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Episode 519: Peggy Orenstein
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English - January 25, 2023 18:23 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsNews Arts Books interview journalism longform Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Peggy Orenstein is a journalist and author. Her latest book is Unraveling.
“The challenge is… to not want to say, I need to know what the book is about. I need to have my chapters. I need to know what exactly I'm looking for. Because it's really scary to just go out and report and have trust that there's going to be interesting things and that if you just keep going, you're going to find them. So to not foreclose possibility and options and ideas is the biggest reporting challenge for those sorts of books for me.”
Show notes:
@peggyorenstein
peggyorenstein.com
01:00Girls & Sex (Harper • 2016)
01:00 Boys & Sex (Harper • 2020)
01:00 Cinderella Ate My Daughter (Harper • 2012)
01:00 Waiting for Daisy (Bloomsbury • 2007)
01:00 Unraveling (Harper • 2023)
14:00 Salt: A World History (Mark Kurlansky • Penguin Books • 2003)
18:00 "Mourning My Miscarriage" (New York Times Magazine • Apr 2002)
21:00 Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap (Anchor • 1995)
25:00 "Champion of the Deep" (New York Times Magazine • Jun 1991)
37:00 Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott • Anchor • 1995)
47:00 Aftersun (A24 • 2022)
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Peggy Orenstein is a journalist and author. Her latest book is Unraveling.
“The challenge is… to not want to say, I need to know what the book is about. I need to have my chapters. I need to know what exactly I'm looking for. Because it's really scary to just go out and report and have trust that there's going to be interesting things and that if you just keep going, you're going to find them. So to not foreclose possibility and options and ideas is the biggest reporting challenge for those sorts of books for me.”
Show notes:
@peggyorenstein
peggyorenstein.com
01:00Girls & Sex (Harper • 2016)
01:00 Boys & Sex (Harper • 2020)
01:00 Cinderella Ate My Daughter (Harper • 2012)
01:00 Waiting for Daisy (Bloomsbury • 2007)
01:00 Unraveling (Harper • 2023)
14:00 Salt: A World History (Mark Kurlansky • Penguin Books • 2003)
18:00 "Mourning My Miscarriage" (New York Times Magazine • Apr 2002)
21:00 Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap (Anchor • 1995)
25:00 "Champion of the Deep" (New York Times Magazine • Jun 1991)
37:00 Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott • Anchor • 1995)
47:00 Aftersun (A24 • 2022)
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