(This podcast contains explicit content.) Philadelphia's own Buzz Bissinger is the author of the bestselling nonfiction classic on high school football, Friday Night Lights, which was turned into a successful film as well as an NBC television series. A former reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bissinger has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Livingston Award, and his other books include A Prayer for the City and Three Nights in August. Father’s Day is the true story of a father's journey across the country with his savant son, Zach, to revisit their shared history. Born with serious intellectual deficits and three minutes—and a world—apart from his twin brother, Zach's rare talents and the unique, sturdy logic of his worldview bestow a new wisdom on his father Buzz's understanding of character and intellect.

In conversation with Jennifer Weiner