Jaed Coffin's guest appearances

Jaed Coffin

The Moth

Talk Shop 

Paternal

Nicholson Baker

Susan Conley

Ron Currie

Richard Russo

Keith Lee

Alex Irvine

Michael Paterniti

Kate Christensen

Monica Wood

Brock Clarke

Bill Roorbach

Ben Rybeck

Phuc Tran

Sara Corbett

Ron Currie Jr

OwlTail

When Jaed Coffin was 23 years old he had recently graduated from college, and like a lot of people in that stage of their lives, he found himself looking ... for something. What he found was an austere and single-minded life in Southeast Alaska, training to become the next big thing in the sport of roughhouse boxing, a boozy, bloody, and rugged class of amateur boxing. Coffin chronicled his rise from wide-eyed novice to eventual middleweight champion in his 2019 memoir Roughhouse Friday, which the LA Review of Books called “a beautifully crafted memoir about fathers and sons, masculinity, and the lengths we sometimes go to in order to confront our past.”  On this 2020 episode of Paternal, Coffin discusses life in the small Alaskan coastal town of Sitka, the phenomenon of roughhouse boxing, and how a complicated relationship with his father helped steer Jaed into the ring, where he came up close and personal with a unique cast of characters looking to prove their manhood in the ring. Coffin also discusses his 2019 New York Times essay about his father’s need to go “Out to Sea,” an idea that offers forgiveness for men who sometimes or even permanently abandon their families when the burdens of real life become too overwhelming. Learn more about Paternal and sign up for our newsletter at www.paternalpodcast.com. You can also email host Nick Firchau at nick@paternalpodcast.com with any comments or suggestions for men he should profile on the show. Make sure you subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening, then keep an eye on your feed for new episodes.

When Jaed Coffin was 23 years old he had recently graduated from college, and like a lot of people in that stage of their lives, he found himself looking ... for something. What he found was an austere and single-minded life in Southeast Alaska, training to become the next big thing in the sport of roughhouse boxing, a boozy, bloody, and rugged class of amateur boxing. Coffin chronicled his rise from wide-eyed novice to eventual middleweight champion in his 2019 memoir <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374251956" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Roughhouse Friday</a>, which the LA Review of Books called “a beautifully crafted memoir about fathers and sons, masculinity, and the lengths we sometimes go to in order to confront our past.”  On this 2020 episode of Paternal, Coffin discusses life in the small Alaskan coastal town of Sitka, the phenomenon of roughhouse boxing, and how a complicated relationship with his father helped steer Jaed into the ring, where he came up close and personal with a unique cast of characters looking to prove their manhood in the ring. Coffin also discusses <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/opinion/my-absent-father.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">his 2019 New York Times essay</a> about his father’s need to go “Out to Sea,” an idea that offers forgiveness for men who sometimes or even permanently abandon their families when the burdens of real life become too overwhelming. Learn more about Paternal and sign up for our newsletter at <a href="http://www.paternalpodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.paternalpodcast.com</a>. You can also email host Nick Firchau at <a href="mailto:nick@paternalpodcast.com" rel="noopener">nick@paternalpodcast.com</a> with any comments or suggestions for men he should profile on the show. Make sure you subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening, then keep an eye on your feed for new episodes.

#79 Jaed Coffin: Bloodlines And Boxing (2020)

Writers talking shop in the original Portland.

Talkshop 17 - Jaed Coffin