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A weekly conversation with a non-fiction writer about how they got their start and how they tell stories. Co-produced by Longform and The Atavist.
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Episode 150: Margaret Sullivan | Margaret Sullivan is the public editor of The New York Times. “Jill Abramson said to me early on, ‘What will happen here is you’ll stick around and eventually you’ll alienate everybody, and then no one will be talking to you,... | 7/22/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 85: Tavi Gevinson | Tavi Gevinson is the founder and editor-in-chief of Rookie. "I just want our readers to know that they are already smart enough and cool enough." Thanks to our sponsor, TinyLetter. Show notes: @tavitulle Rookie thestylerookie.com [4:00]... | 7/15/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 149: Ross Andersen | Ross Andersen is the deputy editor of Aeon Magazine. “One of the things that’s been really refreshing in dealing with scientists—as opposed to say politicians or most business people—is that scientists are wonderfully candid,... | 7/8/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 148: Anna Holmes | Anna Holmes, the founding editor of Jezebel, writes for The New York Times and is the editorial director of Fusion. “I think that Jezebel contributed to what I now call ‘outrage culture,’ but outrage culture has no sense of... | 7/1/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 147: James Verini | James Verini, a freelance writer based out of Nairobi, won the 2015 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. “That is probably the most alien, jarring thing about working in Africa: life is much cheaper. More to the point, death is very... | 6/24/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 146: Rembert Browne | Rembert Browne is a staff writer at Grantland. “I'm ok with not being at my most refined online. It's happening in real time and some of that is therapeutic. I could write a lot this stuff privately, but I'd rather just hit publish and see what... | 6/17/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 145: Ashlee Vance | Ashlee Vance covers technology for Bloomberg Businessweek and is the author of of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. “To be totally clear, I don’t cover them (apps). I like people who try to solve big... | 6/10/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 144: Cheryl Strayed | Cheryl Strayed is the author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things. “There's a long history, of women especially, saying 'Well, I just got lucky.' I didn't just get lucky. I worked my f*****g ass off. And then I got lucky. And if I hadn't worked my... | 6/3/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 143: Masha Gessen | Masha Gessen has written for The New York Times, The London Review of Books, Vanity Fair, and others. Her book about Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, came out in April. “The moment she said it,... | 5/27/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 142: Sarah Maslin Nir | Sarah Maslin Nir, a reporter for The New York Times, recently published an exposé of labor practices in the nail salons of New York. “The idea of a discount luxury is an oxymoron. And it’s an oxymoron for a reason: because someone... | 5/20/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 141: Stephen J. Dubner | Stephen J. Dubner is the co-author, with Steven D. Levitt, of Freakonomics. Their latest book, When to Rob a Bank, came out last week. “I’ve abandoned more books than I’ve written, which I’m happy about. I’m very... | 5/13/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 140: George Quraishi | George Quraishi is the co-founder and editor of Howler. “We raised $69,001. And that paid for the first issue. I call it subsistence magazine making, because every issue pays for the next one.” Thanks to TinyLetter, Squarespace, The... | 5/6/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 139: Andy Greenwald | Andy Greenwald covers television for Grantland. “People are enthusiastic about TV. People want to read about it. They want to talk about it. They want to know more. They want to extend its presence in their lives. People used to talk about the... | 4/29/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 138: Alexis Okeowo | Alexis Okeowo, a foreign correspondent, has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Businessweek. “Nigeria is a deeply sexist country. It can be difficult for people to take you seriously. But that also has its benefits,... | 4/21/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 137: Rachel Syme | Rachel Syme has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Grantland, and more. “You have this sense that you’re bonding, but at the same time you're also going to betray them. Because if you hear this quote that they say or you see... | 4/15/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 136: Anna Sale | Anna Sale is the host of Death, Sex & Money. “It's the result of listening, of feeling listened to, that people open up. I look like a crazy person when I do interviews, because sometimes someone will be describing something and I will... | 4/8/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 135: Scott Anderson | Scott Anderson is a war correspondent and novelist. He’s written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, and more. “I really feel that what’s at the root of so many wars now, modern wars, unconventional wars,... | 4/1/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 134: Dayna Tortorici | Dayna Tortorici is the editor of n+1. “You can't fetishize conflict so much. Because conflict does generate a lot of good work, but it also inhibits a lot of good work. I think people do their best work when they feel good. Or at least don't... | 3/25/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 133: Adam Platt | Adam Platt is the restaurant critic for New York. “My job was described to me recently as ‘the last great job of the 20th century.’ I think there might be something to that.” Thanks to TinyLetter, Lynda, Casper, and... | 3/18/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 132: Erik Larson | Erik Larson is the author of several books, including The Devil in the White City. His latest is Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. "I realized then and there, that afternoon, the thing that was going to make this interesting was the... | 3/10/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 131: Josh Dean | Josh Dean has written for GQ, Fast Company, New York, and more. His latest piece, "The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang," was just published by The Atavist. “I sort of reject the whole idea of something being beneath me. There are obviously... | 3/4/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 130: Mac McClelland | Mac McClelland has written for Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and others. Her book Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story came out this week. “I would just suddenly start sobbing, which is not something I usually do. I... | 2/25/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 129: Rukmini Callimachi (Part 2) | Rukmini Callimachi covers ISIS for The New York Times. Part 1 of this episode is available here. “Ever since I started in journalism, I feel like I'm perpetually winded. Like I'm just running as hard as I can to stay ahead of this train that's... | 2/19/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 129: Rukmini Callimachi (Part 1) | Rukmini Callimachi covers ISIS for The New York Times. “Nine out of 10 Americans said they were aware of James Foley's execution. That's a huge win for ISIS. That's what they want. I think they've realized that journalists are the crème... | 2/18/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 128: Jack Shafer | Jack Shafer covers the media for Politico. “This is a true story, not a ‘Brian Williams story’: my first report card said ‘Jack is a very good student, but he has a tendency to start fights on the playground and bring them... | 2/11/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 127: Molly Crabapple | Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer. She is a columnist for VICE and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review and Vanity Fair. “As long as the marginalized communities I’m writing about don’t think I’m... | 2/4/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 126: Taffy Brodesser-Akner | Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and GQ. “My writing career was something that was always about to happen, just as soon as the baby falls asleep, just as soon as I finish watching this five-hour bout... | 1/28/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 125: Anand Gopal | Anand Gopal has written for The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s and Foreign Policy. He’s the author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes. “When I got to the Taliban, I got out my... | 1/21/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 124: Alex Blumberg | Alex Blumberg is a former producer for This American Life and Planet Money. Last year he founded Gimlet Media, a podcast network, and hosts its first show, StartUp. “When someone starts talking about something difficult, when they get... | 1/14/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 123: Nicholas Carlson | Nicholas Carlson writes for Business Insider. His book Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! came out this week. “To me people are what’s really interesting. Marissa Mayer is a once in a lifetime subject. She’s full of... | 1/7/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 77: Dan P. Lee | Dan P. Lee is a contributing writer at New York. "I don't believe in answers. That's what compels me to write all of these stories. None of them ends nicely, none of them ends neatly." Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's... | 12/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 67: Evan Wright | Evan Wright, a two-time National Magazine Award winner, is the author of Generation Kill. "When people were killed, civilians especially, I realized I was the only person there who would write it down. I was frantic about getting names, and in the... | 12/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 122: Hanna Rosin | Hanna Rosin is a senior editor at The Atlantic and a founder and editor at DoubleX. “I often think of reporting as dating, or even speed dating. You’re looking for someone where there’s a spark there between you and them. Sometimes... | 12/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 121: Meghan Daum | Meghan Daum's latest book of essays is The Unspeakable. “As writers we think, well there has to be closure, there has to be a beginning middle end, the character has to go through a change. And then in life we're supposed to have some sort of... | 12/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 120: Katie J.M. Baker | Katie J.M. Baker is a reporter for BuzzFeed. “I went to Steubenville a year after the sexual assault to cover their first big football game of the season and I was face-to-face with these people who I had been writing about without knowing much... | 12/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 119: Alec Wilkinson | Alec Wilkinson is a staff writer for The New Yorker. “My hero was Joseph Mitchell, that was how you did reporting. There was nothing conniving about it or cunning — you just simply kept returning and kept returning.” Thanks to... | 11/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 118: Emma Carmichael | Emma Carmichael, a former editor at Deadspin and The Hairpin, is the editor in chief of Jezebel. "Online feminism has more and more rules lately. There are only so many things you can say. And while our opinions are getting more constrained online,... | 11/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 117: Reihan Salam | Reihan Salam is the executive editor of National Review. "I’m incredibly curious about other people. I’m curious about what they think of as the constraints operating on their lives. Why do they think what they think? If I weren’t... | 11/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 116: Jake Halpern | Jake Halpern, a contributor to This American Life, has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. His latest book is Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld. "I test out my stories on my kids. You... | 11/5/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 115: Jen Percy | Jen Percy is the author of Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism. "As is the nature of obsession, you just start gathering materials, hoarding documents and taking notes in a way that’s totally chaotic and overwhelming. You don’t even care yet... | 10/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 114: Jessica Pressler | Jessica Pressler writes for New York, Elle and GQ. "I really like hustlers, stories about someone who comes out of nowhere and tries to do it for themselves. Those people are just easy to like. Even when they're sort of terrible, they're easy to... | 10/22/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 113: Wendy MacNaughton | Wendy MacNaughton is a graphic journalist and the co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them. "We mostly hear stories from big personalities who already have a spotlight on them. I think that everybody carries stories that are... | 10/15/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 112: Don Van Natta Jr. | Don Van Natta Jr., a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, writes for ESPN and is the author of several books, including Wonder Girl. "The nature of the kind of work I do as an investigative reporter, every story you do is going to get attacked and the... | 10/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award | Today we are re-airing our February 2013 interivew with our friend Matt Power, who died earlier this year while on assignment in Uganda, to help raise money for Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award. We have also reprinted Matt's classic... | 10/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 111: Anne Helen Petersen | Anne Helen Petersen writes for BuzzFeed. Her book Scandals of Classic Hollywood is out this week. "I was obsessed with Entertainment Weekly from the very first issue and I obsessively catalogued it. I made a database on my Apple IIe where I put in... | 10/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 110: Chris Hayes | Chris Hayes hosts All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC and is an editor-at-large for The Nation. "The instability was so intense and the anguish and frustration were so intense that there wasn’t a ton of time to think through, 'Well, what is my... | 9/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 109: Buzz Bissinger | Buzz Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has written for Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, GQ and more. He is the author of several books, including Friday Night Lights. "It’s quiet. And I really felt I needed that quiet. People say,... | 9/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 108: Sean Wilsey | Sean Wilsey has written for The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The New York Times, and McSweeney’s Quarterly, where he is an editor-at-large. His latest book is More Curious. "I’m actually apparently a fairly competent person at... | 9/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 107: Emily Bazelon | Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and the author of Sticks and Stones. "There’s nothing purely, or maybe even at all, altruistic about this exchange. It’s transactional in the Janet Malcolm classical sense,... | 9/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 106: Zach Baron | Zach Baron is a staff writer for GQ. "People love to put celebrity stuff or culture stuff lower on the hierarchy than, say, a serial killer story. I think they're all the same story. If you crack the human, you crack the human." Thanks to... | 8/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 105: Ben Anderson | Ben Anderson is a war journalist and documentary filmmaker. His latest book, The Interpreters, is available free from Vice. "You're surrounded by people who are so poor. Maybe their family members have already been killed. And they still... | 8/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 104: Lewis Lapham | Lewis Lapham, formerly the editor of Harper's, is the founder of Lapham's Quarterly. "The best part of my job was to come across a manuscript. You never knew what would show up. ... I always had the sense of opening a present, hoping to be both... | 8/13/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 103: Adam Higginbotham | Adam Higginbotham has written for Businessweek, Wired and The New Yorker. His latest story is A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite, for The Atavist. "There's always a narrative in a crime story. Something has always gone wrong. These guys are always in... | 8/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 102: Brin-Jonathan Butler | Brin-Jonathan Butler has written for SB Nation, ESPN, and The New York Times. His new book is A Cuban Boxer’s Journey. "He smiled at me and just to make small talk, I said, 'You know, you’ve got this gold grill on your teeth. Where did... | 7/30/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 101: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah | Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah has written for The Believer, The LA Review of Books, Transition and The Paris Review. "If He Hollers Let Him Go," her essay on Dave Chappelle, was a 2014 National Magazine Award finalist. "So the stakes are high.... | 7/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 100th Episode | A look back at some of our favorite moments from the first 99. Thanks to our sponsors, TinyLetter and Squarespace. Show Notes: [4:45] #3: David Grann [7:00] #4: Jon Mooallem [10:10] #7: Ta-Nehisi Coates [14:15] #9: Jeanne Marie... | 7/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 99: John Heilemann | John Heilemann is the managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and the co-author of Game Change and Double Down. "If you're a writer, and you're not an a*****e, you want the maximum number of people to read your stuff. There's nothing wrong with that.... | 7/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 75: George Saunders | George Saunders has written for The New Yorker and GQ. His latest collection of short stories is Tenth of December. "Maybe you would understand your artistry to be: put me anywhere. I'll find human beings, I'll find human interest, I'll find... | 7/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 98: Sarah Nicole Prickett | Sarah Nicole Prickett is the founding editor of Adult. "I'll admit to being resistant to the 'by women for women' label that Adult had before because I saw it as being just 'by women,' period. That’s way more feminist than making something... | 6/25/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 97: Ta-Nehisi Coates | Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic. His latest cover story is "The Case for Reparations." "The writer hopes for change, but writers can't assume that their work is going to cause change." Thanks to TinyLetter and I Am Zlatan,... | 6/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 96: Nathaniel Rich | Nathaniel Rich writes for Rolling Stone, Harper's and the New York Times Magazine. His latest novel is Odds Against Tomorrow. "I'm drawn to obsession. I think I'm an obsessive in a way, probably most writers are. It's an obsessive act to sit at a... | 6/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 95: Wesley Morris | Wesley Morris, a Pulitzer Prize winner, covers film at Grantland. "That's what writing about race and popular culture is for me: it's crime reporting. It's not me looking for an agenda when I go to the movies ... but I feel a moral responsibility to... | 6/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 94: Gary Smith | Gary Smith retired last month after more than 30 years of writing for Sports Illustrated. "We were on the Santa Monica Freeway, Ali's driving 70 miles an hour and his eyes are drifting asleep—the medication for Parkinson's would do that to... | 5/28/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 93: Michael Paterniti | Michael Paterniti, a correspondent for GQ, has also written for Esquire, Rolling Stone and Outside. His latest book is The Telling Room. "I want to see it, whatever it is. If it's war, if it's suffering, if it's complete, unbridled elation, I just... | 5/21/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 92: Leslie Jamison | Leslie Jamison has written for The Believer, Harper's and The New York Times. Her latest book is The Empathy Exams. "I sort of love imagining a small army of 22-year-old men who are just like, 'F**k that book, I wish it was never published.'" Thanks... | 5/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 91: Michael Lewis | Michael Lewis has written for The New Republic, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine. His latest book is Flash Boys. "When you're telling a story, you're essentially playing the cards you're dealt. ... Sometimes the hand is very easy to... | 5/7/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 90: Susan Dominus | Susan Dominus is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine. "A lot of reporting is really just hanging around and not going home until something interesting happens." Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode. Show... | 4/30/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 89: Alice Gregory | Alice Gregory has written for n+1, GQ, The New York Times and Harper's. "If you don't have a real story with a beginning, middle and an end, you owe it to the reader to kind of serve as their chaperone." Thanks to TinyLetter and EA SPORTS FIFA... | 4/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 88: Sam Biddle | Sam Biddle writes for Valleywag. "It's a lot of overgrown, entitled manchildren pulling price tags out of the ether and passing them around. Considering Silicon Valley worthy of contempt is the first premise that we work from." Thanks to TinyLetter... | 4/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 87: Amanda Hess | Amanda Hess, a staff writer at Slate, has also written for Pacific Standard, GOOD, and ESPN the Magazine. "I ended up not loving the fact that I was getting a bunch of calls from MSNBC and CNN, who mostly wanted to talk about people threatening to... | 4/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 86: Mattathias Schwartz | Mattathias Schwartz has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Harper's. "I figure it's like digging through a wall with a spoon: if you spend enough time at it eventually you get to the other side." Thanks to TinyLetter and... | 4/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 85: Tavi Gevinson | Tavi Gevinson is the founder and editor-in-chief of Rookie. "I just want our readers to know that they are already smart enough and cool enough." Thanks to this week's sponsors, TinyLetter and Atavist Books. Show... | 3/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 84: Sabrina Rubin Erdely | Sabrina Rubin Erdely, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, has also written for GQ, Philadelphia and SELF. "I think that people are, by their nature, good and want to act rightly. So I'm very interested in why people do these things... | 3/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matthew Power (1974-2014) | "The kind of stories I've gotten to do have involved fulfilling my childhood fantasies of having an adventurous life. Even though I don't make a ton of money doing it, I've never felt like I was missing out on something." Our friend Matt Power, a... | 3/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 83, Part 2: Lawrence Wright, Live from Austin | Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower and Going Clear, is a staff writer for The New Yorker. "If I had the chance to interview Osama Bin Laden, should I kill him? It’s a fair question. Suppose we’re having dinner... | 3/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 83, Part 1: Pamela Colloff & Mimi Swartz, Live from Austin | Pamela Colloff and Mimi Swartz are executive editors of Texas Monthly. Colloff: "That sense of loss, that sense of normal life turning on a dime is something that, in a very different way, I’ve experienced. And I carry... | 3/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 82: Jennifer Senior | Jennifer Senior is a contributing editor at New York and the author of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood. "I've had moments in motherhood that have been close to something like religious. But I don't think social scientists say... | 3/5/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 81: Kevin Roose | Kevin Roose, a writer at New York, has contributed to The New York Times, GQ and Esquire. His latest book is Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits. "Google will give you away. I feel like one undercover book is all... | 2/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 80: Wil S. Hylton | Wil S. Hylton, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Vanished. "I despise the f*****g nut graf. I think it's a joke, a cop out. The story probably should be about something larger than itself but if you have to... | 2/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 79: David Kushner | David Kushner, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired and The Atavist. "The minute you see an incredible character, you know. The only thing I can compare it to is bowling, not that I'm much of a... | 2/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 78: Ariel Levy | Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker. "I like an older awesome lady, I don't think enough is written about older awesome ladies and I don't think there are enough role models for younger awesome ladies. It’s great fun hanging out... | 2/5/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 77: Dan P. Lee | Dan P. Lee is a contributing writer at New York. "I don't believe in answers. That's what compels me to write all of these stories. None of them ends nicely, none of them ends neatly." Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's... | 1/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 76: Roger D. Hodge | Roger D. Hodge is the editor of Oxford American. "My career isn't all that interesting insofar as I've been an editor. I'm much more interested in talking about writers and stories. That's the main thing: telling these stories, creating this... | 1/22/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 75: George Saunders | George Saunders has written for The New Yorker and GQ. His latest collection of short stories is Tenth of December. "Maybe you would understand your artistry to be: put me anywhere. I'll find human beings, I'll find human interest, I'll find... | 1/15/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 74: Jon Mooallem | Jon Mooallem, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Wild Ones and American Hippopotamus, the latest story from The Atavist. "I'm terrible at writing nut graphs. I never know why people should keep reading.... | 1/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 73: Joe Sexton | Joe Sexton is a senior editor at ProPublica and a former reporter and editor at the New York Times, where he led the team that produced "Snow Fall." "My experience in a newspaper newsroom over the years has been: The word you hear least often, the... | 12/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 72: Andrew Leland | Andrew Leland is an editor at The Believer and hosts The Organist. "I think a good editor has a strong stomach for crazy a*****es. Because often crazy a*****es are really brilliant great writers." Thanks to TinyLetter and Squarespace for... | 12/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 71: Jason Fagone | Jason Fagone, a contributing editor at Wired and a writer-at-large for Philadelphia, is the author of Ingenious. "It seemed like all the big guys in American society had let us down, all the elites. And here was a contest that was explicitly... | 12/4/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 70: Amy Wallace | Amy Wallace is an editor-at-large for Los Angeles and a correspondent for GQ . "I've written about the anti-vaccine movement. I love true crime. I've written a lot of murder stories. The thing that unites all of them—whether it's a celebrity... | 11/27/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 69: Rachel Aviv | Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker. "If I'm writing about the criminal justice system, I wish I were a lawyer. If I'm writing about psychiatry, I wish I were a psychiatrist. I have often filled out half my application to get a Ph.D in... | 11/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 68: Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery | Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery are the co-editors of Mother Jones. "We probably pay more attention to our fact-checking and our research than almost everybody in our industry. By the time we publish stuff, we make sure it's unimpeachable... | 11/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 67: Evan Wright | Evan Wright, a two-time National Magazine Award winner, is the author of Generation Kill. "When people were killed, civilians especially, I realized I was the only person there who would write it down. I was frantic about getting names, and in the... | 11/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 66: Andy Ward | Andy Ward, a former editor at Esquire and GQ, is the editorial director of nonfiction at Random House. "How you gain that trust is a hard thing to quantify. The way I try do it is by caring. If you don't care about every word and every sentence in... | 10/30/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 65: Elizabeth Wurtzel | Elizabeth Wurtzel is the author of four books, including Prozac Nation. "It's not that hard to be a lawyer. Any fool can be a lawyer. It's really hard to be a writer. You have to be born with incredible amounts of talent. Then you have to work... | 10/23/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 64: Gay Talese | Gay Talese, who wrote for Esquire in the 1960s and currently contributes to The New Yorker, is the author of several books. His latest is A Writer's Life. "I want to know how people did what they did. And I want to know how that compares with how I... | 10/17/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 63: Jon Ronson | Jon Ronson, a contributor to This American Life, The Guardian and GQ, is the author of six books, including The Men Who Stare at Goats. His latest is Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries. "The older you get, you realize that no uncomfortable fact... | 10/9/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 62: Malcolm Gladwell | Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His latest book is David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. "The categories are in motion. You turn into a Goliath, then you topple because of your bigness.... | 10/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 61: Cord Jefferson | Cord Jefferson is the West Coast Editor at Gawker. "I consider myself to be a sincere human being. And I think that the way the internet carries itself, the way the internet has dialogues, is often insincere. That concerns me. I don't ever want to... | 9/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 60: Hamilton Morris | Hamilton Morris is the science editor for Vice and a contributor to Harper's. "It's a shame that there isn't more of an interdisciplinary approach to a lot of scientific investigations, because often the result is that misinformation is produced.... | 9/18/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 59: Nancy Jo Sales | Nancy Jo Sales writes for Vanity Fair and is the author of The Bling Ring. "I'm a mom now, so my life's a little different. I can't do certain things that I used to do, and I won't, because they're dangerous or ridiculous or keep me out till five... | 9/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 58: Sarah Stillman | Sarah Stillman is a staff writer for The New Yorker. "People don't really care about issues so much as they care about the stories and the characters that bring those issues to life. ... A story needs an engine or something to propel you forward... | 9/4/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 57: Eli Saslow | Eli Saslow is a staff writer at the Washington Post and a contributor at ESPN the Magazine. It's not really my place to complain about it being hard for me to write. I wrote the story ("After Newtown Shooting, Mourning Parents Enter Into the Lonely... | 8/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 56: Joshuah Bearman | Joshuah Bearman is the co-founder of Epic Magazine and a freelance writer. His latest story is "Coronado High." "People who know me well will realize that parts of this story are actually about me. … It's about loss of innocence and... | 8/21/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 55: Amy Harmon | Amy Harmon, a Pulitzer Prize winner, covers science and society for the New York Times. "I'm not looking to expose science as problematic and I'm not looking to celebrate it. But it can be double edged. Genetic knowledge can certainly be double... | 8/14/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 54: Sean Flynn | Sean Flynn is a GQ correspondent and National Magazine Award winner. "I find it satisfying to be able to give a voice to people that sort of get lost…You know, when these big horrible things happen, and the spotlight is very briefly on them,... | 8/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 53: Janet Reitman | For the first time, Janet Reitman discusses her Rolling Stone cover story on accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. "My editors, myself, a lot of people who work for the magazine — we lived through an act of terrorism. We... | 8/2/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 52: Kelley Benham | Kelley Benham is a writer and editor at the Tampa Bay Times. "People connect with this story in a really visceral kind of way, usually because of some experience they've had or someone close to them has had. I've had 90-year-old women crying into... | 7/31/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 51: Robert Kolker | Robert Kolker is the author of Lost Girls and a contributing editor at New York. "For better or for worse, my heart's not in the mystery. I want [the killer] to be caught—he's obviously a predator and he's unstable. But they all are. They're... | 7/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 50: Edith Zimmerman | Edith Zimmerman is the founding editor of The Hairpin and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. "I never wrote anything myself or ran anything from other people that was needlessly negative. It wasn't some false grin plastered all... | 7/17/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 49: Brendan I. Koerner | Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of The Skies Belong to Us. "It was this big review in The New York Times and I was terrified that it was going to say something awful about the book or about me as a writer. And my... | 7/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 48: Evan Ratliff | Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, discusses "The Oilman's Daughter," his new story in The Atavist. "This woman was given the opportunity to take on a new identity. And it was a mistake. She never should've done it. If... | 6/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 47: Steve Kandell | Steve Kandell is the longfom editor at BuzzFeed. "What would be the sort of longer, narrative nonfiction, journalistic equivalent of something that would have the same effect on you as a bunch of cat GIFs? And not because it's cute, but it's the... | 6/26/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 46: Nicholas Schmidle | Nicholas Schmidle is a staff writer at The New Yorker. "I was in a taxi, leaving Karachi to go attend this festival, and we started getting these very disturbing phone calls from newspaper reporters that didn't exist, all of them asking me to meet... | 6/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 45: Chris Heath | Chris Heath, winner of the 2013 National Magazine Award for Reporting, is a staff writer at GQ. "I present myself as someone who is going to be rigorous and honest. And if you can engage in the way I'm asking you to engage, then I hope you will... | 6/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 44: Jonathan Abrams | Abrams covers the NBA for Grantland. "Players know that with the stories I do I'm not trying to burn anybody. I'm trying to tell a story for what it's worth and be honest to that person… That's one of my main goals, that you know why this... | 6/5/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 43: Margalit Fox | Margalit Fox is a senior obituary writer for The New York Times and the author of The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. "You do get emotionally involved with people, even though as a journalist you're not supposed to. But... | 5/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 42: Mat Honan | Mat Honan is a senior writer at Wired. "[The tech] industry — especially as it relates to a lot the silly apps and the silly websites and the silly s**t that we put up with — is ridiculous. It's just such a hype fest, people living... | 5/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 41: Jonathan Shainin | Jonathan Shainin, senior editor at The Caravan. "Working in an environment that's foreign, where you have to kind of think through a lot of things from the ground up...I find it to be really stimulating to have to interrogate the assumptions... | 5/15/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 40: Vanessa Grigoriadis | Vanessa Grigoriadis, contributing editor at New York and Vanity Fair. On the art of the celebrity interview: "People are smart. Particularly these people. They're sitting there thinking, "When is she going to drop that question?" They know... | 5/8/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 39: Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Natasha Vargas-Cooper, writer. Show notes: @natashavc natashavc.com Vargas-Cooper on Longform [2:30] "Jesse James Hollywood: On Trial" (The Awl • May-July 2009) [11:00] Mad Men Unbuttoned (2010) [18:30] "The Day-Care Threat" (Brad... | 5/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 38: Ted Conover | Ted Conover, author of five books and the recent Harper's article "The Way of All Flesh." Show notes: tedconover.com Interview Transcript Personal Archive [1:00] "The Way of All Flesh" (Harper's • April 2013) [3:30] "Power Steer"... | 4/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 37: Ann Friedman | Ann Friedman, writer, editor and co-founder of Tomorrow. Show notes: @annfriedman annfriedman.com Personal Archive [5:45] Pie Charts Archive (The Hairpin) [7:15] #realtalk Column (CJR) [15:00] "The Ann Friedman Weekly" [22:00] "Minimum... | 4/16/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 36: Patrick Symmes | Patrick Symmes, foreign correspondent and contributor to Outside and Harper's. Show notes: @patricksymmes patricksymmes.com Symmes's Outside archive Symmes's Harper's archive [2:30] Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the... | 4/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 35: Jay Caspian Kang | Jay Caspian Kang, writer and editor at Grantland. Show notes: @jaycaspiankang [2:00] "Online Poker's Big Winner" (New York Times Magazine • 2011) [4:30] The Dead Do Not Improve (2012) [8:00] "The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is... | 4/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 34: Molly Young | Molly Young, freelance writer for GQ and New York. Show notes: @rolfpotts rolfpotts.com [2:00] Murder of football player in Kansas shakes town (Sports Illustrated • Feb 2013) [15:00] Salon travel column (1999-2000) [16:30]... | 3/27/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 33: Rolf Potts | Rolf Potts, travel writer. Show notes: @rolfpotts rolfpotts.com [2:00] Murder of football player in Kansas shakes town (Sports Illustrated • Feb 2013) [15:00] Salon travel column (1999-2000) [16:30] "Storming the Beach" (Salon •... | 3/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 32: Jake Silverstein | Jake Silverstein, editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly. Show notes: @jakesilverstein Silverstein's Texas Monthly archive [5:00] Welcome to the New National Homepage of Texas (Texas Monthly • Jan 2013) [14:00] "The Innocent Man, Part 1"... | 3/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 31: Emily Nussbaum | Emily Nussbaum, television critic at The New Yorker. Show notes: @emilynussbaum emilynussbaum.com Nussbaum's New Yorker archive Nussbaum's New York archive [1:30] Tina Fey at the Paley Center for Media [5:45] "Shark Week: House of Cards,... | 3/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 30: Keith Gessen | Keith Gessen, founding editor of n+1 and contributor to The New Yorker. Show notes: Gessen's Personal Archive Gessen's n+1 archive Gessen's New Yorker archive [5:15] Money (n+1 • Mar 2006) [6:15] Ugly Duckling Presse [13:15] "Stuck"... | 2/27/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 29: Matthew Power | Matthew Power, freelance writer and contributing editor at Harper's. Show notes: @matthew_power matthewpower.net Power's Harper's archive Power's complete archive [2:00] "Excuse Us While We Kiss the Sky" (GQ • March 2013) [10:30]... | 2/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 28: Joel Lovell | Joel Lovell, deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine. Show notes: @lovelljoel Lovell's New York Times archive Lovell's GQ archive Lovell's This American Life archive [2:00] "George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This... | 2/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 27: Joshua Topolsky | Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief of The Verge. Show notes: @joshuatopolsky joshuatopolsky.com The Verge The Verge on Longform [3:45] "Spacewar" (Stewart Brand • Rolling Stone • 1972) [6:45] The Face magazine [8:00]... | 2/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 26: Jennifer Gonnerman | Jennifer Gonnerman, contributing editor at New York and contributing writer for Mother Jones. Show notes: JenniferGonnerman.com Gonnerman on Longform [5:00] Wayne Barrett's Village Voice Archive [10:30] "The House Where They Live: Inside the... | 1/30/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 25: Susan Orlean | Susan Orlean, staff writer at The New Yorker. Show notes: @susanorlean Orlean on Longform Interview Transcript The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People (Amazon) "Orchid Fever" (New Yorker • 1995) "Meet... | 1/23/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 24: Stephen Rodrick | A special episode with Stephen Rodrick, contritbuting writer at the New York Times Magazine and contributing editor at Men's Journal, to discuss his recent story "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie." Show... | 1/18/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 23: Starlee Kine | Starlee Kine, contributor to This American Life and the New York Times Magazine. Show notes: @StarleeKine Kine's archive on This American Life "Dr. Phil" (This American Life • August 2007) "Where's Walter?" (This American Life •... | 1/16/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 22: Charles Duhigg | Charles Duhigg, New York Times reporter and author of The Power of Habit. Show notes: @cduhigg charlesduhigg.com "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" (Random House • Feb 2012) The iEconomy Series "How the... | 1/9/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 21: Eli Sanders | Eli Sanders, associate editor at The Stranger and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Show notes: @elijsanders elisanders.com "The Bravest Woman in Seattle" (The Stranger • June 2011) "The Great West Coast Newspaper... | 12/18/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 20: Patrick Radden Keefe | Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at The New Yorker. Show notes: @praddenkeefe patrickraddenkeefe.com Keefe on Longform Patrick Radden Keefe's books, Chatter and The Snakehead "Cocaine Incorporated" (New York Times Magazine • June... | 12/12/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 19: Choire Sicha | Choire Sicha, co-founder of The Awl, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes: @choire choiresicha.com The Awl on Longform The Awl Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. 2009 A.D.) in a Large City (Amazon pre-order) | 12/5/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 18: Mike Sager | Mike Sager, writer-at-large for Esquire and founder of The Sager Group, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @therealsager Sager on Longform thesagergroup.net Sager's latest collection: The Someone You're Not The Sager... | 11/28/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 17: Joshua Davis | Joshua Davis, contributing editor at Wired and author of the new ebook John McAfee's Last Stand, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes: joshuadavis.net Davis on Longform @joshuadavisnow: On Twitter, Davis continues to report the McAfee story... | 11/20/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 16: Pamela Colloff | Pamela Colloff, executive editor and staff writer at Texas Monthly, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @pamelacolloff Colloff on Longform "The Innocent Man" (Texas Monthly • Nov-Dec 2012) "Innocence Lost" (Texas Monthly •... | 11/14/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 15: Jonah Weiner | Jonah Weiner, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, pop critic at Slate, and contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes and links: @jonahweiner jonahweiner.com Weiner on... | 11/7/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 14: David Samuels | David Samuels, contributing editor at Harper's and frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic, interviewed by Evan Ratliff. Show notes: Samuels on Longform Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Anthology) "Wild... | 10/31/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 13: Adrian Chen | Adrian Chen, staff writer at Gawker and editor at The New Inquiry, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @adrianchen "Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, the Biggest Troll on the Web" (Gawker • Oct 2012) "The Long, Fake Life of J.S.... | 10/24/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12: Mina Kimes | Mina Kimes, writer at Fortune, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes: @minakimes Kimes on Longform "Bad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story" (Fortune • Sep 2012) "America's Hottest Export: Weapons" (Fortune • Feb 2011) "Why... | 10/17/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11: Joshuah Bearman | Joshuah Bearman discusses "The Great Escape," his article about a CIA operation in Iran that became the basis for the new film Argo. Show notes: @mysecondempire Jones on Longform "The Honor System" (Esquire • Sep 2012) "Animals"... | 10/12/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10: Chris Jones (Live in Romania) | Before a live audience in Bucharest hosted by the Romanian magazine Decât o Revistă, Evan Ratliff interviews Chris Jones. Show notes: @mysecondempire Jones on Longform "The Honor System" (Esquire • Sep 2012) "Animals" (Esquire... | 10/10/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 9: Jeanne Marie Laskas | Jeanne Marie Laskas, author of the new book Hidden America and correspondent for GQ, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @jmlaskas jeannemarielaskas.com Laskas on Longform Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary... | 10/3/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8: Gideon Lewis-Kraus | Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes: GideonLK.com Lewis-Kraus on Longform A Sense of Direction on Amazon "In Search of the Living, Purring, Singing Heart of the Online... | 9/26/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 7: Ta-Nehisi Coates | Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor at The Atlantic and author of The Beatiful Struggle, interviewed by Evan Ratliff. Show notes: Coates on Longform Coates's blog for The Atlantic "Fear of a Black President" (The Atlantic • Aug 2012) "'This... | 9/19/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 6: Mac McClelland | Max Linsky talks with Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones. Show notes: @MacMcClelland McClelland on Longform "For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question" (Mother Jones • Mar 2010) "I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave" (Mother... | 9/11/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 5: Paul Ford | Aaron Lammer talks with writer and programmer Paul Ford. Show notes: @ftrain ftrain.com Ford on Longform "The Web Is a Customer Service Medium" (Ftrain.com • Jan 2011) "The Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (The Morning News • July... | 9/5/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 4: Jon Mooallem | Evan Ratliff talks with Jon Mooallem, contributor at the New York Times Magazine and author of an upcoming book about people and wild animals. Show notes: @jmooallem jonmooallem.com Mooallem on Longform "Twelve Easy Pieces" (New York Times... | 8/28/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 3: David Grann | David Grann, staff writer at The New Yorker, talks with Max Linsky. Show notes: @davidgrann davidgrann.com Grann on Longform "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" (Amazon) "Crimetown, U.S.A." (The New Republic •... | 8/22/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 2: Janet Reitman | A contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of Inside Scientology, Reitman talks to Aaron Lammer about her career and offers advice to young writers. Show notes: @janetreitman janetreitman.com Reitman on Longform "Inside... | 8/15/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1: Matthieu Aikins | This week, Evan Ratliff talks to Matthieu Aikins (Harper's, The Atlantic) on the eve of his move to Kabul. Show notes: @mattaikins maikins.com Matthieu Aikins on Longform "The Master of Spin Boldak" (Harper's • Dec 2009) "The... | 8/6/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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