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Episode 573: Rozina Ali Mar 20, 2024

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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.”

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@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)

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Episode 572: Derek Thompson Mar 13, 2024

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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.”

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@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" (The Atlantic • Feb 2024)
18:00 "The Americans Who Need Chaos" (The Atlantic • Feb 2024)
23:00 "America’s Loneliness Epidemic Comes for the Restaurant" (The Atlantic • Mar 2024)
35:00 "Stop Trying to Ask 'Smart Questions'" (The 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)

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Episode 571: Tessa Hulls Mar 06, 2024

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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.”

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@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”

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Episode 570: Sloane Crosley Feb 28, 2024

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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.”

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sloanecrosley.com
@askanyone
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)

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Episode 569: Lauren Markham Feb 21, 2024

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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.”

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@LaurenMarkham_
laurenmarkham.info
Markham on Longform
01:00 The Far Away Brothers (Crown • 2018)
03:00oaklandinternational.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)

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Episode 568: Zoë Schiffer Feb 14, 2024

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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.”

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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)

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Episode 567: Chris Ryan Feb 07, 2024

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Chris Ryan is the editorial director for The Ringer, where he co-hosts The Watch and The Rewatchables.

“There is a point where there’s just too much stuff. I can’t read a 5,000-word feature, 10 blog posts, and listen to three podcasts, and then do it all again the next day. So that is the line you walk in digital publishing, whether it’s for editorial stuff or for podcasting. You have to accept the fact that there is not going to be a single person out there who listens to it all, and who can read it all, and who can watch it all. But you can imbue everything you do with a certain quality—both like a personality, characteristic quality, but also like a quality of production—that hopefully anybody who does like this kind of thing will find some value in it.”

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@ChrisRyan77
Ryan’s Ringer archive
3:00Andy Greenwald on Longform Podcast
3:00 Ryan’s Grantland archive
05:00 Ryan’s Spin archive
05:00 Ryan’s Fader archive
05:00 Ryan’s Village Voice archive
06:00 chaunceybillups.blogspot.com
27:00 The Ringer’s Philly Special (The Ringer • 2022)
45:00 Fairway Rollin’ (The Ringer • 2017)

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Episode 566: Patricia Evangelista Jan 31, 2024

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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.”

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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)

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Episode 565: Susan B. Glasser Jan 24, 2024

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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.”

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@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)
37:00Theo Baker on the Longform Podcast

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Episode 564: Rob Copeland Jan 17, 2024

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Rob Copeland is a finance reporter for The New York Times. His recent book is The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend.

“If I stab you, I'm going to stab you in the chest, not the back. You're going to see it coming. ... But if you're going to tell me something's wrong, you have to keep talking. I'm not going to take your word for it. I have a reason for why I believe my reporting to be true, and I'm going to present it to you as best I can. But just because you say something's wrong doesn't make it so.”

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@realrobcopeland
Copeland's New York Times archive
Copeland’s Wall Street Journal archive
02:00 The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend (St. Martin’s Press • 2023)
20:00 The Vow (HBO)
27:00 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyou • Vintage • 2020)
29:00 "#557: Adam Grant" (Longform Podcast • Nov 2023)
29:00 Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Adam Grant • Penguin Books • 2017)
31:00 "Elon Musk Says He Lives in a $50,000 House. He Doesn’t Talk About the Austin Mansion." (Wall Street Journal • Dec 2021)
37:00 Principles: Life and Work (Ray Dalio • Avid Reader Press • 2017)
46:00 Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon (Michael Lewis • W. W. Norton & Company • 2023)

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