Don Katz is the founder and executive chairman of Audible. Prior to creating the company, he was an award-winning journalist and author for 20 years. In 1982, he wrote one of Outside’s most popular and enduring feature stories, “The King of the Ferret Leggers.”
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Thirteen otherwise courageous writers reveal their deepest, darkest fears in our homage to the creepy, crawly, menacing world of phobias. Prepare to squirm.
There’s nothing funny about motion sickness. Really. I mean it.
Longtime Outside readers will tell you: The funniest story this magazine ever published appeared early in its history, in 1983, when a prolific writer named Don Katz persuaded the editors to let him celebrate the strangest sport anybody had ever heard of. His odd but true tale became an instant sensation.