Episode 488: Sam Knight

Sam Knight is a London-based staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold.

“I had a kind of working definition of what a premonition was when I was writing this book, which is: It's not just a feeling. It's not just a hunch. It's just not like a sense in the air. It's like, you know. You know, and you don't even want to know because you can't know and no one's going to believe you that you know, but you know. And what are you going to do about it? It's a horrible feeling.”

Show notes:

• @samknightwrites
• samknight.net
• Knight on Longform
• Knight's New Yorker archive
• Knight's Guardian archive
• 09:00 "Mixed up in Minsk" (Times of London • Mar 2007)
• 09:00 "Summer Celebrations in Mongolia" (Times of London • Dec 2007)
• 10:00 "Enter Left" (New Yorker • May 2016)
• 17:00 "Inside the Snow Globe" (Harper’s • Jul 2011)
• 21:00 "The Bouvier Affair" (New Yorker • Feb 2016)
• 21:00 "How Football Leaks is Exposing Corruption in European Soccer" New Yorker • Jun 2019)
• 21:00 "How the Sandwich Consumed Britain" (Guardian • Nov 2017)
• 21:00 "The Spectacular Power of Big Lens" (Guardian • May 2018)
• 27:00 "Sadiq Khan Takes on Brexit and Terror" (New Yorker • Jul 2017)
• 27:00 "The Empty Promise of Boris Johnson" (New Yorker • Jun 2019)
• 27:00 "Theresa May’s Impossible Choice" (New Yorker • Jul 2018)
• 27:00 "Nicola Sturgeon’s Quest for Scottish Independence" (New Yorker • May 2021)
• 28:00 "Operation London Bridge: The Secret Plans for the Days After the Queen's Death" (Guardian • Mar 2017)
• 30:00 "President Trump’s First Term" (Evan Osnos • New Yorker • Sep 2016)
• 30:00 "The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest" (Kathryn Schulz • New Yorker • Jul 2015)
• 34:00 The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold (Penguin • 2022)
• 45:00 "The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future" (New Yorker • Mar 2019)

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