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Episode 33: Rolf Potts Mar 20, 2013

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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 • 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

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Episode 32: Jake Silverstein Mar 13, 2013

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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" (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 Devil and Ambrose Bierce" (Harper's • Feb 2002) (sub req) [28:30] "The Small Boys' Unit: Searching for Charles Taylor in a Liberian civil war" (Denis Johnson • Harper's • Oct 2000) (sub req) [30:30] "What Is Poetry? And Does It Pay?" (Harper's • August 2002) [42:00] "Still Life" (Skip Hollandsworth • Texas Monthly • May 2009)

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Episode 31: Emily Nussbaum Mar 06, 2013

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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, 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 New Yorker • Aug 2012) [11:15] "Reconsidering Two and a Half Men" (New York • Nov 2010) [14:00] "Primary Colors: Shonda Rhimes's Scandal and the diversity debate" (The New Yorker • May 2012) [16:00] "It's Different for Girls" (New York • March 2012) [17:30] "Girls Is Brilliant Gem For HBO" (Tim Goodman • The Hollywood Reporter • March 2012) [20:25] "One-Man Show: Louis C.K.'s unique experiment in television making" (New York • May 2011) [20:25] "Black and Blue: The bruised hilarity of Louie and Episodes" (The New Yorker • July 2012) [24:50] Clive Thompson [25:40] "The Hummingbird Theory'" (The New Yorker • March 2013) [30:20] Lingua Franca archive [32:40] "Analyze This Guy; review of Ronald Hayman's A Life of Jung" (New York Times Book Review • April 2001) [32:40] "Defending Dr. B.: On Theron Raines's Rising to The Light" (New York Times Book Review • Nov 2002) [36:20] "Confessions of a Spoiler Whore" (Slate • April 2002) [38:40] Television Without Pity [39:40] Approval Matrix

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Episode 30: Keith Gessen Feb 27, 2013

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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" (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 • 2011) [43:00] "Nowheresville" (New Yorker • Apr 2011) [sub req'd] [43:15] "Polar Express" (New Yorker • 2012) [sub req'd] [45:30] All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking Penguin • 2008)

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Episode 29: Matthew Power Feb 20, 2013

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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] "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] "The Poison Stream" [pdf] (Harper's • August 2004) [32:45] Caravan magazine [34:30] "Slipping Through the Net"[pdf] (Harper's • April 2012) [37:30] John McPhee: The Art of Nonfiction No. 3 (The Paris Review • Summer 2010)

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Episode 28: Joel Lovell Feb 13, 2013

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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 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 read Saunders [19:40] Writer Paul Tough [23:35] Saturday Night magazine [25:00] GQ conversation between Lovell and John Jeremiah Sullivan [27:45] "Upon This Rock" (John Jeremiah Sullivan • GQ • 2004) [34:40] The New York Observer on Lovell's "Men + Money" column for GQ [35:30] Lovell on money advisors (The Washington Post • 2009) [42:30] "The Upside of the Downside" (Joel Lovell • New York • 2008)

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Episode 27: Joshua Topolsky Feb 06, 2013

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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] 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 Race" (Adrianne Jeffries • The Verge • Jan 2013) [12:30] Vox Media [25:15] The Verge's ethics statement [30:00] The Verge's coverage of CES 2013

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Episode 26: Jennifer Gonnerman Jan 30, 2013

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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 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 With a Paintbrush (Village Voice • Dec 2005) [22:45] "The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder" (New York • Nov 2012) [27:30] Excerpt from G. Dep’s Memoir, The Autobiographical Rapping Dude: The Rhyme Book [32:30] "A Beautiful Mind: On Susan Sheehan's Is There No Place on Earth for Me?" (Columbia Journalism Review • Jan 2013) [41:00] Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett (Picador • 2004) [45:00] There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Alex Kotlowitz • Anchor • 1992)

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Episode 25: Susan Orlean Jan 23, 2013

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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 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)

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Episode 24: Stephen Rodrick Jan 18, 2013

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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 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)

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