Longform

Longform
The Longform Podcast published its final episode in June 2024. All 585 interviews will remain available on
longform.org
Apple Podcasts
, and
Spotify
Longform.org ran from April 2010 to December 2022 and recommended more than 10,000 pieces of nonfiction. The complete archive can be found
here
Thanks for reading and for listening,
Aaron Lammer and Max Linsky, co-founders
June 26, 2024
Podcast
Longform Podcast
#585: John Jeremiah Sullivan
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John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the
New York Times Magazine
and has written for
Harper's
The New Yorker
, and
GQ
. He is the author of
Pulphead
and the forthcoming
The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American History
“I love making pieces of writing and trying to find the right language to say what I mean. It's such a wonderful way of being alive in the world. I mean, your material is all around you. ... I'm lucky that it has stayed interesting for me. It hasn't faded. The challenges of writing, they still glow.”
Show Notes
Sullivan on Longform
Sullivan’s
GQ
archive
Sullivan’s
New York Times Magazine
archive
[10:00]
“Uhtceare”
(Paris Review • May 2021)
[28:00]
Pulphead
(FSG Originals • 2011)
[30:00]
The Best American Essays 2014
(Mariner Books • 2014)
[30:00]
“The Ill-Defined Plot”
(New Yorker • Oct 2014)
[50:00]
“Man Called Fran”
(Harper’s • Sept 2023)
[50:00]
“The Final Comeback of Axl Rose”
(GQ • Aug 2006)
[50:00]
“Upon This Rock”
(GQ • Jan 2004)
[50:00]
“Peyton’s Place”
(GQ • Oct 2011)
[50:00]
“Leaving Reality”
(GQ • Oct 2011)
[54:00]
“Pulp Fever”
(Daniel Riley • GQ • Nov 2011)
Jun 2024
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June 19, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#584: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. His next book is
The Message
“I don’t think we have the luxury as journalists of avoiding things because people might say bad things about us. I don’t even think we have the luxury of avoiding things because we might get fired. I don’t think we have the luxury of avoiding them because somebody might cancel some sort of public speech that we have. I then have to ask you, what are you in it for? Like, why did you come here? Did you come here just to make a living? Because there are many other things where you could make more money.”
Show Notes
ta-nehisicoates.com
Coates on Longform
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[04:00]
"Fear of a Black President"
(The Atlantic • Sep 2012)
[05:00]
The Beautiful Struggle
(One World • 2009)
[12:00]
"The Case for Reparations"
(The Atlantic • Jun 2014)
[13:00]
Between the World and Me
(One World • 2015)
[36:00]
"The Mask of Doom"
(New Yorker • Sep 2009)
[40:00]
"How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I."
(Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and Nic Grant • New York Times • Apr 2024)
[42:00]
Shell Game
(Evan Ratliff • 2024)
Jun 2024
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June 12, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#583: Jay Caspian Kang
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Jay Caspian Kang is a staff writer for
The New Yorker
and a co-host of
Time to Say Goodbye
“At some point, you have to kick it out the door, and it’s never finished to the degree that you would finish a magazine piece. But it, in some ways, is more interesting because it is produced in a short amount of time, and it’s read as something that is not supposed to be complete. It’s just meant to provoke or to provide thought or whatever, to provide some sort of context on a certain issue or not. And I actually like that a lot better than the magazine writing. I respect the magazine writers—obviously, I was one—but for my disposition now, in my lifestyle, I actually enjoy having to produce this thing every week.”
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Show Notes
@jaycaspiankang
Kang on Longform
Kang on Longform Podcast
(Oct 2021)
Kang on Longform Podcast
(Aug 2017)
Kang on Longform Podcast
(Apr 2013)
Kang’s
New Yorker
archive
[06:00]
Coin Talk
[08:00]
Tyler Austin Harper’s
Atlantic
archive
[10:00]
Serial
[12:00]
The Daily
[20:00]
“The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High”
(The Morning News • Oct 2010)
[28:00]
James
(Percival Everett • Doubleday • 2024)
[34:00]
“American Son”
(ESPN • July 2024)
[35:00]
Kang’s
VICE
archive
[42:00]
“Mike Francesa Still Believes in the Power of Radio”
(New York Times • Aug 2018)
[43:00]
Kang’s
Grantland
archive
[43:00]
Kang’s
New York Times
archive
Jun 2024
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June 5, 2024
Podcast
Longform Podcast
#582: Joseph Cox
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Joseph Cox is a cybersecurity journalist and co-founder of
404 Media
. His new book is
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
“In the not too distant future, I will be a very old man, and maybe I won't be able to spend all day talking to drug traffickers. I will be mentally and physically exhausted. So I will doggedly pursue the story right now while I can.”
Show Notes
@josephfcox
Cox's
404 Media
archive
Cox's
Vice
archive
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
(PublicAffairs • 2024)
[08:00]
"FBI’s Encrypted Phone Platform Infiltrated Hundreds of Criminal Syndicates; Result is Massive Worldwide Takedown"
(U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California • Jun 2021)
[10:00]
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
(Bradley Hope and Tom Wright • Hachette • 2018)
[19:00]
"Revealed: The Country that Secretly Wiretapped the World for the FBI"
(404 Media • Sep 2023)
[38:00]
"Follow The Bitcoins: How We Got Busted Buying Drugs on Silk Road’s Black Market"
(Andy Greenberg • Forbes • Sep 2013)
[41:00]
"Hundreds of Bounty Hunters Had Access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Customer Location Data for Years"
(Motherboard • Feb 2019)
Jun 2024
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May 29, 2024
Podcast
Longform Podcast
#581: Tavi Gevinson
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Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of
Rookie
. Her new zine is
Fan Fiction
“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually unstable. So even though it's tempting to go,
Oh, that was fake
, it's more like,
No, it was just temporary
.”
Show Notes
@tavitulle
tavigevinson.world
Gevinson on Longform
Gevinson on Longform Podcast
Gevinson’s
Rookie
archive
[10:00]
Operation Shylock
(Philip Roth • Simon & Schuster • 1993)
[10:00]
Erasure
(Percival Everett • Graywolf Press • 2011)
[14:00]
“Taylor Swift Has No Regrets”
(Elle • June 2015)
[20:00]
I Love Dick
(Chris Kraus • Semiotext(e) • 1997)
[24:00]
“Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?”
(New York • Sept 2019)
[40:00]
“Editor’s Letter”
(Rookie • Nov 2018)
[50:00]
“The Special Panic of Singing Sondheim”
(New Yorker • Dec 2021)
May 2024
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May 22, 2024
Podcast
Longform Podcast
#580: Rachel Khong
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Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is
Real Americans
“It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so interesting to me, to work on a novel and to spend so much time trying to get down on the page what it feels like to be a human being who's alive. … I think the effort itself is what human relationships are.”
Show Notes
rachelkhong.com
[00:00]
Real Americans
(Knopf • 2024)
[01:00]
Goodbye, Vitamin
(Picador • 2017)
[01:00]
Lucky Peach
archive
[01:00]
"Would Limitlessness Make Us Better Writers?"
(The Atlantic • Apr 2024)
[01:00]
"Dust to Dust"
(Eater • May 2024)
[05:00]
"New Pornographers + Stars, 6/25 Prospect Park Summer Stage"
(Village Voice • Jun 2005)
[09:00]
Same Bed Different Dreams
(Ed Park • Random House • 2023)
[12:00]
"Inside My Days as a Content Bot"
(Esquire • Apr 2024)
[24:00]
"The Rumpus Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert"
(Rumpus • Oct 2012)
[24:00]
Eat Pray Love
(Elizabeth Gilbert • Riverhead • 2007)
[24:00]
Elizabeth Gilbert's
GQ
archive
[54:00]
"The Great Pacific Oyster Trail"
(Eater • Jun 2017)
May 2024
Permalink
May 15, 2024
Podcast
Longform Podcast
#579: Kelsey McKinney
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Kelsey McKinney is a features writer and co-owner at
Defector.com
. She hosts the podcast
Normal Gossip
and is the author of the upcoming book
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
“I was always very interested in how you strategize a creative career. And I think that that is an unsexy thing to talk about, right? It's much sexier to be like,
Oh, I love working on my sentence-level craft
, which is not true for me. But I think that a lot of a creative career is understanding it is still a job, and then understanding how you make sure that within the container of the job you can do the work that you want to do. That is a really difficult balance to make. So if you can understand how people who have done it before you, you can copy them.”
Show Notes
@mckinneykelsey
kelseymckinney.com
McKinney on Longform
McKinney’s
Defector
archive
[04:00]
“Why Doesn’t Mrs. Dalloway Get a Day of Her Own?”
(Slate • Jan 2000)
[13:00]
“Chris Evans: American Marvel”
(Edith Zimmerman • GQ • July 2011)
[23:00]
McKinney’s
Deadspin
archive
[31:00]
God Spare the Girls
(Harper Collins • 2022)
[39:00]
“Gossip Is Not a Sin”
(New York Times • July 2021)
[43:00]
You Didn’t Hear This From Me
(Viking • 2025)
[58:00]
“Learning To Play Piano When There Is No Recital”
(Defector • Dec 2023)
May 2024
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May 8, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#578: Lissa Soep
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Lissa Soep is an audio producer, editor and author whose latest book is
Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End
“I am so keenly aware of how much my own voice is a product of editing relationships and co-producing relationships with other people's words. … I will forever feel indebted to those then-young people who are now writers and educators and therapists. … I feel like my voice is sort of a product of that time.”
Show Notes
[00:00]
Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations that Never End
(Spiegel & Grau • 2024)
[00:00]
YR Media
[33:00]
"Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans"
(Sam Anderson • New York Times Magazine • Oct 2021)
May 2024
Permalink
May 1, 2024
Podcast
Longform Podcast
#577: PJ Vogt
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PJ Vogt is the host of
Search Engine
“One of our tests editorially is if we think we’ve got something good, but we haven’t started reporting or recording on it, I’ll just try asking the question at dinner and stuff. If it derails conversations, that’s a really good sign.”
Show Notes
@PJVogt
Vogt’s Substack
Vogt on Longform Podcast
[03:00]
“Why Are There So Many Illegal Weed Stores in New York City? (Part 1)”
(Search Engine • Mar 2024)
[03:00]
“Why Are There So Many Illegal Weed Stores in New York City? (Part 2)”
(Search Engine • April 2024)
[03:00]
“When Do You Know It’s Time to Stop Drinking?”
(Search Engine • Jan 2024)
[08:00]
“Why Are There So Many Chicken Bones on the Street? (Part 1)”
(Search Engine • Jan 2024)
[08:00]
“Why Are There So Many Chicken Bones on the Street? (Part 2)”
(Search Engine • Jan 2024)
[13:00]
“Is There a Sane Way to Use the Internet?”
(Search Engine • Oct 2023)
[15:00]
“How Do You Survive Fame?”
(Search Engine • Feb 2024)
[15:00]
“The Tao of Rick Rubin”
(New York Times • The Ezra Klein Show • Feb 2023)
[15:00]
“Rick Rubin Says Trust Your Gut, Not Your Audience”
(Bari Weiss • The Free Press • Mar 2023)
[16:00]
“Rick Rubin, The Seclusive Zen Master”
(Tim Ferriss • Jan 2023)
[16:00]
“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”
(Gay Talese • Esquire • April 1966)
[18:00]
The Ezra Klein Show
[18:00]
Fresh Air
[19:00]
Crypto Island
(Jigsaw Productions • 2022)
[26:00]
“Do Political Yard Signs Actually Do Anything?”
(Search Engine • Apr 2024)
[27:00]
Reply All
[35:00]
“What’s Going on With Elon Musk?”
(Search Engine • July 2023)
[38:00]
“What’s It Like to Go Blind?
(Search Engine • July 2023)
May 2024
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April 24, 2024
Podcast
Longform Podcast
#576: Lindsay Peoples
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Lindsay Peoples is the editor-in-chief of
The Cut
“You see so many incredible people make one mistake and lose their job or they speak out about something and then the next day something blows up. And so I do think that I often feel like I have to be so careful. And that's hard to do because I'm just naturally curious and I want to know and I want to find and explore and do the things. But I'm aware that … people think I'm too young. I'm too Black. I'm aware of all those things and I'm still going to try.”
Show Notes
[01:00]
"Everywhere and Nowhere: What It’s Really Like to Be Black and Work in Fashion"
(The Cut • Aug 2018)
[09:00]
The Devil Wears Prada
(Fox 2000 Pictures • 2006)
[29:00]
David Haskell on Longform Podcast
[31:00]
"Should I Leave My Husband? The Lure of Divorce"
(Emily Gould • The Cut • Feb 2024)
[31:00]
"The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger"
(Charlotte Cowles • The Cut • Feb 2024)
[31:00]
"Age Gap Relationships: The Case for Marrying an Older Man"
(Grazie Sophia Christie • The Cut • Mar 2024)
[50:00]
"Is There Room for Fashion Criticism in a Racist Industry?"
(The Cut • Aug 2021)
Apr 2024
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April 19, 2024
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Polk Award Winners: Jason Motlagh
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Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at
Rolling Stone
and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg Prize for
“This Will End in Blood and Ashes,”
an account of the collapse of order in Haiti.
“Once you've gotten used to this kind of metabolism, it can be hard to walk away from it. Ordinary life can be a little flat sometimes. And so that's always kind of built in. I accept that. I think I've just tried to be more honest about like, [am I taking this risk] because I need a bump my life? Or do you really believe in what you're doing? And I feel like I really do need to believe in the purpose of the story. There has to be some motivation greater than myself."
This is the last in a series of conversations with winners of this year's
George Polk Awards in Journalism
Apr 2024
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April 18, 2024
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Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey
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Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually published by the
Los Angeles Times
and
Reveal
, as a graduate student in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
“It’s one thing to hear about this tactic and hear about parents being questioned in this way. It’s another thing entirely to hear the change in a parent’s voice when they realize for the past 20 minutes they’ve been speaking ill of a relative who’s actually been dead the entire time, and to hear that wave of grief and sometimes that feeling of betrayal that cropped up in their voice and how the way that they spoke to the officers afterwards changed.”
This is the fourth in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's
George Polk Awards in Journalism
Apr 2024
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April 17, 2024
Podcast
Polk Award Winners: Meribah Knight
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Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award for Podcasting for
“The Kids of Rutherford County,”
produced with
ProPublica
and
Serial
, which revealed a shocking approach to juvenile discipline in one Tennessee county.
“Where does it leave me? It leaves me with a searing anger that is going to propel me to the next thing. But we’ve made some real improvement. And that’s worth celebrating. That’s worth recognizing and saying,
This work matters, people are paying attention
.”
This is the third in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's
George Polk Awards in Journalism
Apr 2024
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April 16, 2024
Podcast
Polk Award Winners: Jesse Coburn
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Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at
Streetsblog
. He won the Polk Award for Local Reporting for
"Ghost Tags,"
his series on the black market for temporary license plates.
“You can imagine this having never become a problem, because it’s so weird. What a weird scam.
I’m going to print and sell tens of thousands of paper license plates.
But someone figured it out. And then a lot more people followed. It just exploded.”
This is the second in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's
George Polk Awards in Journalism.
Apr 2024
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April 15, 2024
Podcast
Polk Award Winners: Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers
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Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television Reporting for
“Inside Wagner,”
their
Vice News
investigation of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic.
“One of the best takeaways I got from seven or eight years at
Vice
is that it’s not enough for something to be important when you’re figuring out how to make a story. It’s the intersection of important and interesting. And that has taught me that people will watch anything, anywhere, as long as it’s interesting. Nobody owes us their time. The onus is on us to explain things in an interesting, compelling way. I’m hoping that a landscape opens up somewhere else that sees that and understands that can be done anywhere in the world.”
This is the first in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year’s
George Polk Awards in Journalism
Apr 2024
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April 3, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#575: Megan Kimble
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Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of
The Texas Observer
and has written for
The New York Times
Texas Monthly
, and
The Guardian
. Her new book is
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways
“I have never lived in a city that was not wrapped in highways. It’s hard for me to imagine anything else. And I think that’s true for a lot of people today. ... [But] we have known since the origins of the interstate highways program that building highways through cities doesn’t fix traffic. And yet we keep doing it. To me, that really fueled a lot of the book. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.”
Show Notes
@megankimble
megankimble.com
Kimble on Longform
Kimble’s
Texas Observer
archive
[11:00]
Kimble’s
Austin Monthly
archive
[13:00]
“Austin’s Not-So-Fair Housing Market”
(Austin Monthly • Sept 2018)
[49:00]
“The Road Home”
(Texas Observer • July 2021)
Apr 2024
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March 27, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#574: Zach Harris
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Zach Harris is a journalist whose latest article for
Rolling Stone
is
"Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling."
“I'm not like a staff writer who has … status and access. But if I come up with something fun that you've never heard of that might connect to the larger culture, then it kind of hits a nerve and a sweet spot for me. Someone like a pro skateboarder or a pro bowler, you guys have never heard of. And so being able to present a person and a culture and a world to a wider audience, I think suits me well and has been really a fun way to do profiles.”
Show Notes
[00:00]
"Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling"
(Rolling Stone • Jan 2024)
[01:00]
"The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever"
(Michael J. Mooney • D Magazine • Jan 2000)
[02:00]
Longform's bowling archive
[13:00]
Harris’s
Vice
archive
[26:00]
Thrasher Magazine
[28:00]
Harris’s
High Times
archive
[29:00]
amandachicagolewis.com
[31:00]
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
(Malcolm Harris • Little, Brown and Company • 2023)
[33:00]
firstwefeast.com
[36:00]
"Pandora’s Bag: Rap Snacks Are Proof that Time Is a Flat Circle"
(Vice • Jun 2012)
Mar 2024
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March 20, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#573: Rozina Ali
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Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for
The New York Times Magazine
and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is
“Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont.”
“I think it’s very, very important to speak to people as people. To speak to sources—even if you have the juiciest story—to really give them the grace. I think everyone deserves it, especially people who are going through such a difficult time.”
Show Notes
@rozina_ali
rozina-ali.com
Ali’s
New York Times
archive
[16:00]
“The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi”
(New Yorker • Jan 2017)
[17:00]
“The ‘Herald Square Bomber’ Who Wasn’t”
(New York Times Magazine • April 2021)
[25:00]
“Marijuana Comes to Coalinga”
(The Nation • Nov 2018)
[29:00]
“‘How Did This Man Think He Had the Right to Adopt This Baby?’”
(New York Times Magazine • Nov 2022)
[43:00]
“The Afghan Women Left Behind”
(New Yorker • Aug 2022)
[46:00]
“What Rashida Tlaib Represents”
(New York Times Magazine • March 2022)
[61:00]
“The ISIS Beat”
(The Drift • April 2021)
Mar 2024
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March 13, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#572: Derek Thompson
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Derek Thompson is a staff writer for
The Atlantic
and host of the podcast
Plain English
“I am an inveterate dilettante. I lose interest in subjects all the time. Because what I find interesting about my job is the invitation to solve mysteries. And once you solve one, two, three mysteries in a space, then the meta-mystery of that space begins to dim. And all these other subjects—that's the new unlit space that needs the flashlight. And that's the part of the job that I love the most: that there are so many dark corners in the world. And I've just got this flashlight, and I can just shine it wherever the hell I want.”
Show Notes
@DKThomp
Thompson's
Atlantic
archive
[00:00]
Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction
(Penguin • 2018)
[00:00]
Plain English with Derek Thompson
(The Ringer)
[05:00]
"Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out"
(Atlantic • Feb 2024)
[18:00]
"The Americans Who Need Chaos"
(Atlantic • Feb 2024)
[23:00]
"America’s Loneliness Epidemic Comes for the Restaurant"
(Atlantic • Mar 2024)
[35:00]
"Stop Trying to Ask 'Smart Questions'"
(Atlantic • Jan 2023)
[39:00]
"The Future of Everything With Derek Thompson"
(The Bill Simmons Podcast • Feb 2024)
[40:00]
"What Many Economists (and I) Got Wrong About This Economy"
(Plain English • Mar 2024)
[43:00]
"How Hollywood’s Hit Formula Flopped—and What Could Come Next"
(Plain English • Mar 2024)
Mar 2024
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March 6, 2024
Podcast
Longform Podcast
#571: Tessa Hulls
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Tessa Hulls is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in
The Rumpus
The Washington Post
, and
The Capitol Hill Times
. Her new book, a graphic memoir, is
Feeding Ghosts
“This project is the thing I have spent my entire life running from. I was incredibly determined to never touch this, either personally or professionally. … It was more an eventual act of resignation than a desire.”
Show Notes
@tessahulls
tessahulls.com
[17:00]
Persepolis
(Marjane Satrapi • Pantheon • 2004)
[19:00]
richardscarry.com
[32:00]
The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency
[36:00]
“Longform Podcast #144: Cheryl Strayed”
Mar 2024
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February 28, 2024
Podcast
Longform Podcast
#570: Sloane Crosley
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Sloane Crosley is the author of
I Was Told There’d Be Cake
and several other books. Her new memoir is
Grief Is for People
“You take a little sliver of yourself and you offer it up to be spun around in perpetuity in the public imagination. That is the sacrifice you make. And it makes everything just a little bit worse. So it's the opposite of catharsis, but it's worth it. It's worth it for what you get in return: a book.”
Show Notes
sloanecrosley.com
Longform Podcast #343: Sloane Crosley
[01:00]
Grief Is for People
(MCD • 2024)
[14:00]
Heartburn
(Nora Ephron • Vintage • 1996)
[25:00]
"Patchett: In Bad Relationships, 'There Comes A Day When You Gotta Go.'"
(Fresh Air with Terry Gross • WHYY • Jan 2014)
[25:00]
Joan Didion on
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
[25:00]
"Long COVID, Chronic Illness & Searching For Answers"
(Fresh Air with Terry Gross • WHYY • Feb 2022)
[32:00]
"Obituary: Russell Perreault, V-P at Vintage Anchor, 52"
(Rachel Deahl • Publishers Weekly • Jul 2019)
[37:00]
The Clasp
(Picador • 2016)
[49:00]
How Did You Get This Number
(Riverhead Books • 2011)
[51:00]
"Five O’Clock Somewhere"
(Gary Indiana • Granta • Feb 2024)
Feb 2024
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February 21, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#569: Lauren Markham
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Lauren Markham is the author of
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
and has written for
The New York Times Magazine
The Guardian
, and
VQR
. Her new book is
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
“It took me a while to figure out that this is actually a book about storytelling, about journalistic storytelling, about the kind of myths we spin culturally and politically, about history, about current events, and the role of journalism within all of that, and my role as a journalist.”
Show Notes
@LaurenMarkham_
laurenmarkham.info
Markham on Longform
[01:00]
The Far Away Brothers
(Crown • 2018)
[03:00]
oaklandinternational.org
[28:00]
How the Word Is Passed
(Clint Smith • Little, Brown and Company • 2021)
[38:00]
“How Greece Secretly Adopted the World’s Most Brazen—and Brutal—Way of Keeping Out Refugees”
(Mother Jones • March 2022)
[44:00]
“For Me, With Love and Squalor”
(Longreads • June 2018)
Feb 2024
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February 14, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#568: Zoë Schiffer
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Zoë Schiffer is the managing editor for
Platformer
. Her new book is
Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter
“Being the person where it's a fireable offense to leak to you … is kind of a badge of honor.”
Show Notes
zoeschiffer.com
Schiffer's
Platformer
archive
Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter
(Portfolio • 2024)
[03:00]
Schiffer's
Verge
archive
[08:00]
"How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor"
(Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton • Verge • Aug 2022)
[16:00]
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
(Michael Lewis • W. W. Norton • 2023)
[36:00]
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
(Ashlee Vance • Ecco • 2017)
[41:00]
Ask a Swole Woman
(Casey Johnston)
Feb 2024
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January 31, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#566: Patricia Evangelista
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Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist whose coverage of the drug war in the Philippines has appeared in
Rappler
Esquire
, and elsewhere. Her recent book is
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
“It is hard to describe the beat I do without saying very often it involves people who have died. And it seemed like an unfair way to frame it. It didn't quite seem right. … Sometimes there's no dead body, or sometimes there's 6,000, but the function is the same: that the people you speak to have gone through enormous painful trauma, and then there's a way to cover it that minimizes that trauma. So … I don't cover the dead. I cover trauma.”
Show Notes
Evangelista's
Rappler
archive
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
(Random House • 2023)
[01:00]
The Mastermind: A True Story of Murder, Empire, and a New Kind of Crime Lord
(Evan Ratliff • Random House • 2020)
[11:00]
Evangelista's
Philippine Daily Inquirer
archive
[21:00]
"The Rapture of Rodrigo Duterte"
(Patricia Evangelista and Nicole Curato • Rappler • May 2016)
Jan 2024
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January 24, 2024
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Longform Podcast
#565: Susan B. Glasser
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Susan Glasser, the former editor of
Politico
and
Foreign Policy
, writes the "Letter from Washington" column for the
The New Yorker
. Her most recent book, written with Peter Baker, is
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
“There’s a great benefit to leaving Washington and then coming back, or frankly leaving anywhere and then coming back. I think you have much wider open eyes. Washington, like a lot of company towns, takes on a logic of its own, and things that can seem crazy to the rest of the country, to the rest of the world, somehow end up making more sense than they should when you’re just doing that all day long, every day.”
Show Notes
@sbg1
Glasser on Longform
Glasser’s
New Yorker
archive
[05:00]
“The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump”
(New Yorker • Dec 2023)
[16:00]
Glasser’s
Politico
archive
[20:00]
The Man Who Ran Washington
(Glasser and Peter Baker • Anchor • 2021)
[28:00]
Peter Baker's
New York Times
archive
[29:00]
Kremlin Rising
(Glasser and Peter Baker • Scribner • 2005)
[37:00]
Theo Baker on the Longform Podcast
Jan 2024
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