Recent Publicity

Pedestrianism was reviewed on the website for Canada's National Post. The entertaining review compares competitive walking to NASCAR, among other sports. Click here to read the entire review.

Matthew Algeo, author of Pedestrianism, dishes on the sport that captivated America before the NBA & NFL came along: competitive walking. Click here to check out his interview on KCRW's "Which Way, LA?"

Curious about the bygone days of competitive walking? Who isn't? PopMatters excerpted "Walking Fever or Perhaps a Foreigner Could Do It" from Matthew Algeo's Pedestrianism.

Read the entire post here.

Matthew Algeo, author of Pedestrianism, talked all things competitive walking on WBUR's "Only A Game." Listen to the entire interview and read an excerpt & interview highlights here. 

"150 Years Ago, People Watched Competitive Walking Instead of Baseball." Click here to read Gizmodo.com's feature on Pedestrianism.

Matthew Algeo, author of Pedestrianism, explains the suprising sports craze of the 1870s and 1880s - competitive walking - on NPR's "All Things Considered."

Listen to the entire interview here, and read an excerpt here.

Matthew Algeo, author of Pedestrianism, shares the backstory of the largely forgotten sport of competitive walking on WHYY's "NewsWorks Tonight." Click here to listen to the entire interview.

Matthew Algeo's Pedestrianism was reviewed on BookPage. "With a storyteller’s voice and a historian’s perspective, Algeo narrates the fascinating birth of American sports culture through the simple act of walking."

Read the complete review here.

Matthew Algeo's Pedestrianism was postively reviewed in Maclean's. Check out the complete review here.