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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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CleanEpisode 290: Michelle Dean | Michelle Dean is a journalist and critic. Her new book is Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion. “There isn’t one answer. I wish there was one answer. The answer is: You just have to wing it. And I’m learning that — I’m... | 4/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 289: Craig Mod | Craig Mod is a writer and photographer. His podcast is On Margins. “You pick up an iPad, you pick up an iPhone—what are you picking up? You’re picking up a chemical-driven casino that just plays on your most base desires for vanity and ego and... | 4/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 288: Tom Bissell | Tom Bissell is a journalist, critic, video game writer, and author of The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made. His latest book is Magic Hours. “I kind of have come around to maybe not as monkish or fanatical... | 4/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 287: Will Mackin | Will Mackin is a U.S. Navy veteran who served with a SEAL team in Iraq and Afghanistan. His debut book is Bring Out the Dog. “I wanted to write nonfiction and I started writing nonfiction. And the reason I did that was — first of all, I felt... | 3/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 286: Nitasha Tiku | Nitasha Tiku is a senior writer at Wired. “I’ve always been an incredibly nosy person—not nosy, curious. Curious about the world. It just gives you a license to ask any question, and hopefully if you have a willing editor, the freedom to see... | 3/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 285: Chana Joffe-Walt | Chana Joffe-Walt is a producer and reporter at This American Life. Her latest story is "Five Women." “I felt like there was more to learn from these stories, more than just which men are bad and shouldn’t have the Netflix special that they wanted... | 3/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 284: Joe Weisenthal | Joe Weisenthal is the executive editor of news for Bloomberg Digital and the co-host of What’d You Miss? and Odd Lots. "If I don’t say yes to this, then I can never say yes to anything again. Because when else am I going to get a chance in life to.. | 3/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 283: Sean Fennessey | Sean Fennessy is the editor-in-chief of The Ringer and a former Grantland editor. He hosts The Big Picture. "What I try to do is listen to people as much as I can. And try to be compassionate. I think it’s really hard to be on the internet. This is... | 2/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 282: Jenna Wortham | Jenna Wortham is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and a co-host of Still Processing. “I feel like I’m still writing to let my 10-year-old self know it’s okay to be you. It’s okay to be a chubby androgynous weirdo. You know what I... | 2/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 281: Michael Idov | Michael Idov is a screenwriter, journalist, and the former editor-in-chief of GQ Russia. His latest book is Dressed Up for a Riot. "It just goes to show that the best thing you can possibly do as a journalist is to forget you’re a journalist, go... | 2/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 280: Liliana Segura | Liliana Segura writes for The Intercept. “My form of advocacy against the death penalty, frankly, has always been to tell those stories that other people aren’t seeing. And to humanize the people—not just the people facing execution, but... | 2/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 279: Seth Wickersham | Seth Wickersham is a senior writer for ESPN. His latest article is "For Kraft, Brady and Belichick, Is This the Beginning of the End?" “You want to write about something real. I hate stories that are, the tension of the story is, talk radio... | 1/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 278: Nathan Thornburgh | Nathan Thornburgh is the co-founder of Roads & Kingdoms. "You have to remain committed to the kind of irrational act of producing journalism for an uncaring world. You have to want to do that so bad, that you will never not be doing that.... | 1/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 277: Kiera Feldman | Kiera Feldman is an investigative reporter. Her latest article is "Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection." "I used to have a lot of anxiety that I don’t seem like an investigative reporter. Utlimately, my reporting... | 1/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 276: Azmat Khan | Azmat Khan is an investigative reporter and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. "For me, what matters most is systematic investigation, and I think that’s different than an investigative story that might explore one case. It’s... | 1/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 210: Ben Taub, New Yorker Staff Writer | Ben Taub is a staff writer at The New Yorker. “I don’t think it’s my place to be cynical because I’ve observed some of the horrors of the Syrian War through these various materials, but it’s Syrians that are living them. It’s Syrians that... | 1/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 254: Maggie Haberman, New York Times White House Correspondent | Maggie Haberman covers the White House for The New York Times. “If I start thinking about it, then I’m not going to be able to just keep doing my job. I'm being as honest as I can — I try not to think about it. If you’re flying a plane and you.. | 12/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 275: Tina Brown | Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, is the founder of Women in the World. Her latest book is The Vanity Fair Diaries. “I believed that my bravado had no limit, if you know what I mean. I see limits now, let’s put it... | 12/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 274: Mara Shalhoup | Mara Shalhoup was until recently editor-in-chief of LA Weekly. She is the author of BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family. “I’m so fearful about what it will look like for cities without an outlet for [alt-weekly] stories... | 12/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 273: Zoe Chace | Zoe Chace is a reporter and producer at This American Life. “Radio is a movie in your head. It’s a very visual thing. It’s a transporting thing—when it’s done well. And it’s louder than your thoughts. It is both of those things. It would... | 12/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 272: Jason Leopold | Jason Leopold is a senior investigative reporter for Buzzfeed and the author of News Junkie. “I made the worst mistake that cost me my credibility and I could have done two things. I could have walked away, and said I’m done with this, no one... | 11/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 271: Kara Swisher | Kara Swisher is the executive editor and co-founder of Recode. “I do the work. I just work harder than other people. I really do. I work harder, I interview more people, I call more people, I text more people. And so I find out, and they can not... | 11/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 270: Tyler Cowen | Tyler Cowen is an economist, the co-founder of Marginal Revolution, and the host of Conversations with Tyler. His latest book is The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream. “I think of my central contribution, or what... | 11/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 269: Jodi Kantor | Jodi Kantor is a New York Times investigative reporter and the author of The Obamas. “Being a reporter really robs you of self-consciousness and shyness. You realize that it’s this great gift of being able to ask crazy questions, either really... | 11/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 268: Jim Nelson | Jim Nelson is the editor-in-chief of GQ. “One of the things that was initially a challenge was we would all think of ‘the print side’ and ‘the digital side.’ Now what we all think about is, ‘Okay, stop saying GQ.com and GQ the print... | 11/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 267: Sarah Ellison | Sarah Ellison is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of War at the Wall Street Journal. “There’s no lack of stories. ... There’s always an element where you’re going to be parachuting into something that someone has likely... | 10/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 266: Patricia Bosworth | Patricia Bosworth is a journalist and biographer. Her latest book is The Men in My Life. “The [acting] rejections are hellish and ghastly. At least they were to me. And I got tired of being rejected so much and also tired of not being able to... | 10/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 265: Michael Barbaro | Michael Barbaro is the host of The Daily. “I don’t think The Daily should ever be my therapy session. That’s not what it’s meant to be, but I’m a human being. I arrive at work on a random Tuesday, and I do an interview with a guy like that,... | 10/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 264: Vanessa Grigoriadis | Vanessa Grigoriadis writes for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Magazine. Her new book is Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus. “I’m a controversial writer. I’ve never shied away from controversy. I’ve... | 10/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 263: Jelani Cobb | Dr. Jelani Cobb is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of three books, including The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. He teaches journalism at Columbia University. “Ralph Wiley — the sports writer, late Ralph Wiley.. | 9/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 262: PJ Vogt of Reply All (Part 2) | PJ Vogt is the co-host of Reply All. “Every radio story is broken. Everything is missing some piece it’s supposed to have. Everything has some weird interview that didn’t go the way you thought it was going to go, or you thought you had an... | 9/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 262: Alex Goldman of Reply All (Part 1) | Alex Goldman is the co-host of Reply All. “I am not the authority on the internet. I’m not an expert on particularly anything, except stuff that I like.” Thanks to MailChimp, Squarespace, and Blinkist for sponsoring this week's episode. ... | 9/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 261: Hillary Clinton | Hillary Clinton is the former Democratic nominee for president. Her new book is What Happened. “I hugged a lot of people after [my concession speech] was over. A lot of people cried … and then it was done. So Bill and I went out and got in the... | 9/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 260: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah | Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist. Her latest piece is “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof.” “I remember feeling like ‘you’re playing chess with evil, and you gotta win.’ Because this is the most terrible thing I’d... | 9/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 259: Ellen Barry | Ellen Barry is the former New York Times bureau chief for South Asia. “Every time you leave a beat—and this is something that I think as foreign correspondents we rarely communicate to our readers—you’re walking away from a story which has... | 8/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 258: Kate Fagan | Kate Fagan is a columnist and feature writer for ESPN. Her latest book is What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen. “When I was professionally closeted, I was kind of bitter. I didn’t have a ton of... | 8/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 257: Jay Caspian Kang | Jay Caspian Kang is a writer at large at The New York Times Magazine and a correspondent for Vice News Tonight. “I make a pretty provocative argument about how Asian American identity doesn’t really exist—how it’s basically just an academic... | 8/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 256: David Gessner | David Gessner is the author of ten books. His latest is Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth. “The ambition got in my way at first. Because I wanted my stuff to be great, and it froze me up. But later on it was really helpful. I’m.. | 8/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 255: Matthew Klam | Matthew Klam is a journalist and fiction writer. His new novel is Who Is Rich?. “The New Yorker had hyped me with this “20 Under 40” thing…and when the tenth anniversary of that list [came], somebody wrote an article about it. And they found... | 8/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 254: Maggie Haberman | Maggie Haberman covers the White House for The New York Times. “If I start thinking about it, then I’m not going to be able to just keep doing my job. I'm being as honest as I can — I try not to think about it. If you’re flying a plane and you.. | 7/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 253: Steven Levy | Steven Levy writes for Wired, where he is the editor of Backchannel. “It’s about people. Travis Kalanick’s foibles aren’t because he’s a technology executive. It’s because he’s Travis Kalanick. That’s the way he is. There is a certain... | 7/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 252: Mark Bowden | Mark Bowden is a journalist and the author of 13 books, including Black Hawk Down and his latest, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam. “My goal is never to condemn someone that I’m writing about. It’s always to understand... | 7/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 239: S-Town's Brian Reed | Brian Reed, a senior producer at This American Life, is the host of S-Town. “It’s a story about the remarkableness of what could be called an unremarkable life.” Thanks to MailChimp, Babbel, and Squarespace for sponsoring this episode. ... | 7/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 251: Ginger Thompson | Ginger Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter at ProPublica. Her most recent article is "How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico." “How many times have I written the phrase ‘a town that was controlled by drug traffickers?' I had.. | 6/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 250: Patricia Lockwood | Patricia Lockwood is a poet and essayist. Her new book is Priestdaddy: A Memoir. “[Prose writing is] strange to me as a poet. I’m like, ‘Well I guess I’ll tell you just what happened then.’ But the humor has to be there as well. Because in... | 6/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 249: John Grisham | John Grisham is the author of 38 books, including his latest novel, Camino Island. “A Time to Kill didn’t sell. It just didn’t sell. There was never any talk of going back for a second printing. No talk of paper back. No foreign deal. It was a... | 6/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 248: Erin Lee Carr | Erin Lee Carr is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Her new film is Mommy Dead and Dearest. “I feel like I’ve always had the story down—that’s not been really difficult for me. So the difficult thing, I think, for me, has always been... | 6/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 247: Ariel Levy | Ariel Levy, a New Yorker staff writer, is the author of The Rules Do Not Apply. “I don’t believe in ‘would this’ and ‘would that.’ There’s no ‘everything happens for a reason.’ Everything happens, and then you just f*****g... | 5/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 246: Jeffrey Gettleman | Jeffrey Gettleman is the East Africa Bureau Chief for the New York Times and the author of Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival. “I’m not an adventure-seeking adrenaline junky. I like to explore new worlds, but I’m not one of... | 5/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 245: Rafe Bartholomew | Rafe Bartholomew is the former features editor at Grantland and the author of Two and Two: McSorley’s, My Dad, and Me. “I never saw it as something negative because [my dad] comes out, to me, at the end, extremely heroic. … He becomes this dad... | 5/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 244: Nick Bilton | Nick Bilton is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and the author of American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road. “I’ve been covering tech for a long, long time. And the thing I’ve always tried to do is... | 5/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 243: Samin Nosrat | Samin Nosrat is a food writer, educator, and chef. Her new book is Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. “I kind of couldn’t exist as just a cook or a writer. I kind of need to be both. Because they fulfill these two... | 5/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 242: Sarah Menkedick | Sarah Menkedick is a freelance writer and the founder of Vela. Her upcoming book is Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm. “I’d been rejected a ton of times—I had that 400-page thing that never became a book. So there were... | 4/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 241: David Grann | David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new book is Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. “The more stories I reported over time, the more I just realized there are parts of the story I can’t always... | 4/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 240: Alex Kotlowitz | Alex Kotlowitz is a journalist whose work has appeared in print, radio, and film. He’s the author of three books, including There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. “The truth of the matter is, given what... | 4/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 239: Brian Reed | Brian Reed, a senior producer at This American Life, is the host of S-Town. “It’s a story about the remarkableness of what could be called an unremarkable life.” Thanks to MailChimp, Casper, and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode. ... | 4/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 238: Hrishikesh Hirway | Hrishikesh Hirway is the host of Song Exploder. “I love the idea that somebody would listen to an episode [of Song Exploder] and then the feeling that they would have afterwards is, ‘Now I want to make something.’ That’s the best possible... | 3/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 237: Sheelah Kolhatkar | Sheelah Kolhatkar is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street. “Suddenly the financial crisis happened and all this stuff that had... | 3/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 236: Al Baker | Al Baker is a crime reporter at The New York Times, where he writes the series “Murder in the 4-0.” “When there’s a murder in a public housing high rise, there’s a body on the floor. Jessica White in a playground, on a hot summer night. Her... | 3/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 235: Caity Weaver | Caity Weaver is a staff writer at GQ. “I always try to remember: you don’t have to tell people what you’re not good at. You don’t have to remind them of what you’re not doing well or what your weak points are. Don’t apologize for things... | 3/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 234: Matthew Cole | Matthew Cole is an investigative reporter at The Intercept, where he recently published “The Crimes of Seal Team 6.” “I’ve gotten very polite and very impolite versions of ‘go f**k yourself.’ I used to have a little sheet of paper where I... | 3/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 233: Alexis C. Madrigal | Alexis C. Madrigal is an editor-at-large for Fusion, where he’s producing the upcoming podcast, Containers. “Sometimes you think like, 'Man the media business is the worst. This is so hard.' When you spend time with all these other business... | 2/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 232: Ana Marie Cox | Ana Marie Cox is the senior political correspondent for MTV News, conducts the “Talk” interviews in The New York Times Magazine, and founded Wonkette. “When people are sending me hate mail or threats, one defense I have against that is ‘you... | 2/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 231: Brooke Gladstone | Brooke Gladstone is the host of On the Media. “I’ve learned so much about how easy it is to redefine reality in this era of billions of filter bubbles. How easy it is to cast doubt on what is undeniably true. And I think that that’s what... | 2/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 230: Ezra Edelman | Ezra Edelman is the director of O.J.: Made in America. “When I say what I learned is that America is even more f****d up than I had previously thought, it’s that—the superficiality of it. How we are willingly seduced by these shiny people and... | 2/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 229: Alexey Kovalev | Alexey Kovalev is a Moscow-based journalist and the author of the recent article, “A Message to My Doomed Colleagues in the American Media." “It’s really disheartening to see how little it takes for people to start believing in something that... | 1/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 228: Jeff Sharlet | Jeff Sharlet writes about politics and religion for Esquire, GQ, New York Times Magazine, and more. “I like the stories with difficult people. I like the stories about people who are dismissed as monsters. I hate the term ‘monster.’... | 1/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 227: Jace Clayton | Jace Clayton is a music writer and musician who records as DJ /rupture. His book is Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture. “What does it mean to be young and have some sound inside your head? Or to be in a scene that you want to... | 1/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 226: Terry Gross | Terry Gross is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air. “Part of my philosophy of life is that you have to live with a certain amount of delusion. And part of the delusion I live with is that maybe, from experience, I’m getting a little... | 1/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 225: Ta-Nehisi Coates | Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of Between the World and Me and a national correspondent for The Atlantic. His latest cover story is “My President Was Black." “[People] have come to see me as somebody with answers, but I don’t actually have... | 12/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 224: Hua Hsu | Hua Hsu writes for The New Yorker and is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. “I remember, as a kid, my dad telling me that when he moved to the United States he subscribed to The New Yorker, and then he... | 12/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 223: Carl Zimmer | Carl Zimmer, a columnist for the New York Times and a national correspondent at STAT, writes about science. “[Criticism] doesn’t change the truth. You know? Global warming is still happening. Vaccines still work. Evolution is still true. No matter.. | 12/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 222: Wesley Lowery | Wesley Lowery is a national reporter at the Washington Post, where he worked on the Pulitzer-winning project, "Fatal Force." His new book is They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement. “I... | 11/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 221: Adam Moss | Adam Moss is the editor of New York Magazine. “I think [change] is good for journalism—it’s what journalism is about. You can’t write about something static. News is about what is new. So there’s plenty of new right now. I’m not saying... | 11/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 220: Kyle Chayka | Kyle Chayka is a freelance writer who writes for Businessweek, The Verge, Racked, The New Yorker, and more. “I love that idea of form and content being the same. I want to write about lifestyle in a lifestyle magazine. I want to critique technology... | 11/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 219: Susan Casey | Susan Casey is the former editor of O and the author of three New York Times bestselling books. Her latest is Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins. “The funny thing is people often say, ‘You must be... | 11/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 218: Wesley Morris | Wesley Morris is a critic at large for The New York Times, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and the co-host of Still Processing. His latest article is "Last Taboo: Why Pop Culture Just Can’t Deal With Black Male Sexuality." “You... | 11/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 217: Doreen St. Félix | Doreen St. Félix is a writer at MTV News. “It feels like there are images of black utopias that are arising. And you can’t—even if you’re not as superstitious as me—you can’t possibly think that that doesn’t have to do with the decline,.. | 10/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 216: Emily Witt | Emily Witt is a freelance writer and the author of Future Sex. “I think I had always thought that—maybe this is coming from a WASPy, protestant background—if I presented myself as overtly sexual in any way, it would be a huge turnoff. That they... | 10/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 215: Krista Tippett | Krista Tippett is the host of On Being and the author of Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. “Good journalists in newsrooms hold themselves to primitive standards when they’re covering religious ideas and people.... | 10/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 214: Luke Dittrich | Luke Dittrich is a contributing editor at Esquire. His new book is Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets. “As soon as I told [my mom] that I got my first book deal for this story about Patient H.M., her first words were, ‘Oh.. | 10/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 213: A.J. Daulerio | A.J. Daulerio is the former editor-in-chief of Gawker. “The choices they’ve given me are take back everything that you loved about Nick [Denton], Gawker, and your job, and we’ll give you your $1,000 back or your ability to make money. You can... | 9/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 212: Julia Turner | Julia Turner is editor-in-chief of Slate. “That’s what we’ve been focused on: trying to double down on the stuff that feels distinctive and original. Because if you spend all your time on a social platform, and a bunch of media brands are... | 9/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 211: Naomi Zeichner | Naomi Zeichner is editor-in-chief of The Fader. “Right now in rap there’s kind of a huge tired idea that kids are trying to kill their idols, and kids have no respect for history, and kids are making bastardized crazy music, and how dare they? I... | 9/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 210: Ben Taub | Ben Taub is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. “I don’t think it’s my place to be cynical because I’ve observed some of the horrors of the Syrian War through these various materials, but it’s Syrians that are living them. It’s... | 9/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 209: Sarah Schweitzer | Sarah Schweitzer is a former feature writer for the Boston Globe. “I just am drawn, I think, to the notion that we start out as these creatures that just want love and were programmed that way—to try to find it and to make our lives whole. We are,.. | 8/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 208: Rachel Monroe | Rachel Monroe is a freelance writer based in Texas. “I will totally go emotionally deep with people. If I can find a subject who is into that then it will probably be a good story. Whether that person is a victim of a crime, or a committer of a... | 8/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 207: McKay Coppins | McKay Coppins is a senior political writer for Buzzfeed News and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House. “I am part of the problem. Not in the sense that... | 8/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 206: Gabriel Sherman | Gabriel Sherman is the national affairs editor at New York and the author of the New York Times best-seller a... | 8/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpecial 'Love and Ruin' Reissue: Jon Mooallem | Jon Mooallem is the author of "American Hippopotamus," a story included in Love and Ruin, the new Atavist Magazine collection. Buy your copy today. | 8/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 205: Ezra Klein | Ezra Klein the editor-in-chief of Vox. “I think that if any of these big players collapse, when their obits are written, it’ll be because they did too much. I’m not saying I think any of them in particular are doing too much. But I do think,... | 8/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 204: Malcolm Gladwell | Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new podcast is Revisionist History. “The amount of criticism you get is a constant function of the size of your audience. So if you think that, generously speaking, 80% of the people who read.. | 8/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 203: Ellis Jones | Ellis Jones is the editor-in-chief of VICE Magazine. “I’m just not an edgy person. You know what I mean? I think I am a nice person. I think VICE Magazine reflects the qualities that I want to have or think that I have or that my team has. The... | 7/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 202: David Remnick | David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. “I think it’s important — not just for me, but for the readers — that this thing exists at the highest possible level in 2016, in 2017, and on. That there’s a continuity to it. I know,... | 7/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 201: T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong | T. Christian Miller, senior investigative reporter at ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, staff writer at The Marshall Project, co-wrote the Pulitzer-winning article, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape.” “I won’t forget this: when T. and I talked on... | 7/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 200: Jack Hitt | Jack Hitt contributes to Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and This American Life. “I’ve always lived more or less unemployed in these markets, and happily so. I think being unemployed keeps you a little more sharp in terms of looking for... | 7/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 199: Kathryn Schulz | Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer for The New Yorker. "The Really Big One," her article about the rupturing of the Cascadia fault line, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. “I can tell you in absolute sincerity: I didn't realize I was writing a scary story.... | 6/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBonus Episode: Shane Bauer | Shane Bauer, a senior reporter for Mother Jones, spent four months working undercover as a guard in a private prison. “The thing that I grappled with the most afterward was a feeling of shame about who I was as a guard and some of the things that I... | 6/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 198: Frank Rich | Frank Rich, a former culture and political columnist for The New York Times, writes for New York and is the executive producer of Veep. “All audiences bite back. If you have an opinion—forget about whether it’s theater or politics. If... | 6/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBonus Episode: Louisa Thomas and Evan Thomas | Louisa Thomas, a former writer and editor at Grantland, is a New Yorker contributor and the author of Louisa. Her father Evan Thomas, a longtime writer for Newsweek and Time, is the author of several award-winning books, including last year's Being... | 6/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 197: Nikole Hannah-Jones | Nikole Hannah-Jones covers civil rights for The New York Times Magazine. “I don’t think there’s any beat you can cover in America that race is not intertwined with—environment, politics, business, housing, you name it. So, whatever beat you... | 6/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 196: Jon Favreau | Jon Favreau, former chief speechwriter for President Obama, is a columnist at The Ringer and co-host of Keepin’ It 1600. “And then Obama comes over to my desk with the speech, and he has a few edits. And he’s like, ‘I just want to go through... | 6/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 195: Leah Finnegan | Leah Finnegan, a former New York Times and Gawker editor, is the managing news editor at Genius. “After the Condé Nast article, Nick Denton decided Gawker needed to be 20% nicer, and I took a buyout because I was not 20% nicer.” Thanks to... | 6/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 194: Pablo S. Torre | Pablo Torre is a senior writer at ESPN the Magazine and frequently appears on Around the Horn, PTI, and other ESPN shows. “Most of my friends are not sports fans. My parents aren't. Brother and sister — no. So I just want to make things that they... | 5/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 193: Robin Marantz Henig | Robin Marantz Henig, the author of nine books, writes about science and medicine for The New York Times Magazine. “I have my moments of thinking, ‘Well, why is this still so hard? Why do I still have to prove myself after all this time?’ If I... | 5/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 192: Seymour Hersh | Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. “The government had denied everything we said. We just asked them and they said, ‘Oh no, not true, not true.’ That’s just—it’s all pro... | 5/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 191: Kelly McEvers | Kelly McEvers, a former war correspondent, hosts NPR's All Things Considered and the podcast Embedded. “Listeners want you to be real, a real person. Somebody who stumbles and fails sometimes. I think the more human you are, the more people can then.. | 5/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBonus Episode: Evan Ratliff | Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, discusses "The Mastermind,” his new 7-part serialized story in The Atavist Magazine. “On several occasions [sources] didn’t want to go into the details of how they were identified. They were just... | 4/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 190: Susie Cagle | Susie Cagle is a journalist and illustrator. “I don’t really know what it was that made me not quit. I still kind of wonder that. There have been many times over the last couple of years even, as things are taking off in my career, things are... | 4/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 189: Maciej Ceglowski | Maciej Ceglowski is the founder of Pinboard. He writes at Idle Words. “My natural contrarianism makes me want to see if I can do something long-term in an industry where everything either changes until it's unrecognizable or gets sold or... | 4/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 188: Nate Silver | Nate Silver is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and the author of The Signal and the Noise. “I know in a perfectly rational world, if you make an 80/20 prediction, people should know that not only will this prediction not be right all the time,... | 4/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 187: Elizabeth Gilbert | Elizabeth Gilbert has written for Spin, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the author of several books, including Eat, Pray, Love. “I call it the platinum rule. The golden rule is do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but... | 4/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 186: Gabriel Synder | Gabriel Snyder is the editor-in-chief of The New Republic. “I had a new job, I was new to the place, and I came to it with a great deal of respect but didn’t feel like I had any special claim to it. But in that moment I realized that... | 3/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 185: Ben Smith | Ben Smith is the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed. “I do think as a reporter in general, most of what we deal in is ephemera. And I love that. I mean that’s the business, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. In fact,... | 3/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 184: Daniel Alarcón | Daniel Alarcón, a novelist and the co-founder of Radio Ambulante, has written for Harper's, California Sunday, and the New York Times Magazine. “I’m a writer. I’ve written a bunch of books, and I care a lot about my sentences... | 3/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 183: Jia Tolentino | Jia Tolentino is the deputy editor of Jezebel. “Insult itself is an opportunity. I’m glad to be a woman, and I’m glad not to be white. I think it’s made me tougher. I’ve never been able to assume comfort or power.... | 3/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 182: Heather Havrilesky | Heather Havrilesky writes the Ask Polly advice column for New York and is the author of the upcoming How to Be a Person in the World. “I don’t give a s**t if I succeed or fail or what I do next, I just want to do things that are strange... | 3/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 181: Wesley Yang | Wesley Yang writes for New York and other publications. “If a person remains true to some part of their experience, no matter what it is, and they present it in full candor, there’s value to that. People will recognize it. Once I knew... | 2/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 180: Mishka Shubaly | Mishka Shubaly is the author of I Swear I’ll Make It Up to You and several best-selling Kindle Singles. “I remember thinking when I was shipwrecked in the Bahamas, ‘I’m going to f*****g die here. I’m 24 years old,... | 2/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 179: Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton | Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton host Another Round. “I’m just trying to follow my curiosities. You know how kids always ask the best questions because they haven’t lost the will to live? I’m just desperately trying to keep that... | 2/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 178: Michael J. Mooney | Michael J. Mooney is a staff writer at D Magazine and the author of The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle. “There are some elements of crime stories that are so absurd that it’s funny, and so working on the “How Not to Get Away With... | 2/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 177: Alex Perry | Alex Perry, based in England, has covered Africa and Asia for Newsweek and Time. His most recent book is The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free. “I got a call from one of my editors in 2003 or 2004, and he said something like, ‘You realize... | 1/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 176: Grant Wahl | Grant Wahl is senior writer at Sports Illustrated and the author of The Beckham Experiment. “I said to Balotelli, ‘I know you’re into President Obama. There’s a decent chance that he might read this story.’ He kind of... | 1/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 175: Brooke Gladstone | Brooke Gladstone is the co-host of On the Media and the author of The Influencing Machine. “I'm not going to get any richer or more famous than I am right now. This is it, this is fine — it's better than I ever expected. I don't have... | 1/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 174: Venkatesh Rao | Venkatesh Rao is the founder of Ribbonfarm and the author of Breaking Smart. “I would say I was blind and deaf and did not know anything about how the world worked until I was about 25. It took until almost 35 before I actually cut loose from... | 1/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 173: Doug McGray | Doug McGray is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of California Sunday and Pop-Up. “Your life ends up being made up of the things you remember. You forget most of it, but the things that you remember become your life. And if you can make... | 12/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 172: Kliph Nesteroff | Kliph Nesteroff writes for WFMU's Beware of the Blog. His book, The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy, was released in November. “Well, comedy always becomes stale. Whether it’s offensive or not... | 12/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 171: Adrian Chen | Adrian Chen is a freelance journalist who has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Wired. His latest article is "Unfollow," about a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church. “Twitter and social media get such a bad... | 12/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 170: Aleksandar Hemon at the Miami Book Fair | Aleksandar Hemon is a writer from Bosnia whose fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Granta. His books include The Lazarus Project, The Question of Bruno, and The Book of My Lives. “For me and for everyone I know, that's... | 12/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 169: Chip Kidd at the Miami Book Fair | Chip Kidd is a book designer and author. His most recent book is Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts. “The curious thing about doing a book cover is that you're creating a piece of art, but it is in service to a... | 12/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 168: Ta-Nehisi Coates | Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. His latest book, Between the World and Me, just won the National Book Award. “When I first came to New York, I couldn't see any of this. I felt like a complete washout. I was... | 11/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 167: Kurt Andersen | Kurt Andersen is the co-founder of Spy Magazine, the author of several books, and the host of Studio 360. “As a young person, I never thought of myself as a risk-taker. Then I did this risky thing that shouldn't have succeeded, I started this... | 11/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 166: Ed Caesar | Ed Caesar is a freelance writer based in England whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, British GQ, and The Sunday Times Magazine. He is the author of Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon. “That was a really horrific... | 11/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 165: Jazmine Hughes | Jazmine Hughes is an associate editor at The New York Times Magazine. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and The New Republic. “You hope that one day when you’re the editor-in-chief of Blah, Blah, Blah,... | 11/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 164: Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham, the creator and star of HBO's Girls, is the co-founder of Lenny and the author of Not That Kind of Girl. A special episode hosted by Longform Podcast editor Jenna Weiss-Berman. “Writing across mediums can be a really healthy way to... | 10/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 163: Matthew Shaer | Matthew Shaer is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York, GQ, and The Atavist Magazine. “I could not turn off the freelance switch in my head. I could not not be thinking about these different types... | 10/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 162: John Seabrook | John Seabrook is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory. “Whether or not the piece succeeds or fails is not going to depend on whether I’m up to the minute on the latest social media spot to... | 10/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 161: Karina Longworth | Karina Longworth is a film writer and the creator/host of You Must Remember This, a podcast exploring the secret stories of Hollywood. “For me the thing that’s exciting about it is that it’s research, and it’s reportage,... | 10/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 160: Jessica Hopper | Jessica Hopper is editor-in-chief of the Pitchfork Review and the author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic. “I have an agenda. You can’t read my writing and not know that I have a staunch f*****g agenda... | 9/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 159: Ira Glass | Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of This American Life. “You can only have so many questions about feelings, I think. At some point people are just like alright, enough with the feelings.” Thanks to MailChimp, EA SPORTS FIFA... | 9/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 158: Peter Hessler (live) | Peter Hessler is a staff writer for The New Yorker. “It may have helped that I didn’t have a lot of ideas about China. You know, it was sort of a blank slate in my mind. …I wasn’t a reporter when I went to Fuling, but I was... | 9/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 157: Margo Jefferson | Margo Jefferson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, and Harper's. Her latest book is Negroland: A Memoir. “One of the problems with—burdens of—‘race conversations’ in this country is... | 9/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 156: Renata Adler | Renata Adler is a journalist, critic, and novelist. Her latest collection of nonfiction is After the Tall Timber. “Unless you're going to be fairly definite, what's the point of writing?” Thanks to MailChimp, and Squarespace for... | 9/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 155: S.L. Price | S.L. Price is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. “The fact is, if you write about sports and people think they're just reading about sports, they'll read about drug use. They'll read about sex. They'll read about sex change. They'll read... | 8/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 154: William Finnegan | William Finnegan is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. “I suppose in retrospect I was just trying to find out what the world held that nobody could tell me about until I got there. I was a big reader and... | 8/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 153: Tim Ferriss | Tim Ferriss is the author of The Four Hour Workweek and The Four Hour Body. “If you have a fitness magazine, you can’t just write one issue, ‘Here are the rules!’ ... My job, conversely, is to make myself obsolete. The last... | 8/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 152: Carol Loomis | Carol Loomis retired last summer after 60 years at Fortune. She continues to edit Warren Buffett's annual report. “Writing itself makes you realize where there are holes in things. I’m never sure what I think until I see what I write. And... | 8/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBonus Episode: Noreen Malone | Noreen Malone wrote "Cosby: The Women — An Unwanted Sisterhood," this week's cover story in New York. “We interviewed them all separately, and that was what was so striking: they all kept saying the same thing, down to the details of... | 7/31/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 151: Ian Urbina | Ian Urbina, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, just published "The Outlaw Ocean," a four-part series on crime in international waters. “It is a tribe. It has its norms, its language, and its jealousies. I approached it almost as... | 7/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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 close to.. | 6/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanThe 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanThe 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanMatthew 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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 assholes. Because often crazy assholes are really brilliant great writers." Thanks to TinyLetter and Squarespace for... | 12/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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CleanEpisode 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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