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645 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsInterviews with writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters about how they do their work. Hosted by Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff.
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Episode 45: Chris Heath
June 12, 2013 16:54 - 46 minutesChris 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 recognize yourself in a more truthful way in this story than you usually do. And maybe even, with a bit of luck, more than you ever have before. That's what I bring. That's my offer." Thanks to TinyLetter and the Literary Reportage Department at NYU'...
Episode 44: Jonathan Abrams
June 05, 2013 16:12 - 43 minutesAbrams covers the NBA for Grantland. "Players know that with the stories I do I'm not trying to burn anybody. I'm trying to tell a story for what it's worth and be honest to that person… That's one of my main goals, that you know why this person is [a certain] way when they step on the court. You know why Monta Ellis is going to keep shooting the ball. You know why Zach Randolph is such a gritty player. What these guys have gone through growing up, it materializes in their game." Show notes...
Episode 43: Margalit Fox
May 29, 2013 15:32 - 49 minutesMargalit Fox is a senior obituary writer for The New York Times and the author of The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. "You do get emotionally involved with people, even though as a journalist you're not supposed to. But as a human being, how can you not? Particularly people who had difficult, tragic, poignant lives. But there are also people that you just wish you had known. And, of course, the painful irony is that you're only getting to know them by virtue of t...
Episode 42: Mat Honan
May 22, 2013 16:14 - 42 minutesMat 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 shit that we put up with — is ridiculous. It's just such a hype fest, people living off of jargon and nonsense. There are entire conferences devoted to nonsense! ... I like to skewer that stuff, because I don't want to feel responsible for it. I don't want to feel like I'm making someone go out and buy some piece of shit they don't need." Show n...
Episode 41: Jonathan Shainin
May 15, 2013 16:44 - 52 minutesJonathan Shainin, senior editor at The Caravan. "Working in an environment that's foreign, where you have to kind of think through a lot of things from the ground up...I find it to be really stimulating to have to interrogate the assumptions that you have as an editor about what's interesting and what's not interesting, what's a good story and what's a bad story, what's the story that's been done a million times already. When you get out of a place that is your place, you have to kind of ...
Episode 40: Vanessa Grigoriadis
May 08, 2013 16:25 - 49 minutesVanessa 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 what you're doing. So the way I think about it is: let's have an actual, genuine, human, interesting conversation. ... [Journalists] have all sorts of schemes of what they think works for them. My scheme is no scheme." Show notes: @thevanessag vanessagrig...
Episode 39: Natasha Vargas-Cooper
May 01, 2013 15:46 - 53 minutesNatasha 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 Schrade, Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt • Minneapolis Star Tribune) [19:30] "When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?" (BuzzFeed • Feb 2012) [34:00] "Hard Core" (The Atlantic • Jan 2011) [40:45] Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer • 1999) [41:30] "Bath Salt...
Episode 38: Ted Conover
April 24, 2013 17:27 - 51 minutesTed Conover, author of five books and the recent Harper's article "The Way of All Flesh." Show notes: tedconover.com Interview Transcript Personal Archive [1:00] "The Way of All Flesh" (Harper's • April 2013) [3:30] "Power Steer" (Michael Pollan • New York Times Magazine • March 2002) [15:00] Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants (1987) [33:30] "Enter the Chicken" (Burkhard Bilger • Harper's • March 1999) [34:00] Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (2000) [36:15] The Rout...
Episode 37: Ann Friedman
April 16, 2013 20:36 - 50 minutesAnn 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 Rage" (Nona Willis Aronowitz • GOOD • March 2012) [23:00] "What Women Want" A profile of James Deen (Amanda Hess • GOOD • Nov 2011) [34:45] Tomorrow [39:00] Tomorrow Budget Breakdown [43:00] 2013 National Magazine Awards Finalists Learn more about your ad choi...
Episode 36: Patrick Symmes
April 10, 2013 17:47 - 1 hourPatrick 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 Guevara Legend (2000) [7:00] The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile (2008) [21:45] "Taking the Measure of Castro, Ounce by Ounce" (Harper's • Jan 1996) (subscription required) [22:00] "Ten Thousand Revolutions" (Harper's • Jun...
Episode 35: Jay Caspian Kang
April 03, 2013 17:02 - 49 minutesJay 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 Always the High" (The Morning News • 2010) [11:30] "Immigrant Misappropriations: The Importance of Ichiro" (Grantland • 2011) [15:00] "The White Album" A profile of Royce White (Chuck Klosterman • Grantland • 2012) [21:00] Bill Simmons's Grantland archive Lear...
Episode 34: Molly Young
March 27, 2013 15:59 - 41 minutesMolly 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] "Storming the Beach" (Salon • Jan 1999) [19:30] "Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel" (2002) [21:00] "My Beirut Hostage Crisis" (Salon • June 2000) [25:00] Wikipedia: Flaneur [35:30] 'No Baggage' web series Learn more about your ad choices. ...
Episode 33: Rolf Potts
March 20, 2013 16:24 - 46 minutesRolf 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 • Jan 1999) [19:30] "Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel" (2002) [21:00] "My Beirut Hostage Crisis" (Salon • June 2000) [25:00] Wikipedia: Flaneur [35:30] 'No Baggage' web series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...
Episode 32: Jake Silverstein
March 13, 2013 18:58 - 50 minutesJake 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" (Pamela Colloff • Texas Monthly • Nov 2012) [14:30] Colloff's ongoing coverage of the Michael Morton case [19:30] "Walking the Border" (Luke Dittrich • Esquire • April 2011) [20:00] Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle of Fact and Fiction [27:00] "The Dev...
Episode 31: Emily Nussbaum
March 06, 2013 17:39 - 46 minutesEmily 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, Scandal, and the political game" (The New Yorker • Feb 2013) [8:00] "My Strange Addiction: The sleazy wisdom of Big Brother" (The New Yorker • Aug 2012) [8:40] "My Breaking Bad Bender" (New York • July 2011) [8:40] "Child's Play: Breaking Bad's Bad Dad" (The...
Episode 30: Keith Gessen
February 27, 2013 16:25 - 48 minutesKeith 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" (New Yorker • Aug 2010) [sub req'd] [20:30] n+1 Digital Issue 1: Negation [22:30] McSweeny's [34:00] "The Intellectual Situation" (n+1 • Nov 2012) [35:00] Indecision (Benjamin Kunkel • Random House • 2005) [35:15] The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach • Hachette • 20...
Episode 29: Matthew Power
February 20, 2013 17:56 - 45 minutesMatthew 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] "Mississippi Drift" (Harper's • March 2008) [18:00] "Immersion Journalism" [pdf] (Harper's • Dec 2005) [22:30] "The Cherry Tree Garden" [pdf] (Granta • May 2008) [24:00] "Guerrillas in the Mist" (Feed • 2000) [26:15] "Train Hopping in Canada" (Blue • 2000) [32:30] "...
Episode 28: Joel Lovell
February 13, 2013 17:39 - 50 minutesJoel 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 Year" (Joel Lovell • New York Times Magazine • 2013) [8:20] "The Semplica-Girl Diaries" (George Saunders • New Yorker • 2012) [12:40] George Saunders on respect [12:55] Twitter response to Lovell's profile of George Saunders [14:50] The first time Lovell rea...
Episode 27: Joshua Topolsky
February 06, 2013 17:06 - 36 minutesJoshua 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] jasonsantamaria.com [9:00] "Condo at the End of the World" (Joseph L. Flatley • The Verge • Nov 2011) [9:30] "For Amusement Only: The Life and Death of the American Arcade" (Laura June • The Verge • Jan 2013) [11:00] "Launch Party: A Crowdfunding Revolution Ignites the Next Space...
Episode 26: Jennifer Gonnerman
January 30, 2013 16:21 - 52 minutesJennifer 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 Sex-Offender Cluster of One Long Island Town (New York • Dec 2007) [16:00] "Blood Brothers: How Felix Aponte’s Kidney Transplant to Friend Robert Sanchez Saved Both Their Lives (New York • Nov 2009) [22:00] "Tuesdays With Judy: Battling Mental Illness Wi...
Episode 25: Susan Orlean
January 23, 2013 18:35 - 45 minutesSusan 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 the Shaggs" (New Yorker • 1995) "Life's Swell" (New Yorker • 1995) "Thinking in the Rain" (New Yorker • 2008) "I Want This Apartment" (New Yorker • 1999) Rin Tin Tin (Published 2012) Animalish (Kindle Single) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoi...
Episode 24: Stephen Rodrick
January 18, 2013 16:38 - 24 minutesA 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 notes: @stephenrodrick "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie" (New York Times Magazine • Jan 2013) The Magical Stranger: A Son's Journey into His Father's Life (Due out May 2013) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...
Episode 23: Starlee Kine
January 16, 2013 16:38 - 46 minutesStarlee 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 • February 2005) Kine's archive at the New York Times Journalism Is Not Narcissism (Hamilton Nolan • Gawker • January 2013) Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One-Night Stand of a Life (Elizabeth Wurtzel • New York • January 2013) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...
Episode 22: Charles Duhigg
January 09, 2013 16:06 - 46 minutesCharles 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 U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work" (Duhigg and Kieth Bradsher • January 2012) "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad " (Duhigg and David Barboza • January 2012) The Golden Opporunities Series "How Companies Learn Your Secrets" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2012...
Episode 21: Eli Sanders
December 19, 2012 04:52 - 36 minutesEli 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 War" (The Stranger • Mar 2010) "Gay Marriage's Jewish Pioneer" (Tablet • June 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 20: Patrick Radden Keefe
December 12, 2012 14:20 - 46 minutesPatrick 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 2012) "Revearsal of Fortune" (New Yorker • Jan 2012) "The Trafficker" (New Yorker • Feb 2010) "Welcome to Newburgh, Murder Capital of New York" (New York • Sep 2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 19: Choire Sicha
December 05, 2012 16:39 - 39 minutesChoire 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 18: Mike Sager
November 28, 2012 15:58 - 41 minutesMike 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 Group's first anthology: Next Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists (Featuring Justin Heckert, Pamela Colloff, Chris Jones and more) "The Devil and John Holmes" (Rolling Stone • May 1989) "The Man Who Never Was" (Esquire • May 2009)National Magazine ...
Episode 17: Joshua Davis
November 20, 2012 16:37 - 38 minutesJoshua 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 as it unfolds John McAfee's Last Stand (Kindle Single) Read an excerpt from John McAfee's Last Stand "The Hinterland": McAfee's blog, which he is updating while on the run "The World’s Biggest Diamond Heist" (Wired • Mar 2009) "High Tech Cowboys of the...
Episode 16: Pamela Colloff
November 14, 2012 18:02 - 44 minutesPamela 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 • Oct 2010) "Innocence Found" (Texas Monthly • Jan 2011) "Lip Shtick" (Texas Monthly • Sep 2003) "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch" (Texas Monthly • Nov 2002) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 15: Jonah Weiner
November 07, 2012 14:22 - 40 minutesJonah 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 Longform "Prying Eyes" (New Yorker • Oct 2012) "Kanye West Has a Goblet" (Slate • Aug 2010) "The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress" (New York Times Magazine • Dec 2008) Interview: Vanessa Grigoriadis (The Writearound • Sep 2011) The Writearound Learn more about your ad c...
Episode 14: David Samuels
October 31, 2012 16:32 - 55 minutesDavid 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 Things" (Harper's • June 2012) "Atomic John" (The New Yorker • Dec 2008) "Let’s Die Together" (The Atlantic • May 2007) "Dr. Kush" (The New Yorker • Jul 2008) "Barack and Hamid's Excellent Adventure" (Harper's • Jul 2010) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c...
Episode 13: Adrian Chen
October 24, 2012 16:57 - 47 minutesAdrian 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. Dirr" (Gawker • Jun 2012) "Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History" (Gawker • Apr 2012) "The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers" (Gawker • Jan 2012) The New Inquiry Learn more about you...
Episode 12: Mina Kimes
October 17, 2012 20:10 - 41 minutesMina 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 J&J's Headache Won't Go Away" (Fortune • Mar 2008) "Railroads: Cartel or Free Market Success Story?" (Fortune • Sep 2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 11: Joshuah Bearman
October 12, 2012 14:02 - 32 minutesJoshuah 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" (Esquire • Mar 2012) "The Things That Carried Him" (Esquire • Mar 2008) "TV's Crowning Moment of Awesome" (Esquire • Jul 2010) "Roger Ebert: The Essential Man" (Esquire • Mar 2010) Decât o Revistă magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad...
Episode 10: Chris Jones (Live in Romania)
October 10, 2012 18:01 - 1 hourBefore 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 • Mar 2012) "The Things That Carried Him" (Esquire • Mar 2008) "TV's Crowning Moment of Awesome" (Esquire • Jul 2010) "Roger Ebert: The Essential Man" (Esquire • Mar 2010) Decât o Revistă magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 9: Jeanne Marie Laskas
October 03, 2012 16:09 - 47 minutesJeanne Marie Laskas, author of the new book Hidden America and correspondent for GQ, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @jmlaskas jeannemarielaskas.com Laskas on Longform Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work "Guns 'R Us" (GQ • Sep 2012) "Underworld" (GQ • Apr 2007) "Traffic" (GQ • Apr 2009) "Empire of Ice" (GQ • Sep 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 8: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
September 26, 2012 17:28 - 49 minutesGideon 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 Cat-Industrial Complex" (Wired • Aug 2012) "Tokeville: On the Frontiers of Federalism and Dope" (Harper's • Dec 2009) "The Last Book Party" (Harper's • Mar 2009) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 7: Ta-Nehisi Coates
September 19, 2012 13:19 - 1 hourTa-Nehisi Coates, senior editor at The Atlantic and author of The Beatiful Struggle, interviewed by Evan Ratliff. Show notes: Coates on Longform Coates's blog for The Atlantic "Fear of a Black President" (The Atlantic • Aug 2012) "'This Is How We Lost to the White Man'" (The Atlantic • May 2008) "Confessions of a Black Mr. Mom" (Washington Monthly • March 2002) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 6: Mac McClelland
September 12, 2012 04:00 - 54 minutesMax Linsky talks with Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones. Show notes: @MacMcClelland McClelland on Longform "For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question" (Mother Jones • Mar 2010) "I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave" (Mother Jones • Feb 2012) "The Love That Dares" (Mother Jones • Jan 2012) "I'm Gonna Need You to Fight Me on This" (GOOD • Jun 2011) Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell (Mother Jones • Jan 2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 5: Paul Ford
September 05, 2012 16:18 - 40 minutesAaron Lammer talks with writer and programmer Paul Ford. Show notes: @ftrain ftrain.com Ford on Longform "The Web Is a Customer Service Medium" (Ftrain.com • Jan 2011) "The Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (The Morning News • July 2011) "10 Timeframes" (Contents • June 2012) "Rotary Dial" (Ftrain.com • Aug 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 4: Jon Mooallem
August 28, 2012 22:04 - 57 minutesEvan Ratliff talks with Jon Mooallem, contributor at the New York Times Magazine and author of an upcoming book about people and wild animals. Show notes: @jmooallem jonmooallem.com Mooallem on Longform "Twelve Easy Pieces" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2006) "What's a Monkey to Do in Tampa?" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2012) "Who Invented the High Five?" (ESPN the Magazine • July 2011) "Rescue Flight" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2009) "Can Animals Be Gay?" (New York Times Magazine • ...
Episode 3: David Grann
August 22, 2012 15:20 - 56 minutesDavid Grann, staff writer at The New Yorker, talks with Max Linsky. Show notes: @davidgrann davidgrann.com Grann on Longform "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" (Amazon) "Crimetown, U.S.A." (The New Republic • July 2000) "The Yankee Comandante" (New Yorker • May 2012) "The Squid Hunter" (New Yorker • May 2004) "Trial By Fire" (New Yorker • Sep 2009) "The Chameleon" (New Yorker • Aug 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 2: Janet Reitman
August 15, 2012 10:00 - 53 minutesA contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of Inside Scientology, Reitman talks to Aaron Lammer about her career and offers advice to young writers. Show notes: @janetreitman janetreitman.com Reitman on Longform "Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion" (Amazon) "Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth's Hazing Abuses" (Rolling Stone • Mar 2012) "Sex and Scandal at Duke" (Rolling Stone • June 2006) "Baghdad Follies" (Rolling Stone • July ...
Episode 1: Matthieu Aikins
August 06, 2012 17:55 - 55 minutesThis week, Evan Ratliff talks to Matthieu Aikins (Harper's, The Atlantic) on the eve of his move to Kabul. Show notes: @mattaikins maikins.com Matthieu Aikins on Longform "The Master of Spin Boldak" (Harper's • Dec 2009) "The Siege of September 13" (GQ • Mar 2012) "Our Man in Kandahar" (The Atlantic • Nov 2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices