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August 23, 2024 6 mins

Tiger, Tiger: His Life, as It's Never Been Told Before by James Patterson  

James Patterson--the only major author to have nine holes-in-one--gets inside the mystery of Tiger Woods as only he can. How did Tiger become the G.O.A.T., what drove him to fall so spectacularly, and how has he made his way back to the pinnacle of golf? In Patterson's hands, Tiger's story is an unputdownable thriller. 

On April 13, 1986, ten-year-old Tiger Woods watches his idol, Jack Nicklaus, win his record sixth Masters. 

Just over a decade later, chants of "Ti-ger, Ti-ger!" ring out as the twenty- one-year-old wins his first Green Jacket. 

He blazes an incredible path, winning fourteen major titles (second only to Nicklaus himself) by the time he's thirty- three, smashing records and raising standards. 

Then come multiple public scandals and potentially career-ending injuries. 

The once-assured champion becomes an all-American underdog. "YouTube golfer" is how his two children know their father--winless since 2013--until he wins the 2019 Masters, his fifteenth major, before their eyes. 

But the story doesn't end there. 

Tiger, Tiger is the first full-scale Woods biography of the decade. In James Patterson's hands, this story is a hole-in- one thriller. 

 

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult 

In 1581, Emilia Bassano—like most young women of her day—is allowed no voice of her own. But as the Lord Chamberlain’s mistress, she has access to all theater in England, and finds a way to bring her work to the stage secretly. And yet, creating some of the world’s greatest dramatic masterpieces comes at great cost: by paying a man for the use of his name, she will write her own out of history. 

In the present, playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. Although the challenges are different four hundred years later, the playing field is still not level for women in theater. Would Melina—like Emilia—be willing to forfeit her credit as author, just for a chance to see her work performed? 

Told in intertwining narratives, this sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire asks what price each woman is willing to pay to see their work live on—even if it means they will be forgotten. 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from Newstalks EDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Twenty one to twelve on news Talks EDB. If you
missed it, our feature interview last week Saturday Morning last
week was US author Jody Picoe, who is an amazing
successful writer, like absolutely top of the pops when it
comes to the New York Times bestseller list, all of
that great stuff. I love that interview. If you haven't
listened to it, it is up on the news talks
HEB website right now. Put it on our Facebook page

(00:34):
as well so you can go and listen there. She
was just just super open, super interesting and engaged. And
now our book reviewer Catherine Rains has gone and read
Jodi Picoe's latest work, by any other name, Calder Catherine,
good morning check, So tell us about it.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
So this starts with a dual timeline narrative, So it's
set both in fifteen eighty one and in twenty twenty,
and it's told from two different writers' perspectives, and they've
got a lot in common. And even though they've lived
five centuries apart, so in twenty twenty, there's successful not well,

(01:10):
she's actually an unsuccessful playwright, and she finds out and
her woman her name's Milinda, and she finds out just
how tough being a playwright is when her college play
is critiqued to absolute smotherings by our reviewer. And so
we're a decade on and she still doesn't know where
she wants to be in life, but she found this
inspiration to write a new script based on her sixteenth

(01:31):
century ancestor, a woman called Amelia Bassano, and she was
England's first published poet. And then by chance, she decides
to submit her play, and her roommate Andre encourages to
do so, and after they have a little bit too
much to drink, they submit her play under a male
name of Mal and she turns out to win this contest,
and then her path recrosses with a critic that she had,

(01:53):
a guy called Jasper who just broke her enthusiasm for writing,
and a judgmental producer, and Andre, her flatmate, happens to
be a gay black man, but he's created because they
think it's him under this perfect play about a white
woman's story. And mel can't find a convenient moment to
come clean about what she's done and how she submitted

(02:14):
her play and she finds that it's slipping away. And
the other storyline is based on the real life of
Amelia Vassano and she's Italian, she's musically talented, but she's
forced to become the mistress of Lord Chamberlain, who oversees
theater production in England, and he she has lots of
text with Amelia to get her opinions and leads her
to write her own play to be performed. But to

(02:35):
achieve this she needed to compromise, and she makes an
agreement with a young actor, a guy, quite well known
guy called William Shakespeare, to act as the playwright of
her work, and she thinks that this is a small
price to pay to see her play reach audiences. So
Jodie managed to combine the historical and the contemporary with
this duel tail timeline, and she really explores William Shakespeare's

(02:57):
legacy a lot, so how it was possible for him
to write over thirty plays while he's a full time
actor and producer, and did he actually buy work from
others and could he have been part of a group,
And it's really opens your mind and lots of different possibilities,
and he writes a lot at the end of the
book about how things like this could be possible, and
it really makes you think and when you look at

(03:18):
his life, and particularly if you've studied it, it's fascinating.
Aside from that, the story is just a really good
story and these timelines and about you know, finding your place.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
In life, which is the Jodi bo thing, right. Yeah,
it absolutely is cool. That sounds great. So by any
other name, by Jodie Bicab. You've also read Tiger Tiger
by James Patterson.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
So this isn't an inside look at Tiger Woods written
by a lot of people who know him well, because
James Patterson isn't an insider. He's never attended any Tiger
Woods press conferences and he's never spoken to him one
to one, although to be fair, very few people actually
had that are reviewers or biographers. But what he is
is he's a great storyteller, and he's written over four

(03:59):
hundred books themselves, and he loves playing golf and he
has since his high school days. And so what he's
done is he's flowing Tiger story right from when he
appears in a local news program in Los Angeles in
September ninety seventy eight at the age of two when
he's featured on national television pushing golf demonstration. And you know,
he was nicknamed Tiger very early on, and he watched

(04:23):
sport and all of that sort of stuff and golf
and apparently he hit his first golf ball when he
was ten months old, and you know, that's his It's unbelievable,
isn't it. And that was, as we all know, his destiny.
And he set national records and championships. And he follows
that chronological journey through Woods' life and the role of
his parents, particularly his father and also his mother, and

(04:44):
you know, his tournament life and the things that he
faced about his racial bias and restrictions and regulations at
venues where he couldn't compete or does compete, but they
didn't terribly happy about it, you know. And then he
talks about his personal life and his marriage and a
collapse of that, and his private life and the affairs

(05:04):
and their drug abuse and all his injuries and all
that sort of stuff. And I think if you're a
massive golfing fan, you probably know all of this, and
you know, it's stuff that we probably all know that's
been talked about in the media. But what he does
is he follows it in a really well tailed storyline
and makes it easier for I think that armchair golf
enthusiasts to follow along, and you know about his comebacks

(05:25):
and his contributions and where he is now and leaving
Nike and doing his own clothing label, and it talks
about his son, Charlie's team and the state high school
championships and you know his vice chairman now as he
is of PGA Tour Enterprises, and you know, there's lots
of parts of that story retold the and has great
comeback and following, you know, following along, and it's just, yeah,

(05:47):
it's a really nice way of looking at Tiger Woods.
The story.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
It sounds like a compelling and comprehensive read. Thank you.
So that's Tiger Tiger by James Patterson. The first book,
of course, is By Any Other Name by Jody Picot.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
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