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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 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... | 3/5/14 | 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... | 2/26/14 | 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... | 2/17/14 | 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... | 2/12/14 | 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 with... | 2/5/14 | 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 episode. | 1/29/14 | 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... | 1/22/14 | 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... | 1/15/14 | 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.... | 1/8/14 | 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... | 12/19/13 | 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 sponsoring... | 12/11/13 | 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 looking... | 12/4/13 | 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... | 11/27/13 | 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... | 11/20/13 | 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 because... | 11/13/13 | 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... | 11/6/13 | 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... | 10/30/13 | 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 hard.... | 10/23/13 | 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... | 10/17/13 | 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... | 10/9/13 | 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. You... | 10/1/13 | 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... | 9/25/13 | 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.... | 9/18/13 | 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 in... | 9/11/13 | 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 and... | 9/4/13 | 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... | 8/28/13 | 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... | 8/21/13 | 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... | 8/14/13 | 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,... | 8/7/13 | 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... | 8/2/13 | 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 my... | 7/31/13 | 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 all... | 7/24/13 | 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 over... | 7/17/13 | 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... | 7/10/13 | 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... | 6/28/13 | 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 kind... | 6/26/13 | 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... | 6/19/13 | 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... | 6/12/13 | 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... | 6/5/13 | 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 as... | 5/29/13 | 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... | 5/22/13 | 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 that you... | 5/15/13 | 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... | 5/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 39: Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Natasha Vargas-Cooper, writer. | 5/1/13 | 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." | 4/24/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 37: Ann Friedman | Ann Friedman, writer, editor and co-founder of Tomorrow. | 4/16/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 36: Patrick Symmes | Patrick Symmes, foreign correspondent and contributor to Outside and Harper's. | 4/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 35: Jay Caspian Kang | Jay Caspian Kang, writer and editor at Grantland. | 4/3/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 34: Molly Young | Molly Young, freelance writer for GQ and New York. | 3/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 33: Rolf Potts | Rolf Potts, travel writer. | 3/20/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 32: Jake Silverstein | Jake Silverstein, editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly. | 3/13/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 31: Emily Nussbaum | Emily Nussbaum, television critic at The New Yorker. | 3/6/13 | 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. | 2/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 29: Matthew Power | Matthew Power, freelance writer and contributing editor at Harper's. | 2/20/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 28: Joel Lovell | Joel Lovell, deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine. | 2/13/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 27: Joshua Topolsky | Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief of The Verge. | 2/6/13 | 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. | 1/30/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 25: Susan Orlean | Susan Orlean, staff writer at The New Yorker. | 1/23/13 | 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." | 1/18/13 | 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. | 1/16/13 | 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. | 1/9/13 | 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. | 12/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 20: Patrick Radden Keefe | Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at The New Yorker. | 12/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 19: Choire Sicha | Choire Sicha, co-founder of The Awl, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. | 12/5/12 | 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. | 11/28/12 | 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. | 11/20/12 | 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. | 11/14/12 | 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. | 11/7/12 | 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. | 10/31/12 | 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. | 10/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12: Mina Kimes | Mina Kimes, writer at Fortune, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. | 10/17/12 | 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. | 10/12/12 | 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. | 10/10/12 | 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. | 10/3/12 | 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. | 9/26/12 | 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. | 9/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 6: Mac McClelland | Max Linsky talks with Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones. | 9/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 5: Paul Ford | Aaron Lammer talks with writer and programmer Paul Ford. | 9/5/12 | 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. | 8/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 3: David Grann | David Grann, staff writer at The New Yorker, talks with Max Linsky. | 8/22/12 | 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. | 8/15/12 | 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. | 8/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Good stuff
Really solid podcast about journalism and current affairs. The interviewer asks really interesting, pertinent questions and there have been some fascinating conversations. The sound quality is a bit off, but it doesn't make it impossible to listen to and they should have it fixed soon according to the most recent episode
I'm for it!
This podcast is consistently worthwhile, funny and intelligent. The writers they round up for interviews represent an impressive range of storytellers and the interviews themselves almost without fail produce both moment to moment interesting content and pretty insightful observations about the craft of writing. I'm glad this exists in the world.
Exciting
I'm really excited for this podcast. The interviews are in-depth and original, and there is a good combination of known and relatively unknown writers. The other reviews are exaggerating the sound quality - it's really not detrimental to the podcasts, nor should people expect perfection for something that's free.
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