About Katie Heindl
BASKETBALL FEELINGS launched in 2018 (RIP, TinyLetter) and reconciles real life with basketball, expounding on the less quantifiable stuff — like loving a sport with problems and treating chasedown blocks as an analogy for living life.
BASKETBALL FEELINGS has been featured in the L. A. Review of Books and The New Yorker, taught in Harvard’s ‘Art of Sportswriting’ class, and will soon be a book of essays by the same name from Transit Books.
BASKETBALL FEELINGS has covered the disconnect between softness and power, the interplay of fandom and grief, intimate partner violence and the NBA’s terrible track record in examining it, empathy in sports, the false sanctity of stats, the discomfort surrounding WNBA athletes and their in-game physicality, and, many times, Russell Westbrook.
A digital magazine, BASKETBALL FEELINGS offers weekly guest writers, one long-form essay written by Katie Heindl, and a twice per month podcast to paid subscribers.