
and about the strange way the simplists of sports can illuminate the most complicated lives.
Chris Thompson, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you, Georgina.
Can I use your voice in that introduction in my audiobook?