If you missed Monday’s New America NYC event about covering tragedy, check out the podcast.
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In honor of Argo’s Oscar win, we’re having a 99-cent sale on Baghdad Country Club by Joshuah Bearman, the author of the Wired article that inspired Argo.
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Gay Talese’s outline for the 1966 classic Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, one of the best long-form magazine pieces ever penned, written on a shirt board.
Still not sure what a shirt board is…
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The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe and David Grann on what makes nonfiction crime stories so powerful.
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“I always knew that I was not motivated to know things first.” Susan Orlean on the Longform podcast.
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Episode 22 of the Longform Podcast: Charles Duhigg, New York Times reporter and author of The Power of Habit.
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Episode 10: Chris Jones (Live in Romania)
Episode 10: Before a live audience in Bucharest hosted by the Romanian magazine Decât o Revistă, Evan Ratliff interviews Chris Jones.
“It just feels good to fucking win… If you want to say ‘Let’s get rid of [journalism awards],’ no problem. But if they exist, I want to win them.”
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Episode 9: Jeanne Marie Laskas
Jeanne Marie Laskas, author of the new book Hidden America and correspondent for GQ, interviewed by Max Linsky.
“I’m just a writer going into [people’s lives], you know? What do you do with that kind of intensity of a relationship when you’re job is to invoke it on the page? It’s a huge…not just privilege but responsibility. Because, you know, it’s just for a story. And I tell them that: ‘I’m asking you trust me, but at the same time don’t trust me. I’m kind of like a vulture in this relationship—we’re not friends.’”
