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For the first time, Janet Reitman discusses her Rolling Stone cover story on accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. "My editors, myself, a lot of people who work for the magazine — we lived through an act of terrorism. We know what it feels like. There have been accusations to me personally of being insensitive, and I can tell you that I'm far from insensitive, not only to the political realities of terrorism but to the personal realities of terrorism. I breathed it in, literally. … The cover is great on a certain level, because terrorism is emotional, it's real, it affects us. It is not something that happens just overseas or just to people who are somehow "Other." If you talk to terrorism experts around the world, what they will all say is that the vast majority of people who are involved in these violent, extremist acts are what we would consider otherwise to be very normal people. One of us. Part of our community. That's a reality, and it's a very emotional thing and it makes people very uncomfortable. I totally understand that. But that was the point of my story." Show notes: "Jahar's World" (Rolling Stone • July 2013) Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kelley Benham is a writer and editor at the Tampa Bay Times. "People connect with this story in a really visceral kind of way, usually because of some experience they've had or someone close to them has had. I've had 90-year-old women crying into my phone about babies they lost 70 years ago. I've had people kind of sneak up to me and tell me about babies that have died that they don't talk about, but that they carry with them all the time. I've had premies who are grown up—those are my favorite–you know, "I'm 20 now and I have a scar just like Juniper's scar, and thank you for helping me understand who I am." Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @KelleyBFrench Benham's Tampa Bay Times archive [0:30] "Never Let Go" (Tampa Bay Times • Dec 2012) [4:00] "Rampaging Rooster Attacks Girl" (St. Petersburg Times • Oct 2002) [5:45] "From Ordinary Girl to International Icon" (St. Petersburg Times • Mar 2005) [12:30] "23 Weeks, 6 Days" (Radiolab • Apr 2013) [34:00] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Robert Kolker is the author of Lost Girls and a contributing editor at New York. "For better or for worse, my heart's not in the mystery. I want [the killer] to be caught—he's obviously a predator and he's unstable. But they all are. They're all messed up people who victimize other people and they all look normal. The art and science of catching serial killers has become more than slightly overblown in our society. And you know, I love Silence of the Lambs … but I'm not entirely sure that our obsession with who the serial killer is and why a serial killer does it is in proportion with how interesting they end up being." Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @bobkolker robertkolker.com Kolker on Longform Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Harper 2013) [2:15] "A Serial Killer in Common" (New York • Jun 2011) [5:15] "Long Island Serial Killer Victims Bond in Support Group" (Christine Pelisek and Roja Heydarpour • The Daily Beast • Apr 2011) [10:30] "Kaboom" (New York • Mar 2013) [22:15] "The Devil in David Letterman" (New York • Oct 2009) [25:45] Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad (Brett Martin • Penguin 2013) [26:30] Longform Podcast #40: Vanessa Grigoriadis [30:00] Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Adrian Nicole LeBlanc • Nov 2010) [42:00] "My Aircraft" (New York • Feb 2009) [42:00] "I Did It" (New York • Oct 2010) [47:30] "The New Prostitutes" (The New York Times • Jun 2013) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Edith Zimmerman is the founding editor of The Hairpin and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. "I never wrote anything myself or ran anything from other people that was needlessly negative. It wasn't some false grin plastered all over it — we addressed dark things too, and poked fun at things. But I didn't want there to ever be a tone of yeah, let's really just deflate this. Because ultimately you're just stabbing at a ghost among friends. And then at the end you've all just fallen on the floor and the ghost is gone. You're not really doing anything constructive." Show notes: @edithzimmerman edithzimmerman.com The Hairpin [9:00] Letters to the Editors of Women's Magazines (The Awl) [9:45] Longform Podcast #19: Choire Sicha [13:00] "Chris Evans: American Marvel" (GQ • Jul 2011) [18:30] "99 Ways to Be Naughty in Kazakhstan" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2012) [37:15] "Lively Woman Is in Trouble" (The Hairpin • Nov 2010) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of The Skies Belong to Us. "It was this big review in The New York Times and I was terrified that it was going to say something awful about the book or about me as a writer. And my son said to me — he's 5, I should say — "If it's bad, you won't die." That's a good point, you know? So I always think of that when I pick up a new review and take that risk of someone slamming something that I've genuinely poured my heart and soul into." Thanks to TinyLetter and the Literary Reportage Department at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @brendankoerner microkhan.com [3:30] The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (Crown • 2013) [5:15] Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II (Penguin • 2009) [7:45] "Piano Demon" (The Atavist • Jan 2011) [37:45] Koerner's archive at Slate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, discusses "The Oilman's Daughter," his new story in The Atavist. "This woman was given the opportunity to take on a new identity. And it was a mistake. She never should've done it. If there was a way for her to go back and say, 'No, I don't want to know this. I want to be who I am,' then I think she should've taken that. … I'm fascinated with people who want to radically shift their identity. It almost never works out well." Show notes: "The Oilman's Daughter" (The Atavist • June 2013) "Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened" (Wired • Nov 2009) "The Zombie Hunters" (New Yorker • Oct 2005) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steve Kandell is the longfom editor at BuzzFeed. "What would be the sort of longer, narrative nonfiction, journalistic equivalent of something that would have the same effect on you as a bunch of cat GIFs? And not because it's cute, but it's the kind of thing that makes you go, 'OK, I need a lot of other people to see this.'" Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @SteveKandell "David Lee Roth Will Not Go Quietly" (BuzzFeed • Apr 2012) [7:30] "The Movie Set That Ate Itsef" (Michael Idov • GQ • November 2011) [7:45] "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie" (Stephen Rodrick • New York Times Magazine • January 2013) [16:35] "How 'Golden Eagle Snatches Kid' Ruled the Internet" (Chris Stokel-Walker • BuzzFeed • February 2013) [17:35] "The Ghosts of Jonesboro: Fifteen Years After A School Shooting, a Small Town Is Still Recovering" (David Peisner • BuzzFeed • March 2013) [23:40] "Atari Teenage Riot: The Inside Story of Pong and the Video Game Industry's Big Bang" (Chris Stokel-Walker • BuzzFeed • November 2012) [24:30] "Dispatches from the Front Line of Florida's Wild Python Hunt" (Amanda Petrusich • BuzzFeed • February 2013) [27:00] "When A Ten-Year Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?" (Natasha Vargas-Cooper • BuzzFeed • February 2013) [34:30] "Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself on Live Television?" (Jessica Testa • BuzzFeed • May 2013) [35:40] "How A War Hero Became A Serial Bank Robber" (Scott Johnson • BuzzFeed • March 2013) [36:10] "Deep Inside the Biggest Little Dildo Factory in America" (Natasha Vargas-Cooper • BuzzFeed • May 2013) [41:30] "Ben Mathis-Lilly's Brilliant Tirade on New Media" (Storify) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nicholas Schmidle is a staff writer at The New Yorker. "I was in a taxi, leaving Karachi to go attend this festival, and we started getting these very disturbing phone calls from newspaper reporters that didn't exist, all of them asking me to meet them at various places in Karachi. I had read enough about the Daniel Pearl case to know what happened in the days leading up, and this was very similar. ... We kept driving towards the festival, and shortly after that, friends started calling. They were watching local television, and it was being reported that 'Nicholas Shamble,' editor of Smithsonian Magazine, had been kidnapped. And I was like, 'All right, I get the hint.'" Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @nickschmidle nicholasschmidle.com Schmidle on Longform [2:00] "In the Crosshairs" (New Yorker • June 2013) [9:40] "Three Trials for Murder" (New Yorker • November 2011) [25:15] "Next-Gen Taliban" (New York Times Magazine • January 2008) [37:30] "The Hostage Business" (New York Times Magazine • June 2009) [38:15] "Getting Bin Laden" (New Yorker • August 2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Heath, winner of the 2013 National Magazine Award for Reporting, is a staff writer at GQ. "I present myself as someone who is going to be rigorous and honest. And if you can engage in the way I'm asking you to engage, then I hope you will recognize yourself in a more truthful way in this story than you usually do. And maybe even, with a bit of luck, more than you ever have before. That's what I bring. That's my offer." Thanks to TinyLetter and the Literary Reportage Department at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: Heath's GQ archive [15:25] "The Crazy True Story of the Zanesville Zoo Escape" (GQ • March 2012) [27:40] "Graduation Day" (GQ • July 2011) [40:00] "Ricky Gervais's GQ Interview: The Comedy Issue" (GQ • May 2013) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Abrams covers the NBA for Grantland. "Players know that with the stories I do I'm not trying to burn anybody. I'm trying to tell a story for what it's worth and be honest to that person… That's one of my main goals, that you know why this person is [a certain] way when they step on the court. You know why Monta Ellis is going to keep shooting the ball. You know why Zach Randolph is such a gritty player. What these guys have gone through growing up, it materializes in their game." Show notes: @Jpdabrams Abrams's Grantland archive [3:30] "Loose Cannons: Ricky Davis and Lance Stephenson" (Grantland • Apr 2013) [10:45] "The Devil and Stephen Jackson" (Grantland • June 2012) [13:00] "The Two Lives of Zach Randolph" (Grantland • Nov 2012) [14:45] "The Music in Royce White's Head" (Grantland • June 2012) [14:45] "The Professional: Chauncey Billups" (Grantland • Dec 2012) [15:00] "The Miseducation of J.R. Smith" (Grantland • Sep 2012) [23:30] Longform Podcast #35: Jay Caspian Kang [25:30] Grantland Quarterly [31:00] "The Malice at the Palace" (Grantland • Feb 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Margalit Fox is a senior obituary writer for The New York Times and the author of The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. "You do get emotionally involved with people, even though as a journalist you're not supposed to. But as a human being, how can you not? Particularly people who had difficult, tragic, poignant lives. But there are also people that you just wish you had known. And, of course, the painful irony is that you're only getting to know them by virtue of the fact that it's too late." Show notes: @margalitfox The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (HarperCollins • 2013) Fox's New York Times archive [4:15] "Lennart Meri, 76, of Estonia, Dies; President, Filmmaker, Writer" (New York Times • Mar 2006) [4:20] "Samuel Alderson, Crash-Test Dummy Inventor, Dies at 90" (New York Times • Feb 2005) [4:25] "Fred Morrison, Creator of a Popular Flying Plate, Dies at 90" (New York Times • Feb 2010) [4:25] "André Cassagnes, Etch A Sketch Inventor, Is Dead at 86" (New York Times • Feb 2013) [4:25] "John Houghtaling, Inventor of Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, Dies at 92" (New York Times • June 2009) [9:45] "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire • Apr 1966) [14:15] "Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83" (New York Times • May 2012) [17:15] Alden Whitman Is Dead at 76; Made an Art of Times Obituaries (New York Times • Sep 1990) [22:15] "Nguyen Chi Thien, Whose Poems Spoke Truth to Power, From a Cell, Dies at 73" (New York Times • Oct 2012) [23:30] "Sy Wexler, Maker of Ubiquitous Classroom Films, Dies at 88" (New York Times • Mar 2005) [24:30] "Leslie Buck, Designer of Iconic Coffee Cup, Dies at 87" (New York Times • Apr 2010) [39:00] "Alice E. Kober, 43; Lost to History No More" (New York Times • May 2013) [40:45] "John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74" (New York Times • Feb 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mat Honan is a senior writer at Wired. "[The tech] industry — especially as it relates to a lot the silly apps and the silly websites and the silly shit that we put up with — is ridiculous. It's just such a hype fest, people living off of jargon and nonsense. There are entire conferences devoted to nonsense! ... I like to skewer that stuff, because I don't want to feel responsible for it. I don't want to feel like I'm making someone go out and buy some piece of shit they don't need." Show notes: @mat honan.net [0:30] Pop-Up Magazine [2:00] "How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking" (Wired • Aug 2012) [6:00] "Yes, I Was Hacked. Hard." (Honan's Tumblr) [17:15] "Liveblog: Get the Latest Updates From Google I/O 2013" (Wired • May 2013) [17:30] "Welcome to Google Island" (Wired • May 2013) [18:30] "Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter" (Gizmodo • Jan 2012) [27:30] @RUSirius [29:15] "I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle" (Wired • Jan 2009) [31:30] "Stock and Flow" (Robin Sloan • Snarkmarket • Jan 2010) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jonathan Shainin, senior editor at The Caravan. "Working in an environment that's foreign, where you have to kind of think through a lot of things from the ground up...I find it to be really stimulating to have to interrogate the assumptions that you have as an editor about what's interesting and what's not interesting, what's a good story and what's a bad story, what's the story that's been done a million times already. When you get out of a place that is your place, you have to kind of think through some things in a fresh way. And that can be really productive." Show notes: @jonathanshainin The Caravan The Caravan on Longform [8:00] The National [13:00] India: A Million Mutinies Now (V.S. Naipul • 1991) [pdf] [23:45] "Burger Queen" A profile of April Bloomfield.(Lauren Collins • New Yorker • Nov 2010) [29:00] "Falling Man"A profile of Manmohan Singh.(Vinod K Jose • The Caravan • Oct 2011) [29:00] "The Confidence Man" The crumbled cricket empire of Lalit Modi.(Samanth Subramanian • The Caravan • Mar 2011) [40:30] Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo • 2012) [41:00] "Notes from the Undercity" Review of Behind the Beautiful Forevers.(Jonathan Shainin • Bookforum • Feb 2012) [49:30] "The Departed" The return home of Kashmir's disillusioned militants.(Mehboob Jeelani • The Caravan • Sep 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vanessa Grigoriadis, contributing editor at New York and Vanity Fair. On the art of the celebrity interview: "People are smart. Particularly these people. They're sitting there thinking, "When is she going to drop that question?" They know what you're doing. So the way I think about it is: let's have an actual, genuine, human, interesting conversation. ... [Journalists] have all sorts of schemes of what they think works for them. My scheme is no scheme." Show notes: @thevanessag vanessagrigoriadis.com Grigoriadis on Longform [4:00] "Why Is Nancy Pelosi Always Smiling?" (New York • Nov 2009) [13:00] "Can Shakira Conquer the World?" (Rolling Stone • Oct 2009) [pdf] [16:30] "Travels in the New Psychedelic Bazaar" (New York • Apr 2013) [23:30] "New York's Power-Girl Publicists" (New York • Dec 1998) [38:00] "The Adventures of Super Boy" (Rolling Stone • Mar 2011) [40:45] "Everybody Sucks: Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass" (New York • Oct 2007) [43:30] "The Tragedy of Britney Spears" (Rolling Stone • Feb 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Natasha Vargas-Cooper, writer. Show notes: @natashavc natashavc.com Vargas-Cooper on Longform [2:30] "Jesse James Hollywood: On Trial" (The Awl • May-July 2009) [11:00] Mad Men Unbuttoned (2010) [18:30] "The Day-Care Threat" (Brad Schrade, Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt • Minneapolis Star Tribune) [19:30] "When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?" (BuzzFeed • Feb 2012) [34:00] "Hard Core" (The Atlantic • Jan 2011) [40:45] Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer • 1999) [41:30] "Bath Salts: Deep in the Heart of America's New Drug Nightmare" (Spin • July 2012) [42:30] "The Lyman Family’s Holy Siege of America" (David Felton • Rolling Stone • Dec 1971) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ted Conover, author of five books and the recent Harper's article "The Way of All Flesh." Show notes: tedconover.com Interview Transcript Personal Archive [1:00] "The Way of All Flesh" (Harper's • April 2013) [3:30] "Power Steer" (Michael Pollan • New York Times Magazine • March 2002) [15:00] Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants (1987) [33:30] "Enter the Chicken" (Burkhard Bilger • Harper's • March 1999) [34:00] Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (2000) [36:15] The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World (2011) [42:30] "A Snitch's Dilemma" (New York Times Magazine • July 2012) [49:00] Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes (1984) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ann Friedman, writer, editor and co-founder of Tomorrow. Show notes: @annfriedman annfriedman.com Personal Archive [5:45] Pie Charts Archive (The Hairpin) [7:15] #realtalk Column (CJR) [15:00] "The Ann Friedman Weekly" [22:00] "Minimum Rage" (Nona Willis Aronowitz • GOOD • March 2012) [23:00] "What Women Want" A profile of James Deen (Amanda Hess • GOOD • Nov 2011) [34:45] Tomorrow [39:00] Tomorrow Budget Breakdown [43:00] 2013 National Magazine Awards Finalists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Patrick Symmes, foreign correspondent and contributor to Outside and Harper's. Show notes: @patricksymmes patricksymmes.com Symmes's Outside archive Symmes's Harper's archive [2:30] Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend (2000) [7:00] The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile (2008) [21:45] "Taking the Measure of Castro, Ounce by Ounce" (Harper's • Jan 1996) (subscription required) [22:00] "Ten Thousand Revolutions" (Harper's • June 1997) (subscription required) [23:00] "The Generals in Their Labyrinth" (Outside • July 2008) [24:30] "Miraculous Fishing" (Harper's • Dec 2000) (subscription required) [35:00] "Sand Storm" (Outside • May 2011) [39:00] "The Beautiful Game" (Outside • Oct 2012) [42:00] Among the Thugs (Bill Buford • 1993) [49:30] "A Wild Country Grows in South Sudan" (Outside • May 2013) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jay Caspian Kang, writer and editor at Grantland. Show notes: @jaycaspiankang [2:00] "Online Poker's Big Winner" (New York Times Magazine • 2011) [4:30] The Dead Do Not Improve (2012) [8:00] "The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High" (The Morning News • 2010) [11:30] "Immigrant Misappropriations: The Importance of Ichiro" (Grantland • 2011) [15:00] "The White Album" A profile of Royce White (Chuck Klosterman • Grantland • 2012) [21:00] Bill Simmons's Grantland archive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Molly Young, freelance writer for GQ and New York. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Starlee Kine, contributor to This American Life and the New York Times Magazine. Show notes: @StarleeKine Kine's archive on This American Life "Dr. Phil" (This American Life • August 2007) "Where's Walter?" (This American Life • February 2005) Kine's archive at the New York Times Journalism Is Not Narcissism (Hamilton Nolan • Gawker • January 2013) Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One-Night Stand of a Life (Elizabeth Wurtzel • New York • January 2013) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charles Duhigg, New York Times reporter and author of The Power of Habit. Show notes: @cduhigg charlesduhigg.com "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" (Random House • Feb 2012) The iEconomy Series "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work" (Duhigg and Kieth Bradsher • January 2012) "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad " (Duhigg and David Barboza • January 2012) The Golden Opporunities Series "How Companies Learn Your Secrets" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eli Sanders, associate editor at The Stranger and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Show notes: @elijsanders elisanders.com "The Bravest Woman in Seattle" (The Stranger • June 2011) "The Great West Coast Newspaper War" (The Stranger • Mar 2010) "Gay Marriage's Jewish Pioneer" (Tablet • June 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at The New Yorker. Show notes: @praddenkeefe patrickraddenkeefe.com Keefe on Longform Patrick Radden Keefe's books, Chatter and The Snakehead "Cocaine Incorporated" (New York Times Magazine • June 2012) "Revearsal of Fortune" (New Yorker • Jan 2012) "The Trafficker" (New Yorker • Feb 2010) "Welcome to Newburgh, Murder Capital of New York" (New York • Sep 2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Choire Sicha, co-founder of The Awl, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes: @choire choiresicha.com The Awl on Longform The Awl Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. 2009 A.D.) in a Large City (Amazon pre-order) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike Sager, writer-at-large for Esquire and founder of The Sager Group, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @therealsager Sager on Longform thesagergroup.net Sager's latest collection: The Someone You're Not The Sager Group's first anthology: Next Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists (Featuring Justin Heckert, Pamela Colloff, Chris Jones and more) "The Devil and John Holmes" (Rolling Stone • May 1989) "The Man Who Never Was" (Esquire • May 2009)National Magazine Award-winning profile of Todd Marinovich. "Last Tango in Tahiti" (Washington Post • July 1987)Searching for Marlon Brando. "A Day at Gore Vidal's Place" (Esquire • May 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joshua Davis, contributing editor at Wired and author of the new ebook John McAfee's Last Stand, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes: joshuadavis.net Davis on Longform @joshuadavisnow: On Twitter, Davis continues to report the McAfee story as it unfolds John McAfee's Last Stand (Kindle Single) Read an excerpt from John McAfee's Last Stand "The Hinterland": McAfee's blog, which he is updating while on the run "The World’s Biggest Diamond Heist" (Wired • Mar 2009) "High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas" (Wired • Feb 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pamela Colloff, executive editor and staff writer at Texas Monthly, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @pamelacolloff Colloff on Longform "The Innocent Man" (Texas Monthly • Nov-Dec 2012) "Innocence Lost" (Texas Monthly • Oct 2010) "Innocence Found" (Texas Monthly • Jan 2011) "Lip Shtick" (Texas Monthly • Sep 2003) "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch" (Texas Monthly • Nov 2002) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jonah Weiner, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, pop critic at Slate, and contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes and links: @jonahweiner jonahweiner.com Weiner on Longform "Prying Eyes" (New Yorker • Oct 2012) "Kanye West Has a Goblet" (Slate • Aug 2010) "The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress" (New York Times Magazine • Dec 2008) Interview: Vanessa Grigoriadis (The Writearound • Sep 2011) The Writearound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David Samuels, contributing editor at Harper's and frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic, interviewed by Evan Ratliff. Show notes: Samuels on Longform Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Anthology) "Wild Things" (Harper's • June 2012) "Atomic John" (The New Yorker • Dec 2008) "Let’s Die Together" (The Atlantic • May 2007) "Dr. Kush" (The New Yorker • Jul 2008) "Barack and Hamid's Excellent Adventure" (Harper's • Jul 2010) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adrian Chen, staff writer at Gawker and editor at The New Inquiry, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @adrianchen "Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, the Biggest Troll on the Web" (Gawker • Oct 2012) "The Long, Fake Life of J.S. Dirr" (Gawker • Jun 2012) "Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History" (Gawker • Apr 2012) "The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers" (Gawker • Jan 2012) The New Inquiry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mina Kimes, writer at Fortune, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes: @minakimes Kimes on Longform "Bad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story" (Fortune • Sep 2012) "America's Hottest Export: Weapons" (Fortune • Feb 2011) "Why J&J's Headache Won't Go Away" (Fortune • Mar 2008) "Railroads: Cartel or Free Market Success Story?" (Fortune • Sep 2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joshuah Bearman discusses "The Great Escape," his article about a CIA operation in Iran that became the basis for the new film Argo. Show notes: @mysecondempire Jones on Longform "The Honor System" (Esquire • Sep 2012) "Animals" (Esquire • Mar 2012) "The Things That Carried Him" (Esquire • Mar 2008) "TV's Crowning Moment of Awesome" (Esquire • Jul 2010) "Roger Ebert: The Essential Man" (Esquire • Mar 2010) Decât o Revistă magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before a live audience in Bucharest hosted by the Romanian magazine Decât o Revistă, Evan Ratliff interviews Chris Jones. Show notes: @mysecondempire Jones on Longform "The Honor System" (Esquire • Sep 2012) "Animals" (Esquire • Mar 2012) "The Things That Carried Him" (Esquire • Mar 2008) "TV's Crowning Moment of Awesome" (Esquire • Jul 2010) "Roger Ebert: The Essential Man" (Esquire • Mar 2010) Decât o Revistă magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeanne Marie Laskas, author of the new book Hidden America and correspondent for GQ, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @jmlaskas jeannemarielaskas.com Laskas on Longform Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work "Guns 'R Us" (GQ • Sep 2012) "Underworld" (GQ • Apr 2007) "Traffic" (GQ • Apr 2009) "Empire of Ice" (GQ • Sep 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction, interviewed by Aaron Lammer. Show notes: GideonLK.com Lewis-Kraus on Longform A Sense of Direction on Amazon "In Search of the Living, Purring, Singing Heart of the Online Cat-Industrial Complex" (Wired • Aug 2012) "Tokeville: On the Frontiers of Federalism and Dope" (Harper's • Dec 2009) "The Last Book Party" (Harper's • Mar 2009) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor at The Atlantic and author of The Beatiful Struggle, interviewed by Evan Ratliff. Show notes: Coates on Longform Coates's blog for The Atlantic "Fear of a Black President" (The Atlantic • Aug 2012) "'This Is How We Lost to the White Man'" (The Atlantic • May 2008) "Confessions of a Black Mr. Mom" (Washington Monthly • March 2002) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Max Linsky talks with Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones. Show notes: @MacMcClelland McClelland on Longform "For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question" (Mother Jones • Mar 2010) "I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave" (Mother Jones • Feb 2012) "The Love That Dares" (Mother Jones • Jan 2012) "I'm Gonna Need You to Fight Me on This" (GOOD • Jun 2011) Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell (Mother Jones • Jan 2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aaron Lammer talks with writer and programmer Paul Ford. Show notes: @ftrain ftrain.com Ford on Longform "The Web Is a Customer Service Medium" (Ftrain.com • Jan 2011) "The Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (The Morning News • July 2011) "10 Timeframes" (Contents • June 2012) "Rotary Dial" (Ftrain.com • Aug 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Evan Ratliff talks with Jon Mooallem, contributor at the New York Times Magazine and author of an upcoming book about people and wild animals. Show notes: @jmooallem jonmooallem.com Mooallem on Longform "Twelve Easy Pieces" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2006) "What's a Monkey to Do in Tampa?" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2012) "Who Invented the High Five?" (ESPN the Magazine • July 2011) "Rescue Flight" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2009) "Can Animals Be Gay?" (New York Times Magazine • Mar 2010) "The BP-Spill Baby-Turtle Brigade" (New York Times Magazine • Oct 2010) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices