{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/699f8b52d15b2c2a126c1bc6/6a9f86efeea4f5ac9a565799?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Emily Nemens Noses Her Way Back to Health","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/699f8b52d15b2c2a126c1bc6/1788839555214-aa80c0a3-9409-4294-9e2a-41a7abc7b816.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Acclaimed author Emily Nemens discusses her recent essay <a href=\"https://www.thecommononline.org/the-back-meets-the-nose/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">“The Back Meets the Nose”</a>, which chronicles her harrowing experience with a debilitating back injury &amp; its effects on her running life.&nbsp; She catches us up on her recovery process, and details how devastating it was to lose her ability to run, sharing what it meant to be a runner for so long.&nbsp; She also delves into her baseball novel <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-cactus-league-a-novel-emily-nemens/2fe6723397293c08?ean=9781250785763&amp;bkshp-astro=t\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Cactus League</em></a>, talks Nikolai Gogol, and shares some of her favorite baseball narratives of all time.&nbsp; Plus, she offers a critique of Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.&nbsp; </p>","author_name":"Sebastian Langdell"}