Also Read: 'Friends' Is HBO Max's Most-Viewed Show Since LaunchBorrell is a journalist based in Los Angeles whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, National Geographic, The New York Times, and Outside. Borrell’s narrative non-fiction book proposal for “The First Shot” was sold at auction to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.CAA represented the television sale of Borrell’s “The First Shot” on behalf of the Waxman Agency.