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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22

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LONGFORM PODCAST #580: RACHEL KHONG

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Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans.



> “It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't
> fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what
> makes it so interesting to me, to work on a novel and to spend so much time
> trying to get down on the page what it feels like to be a human being who's
> alive. … I think the effort itself is what human relationships are.”






SHOW NOTES

rachelkhong.com 00:00 Real Americans (Knopf • 2024) 01:00 Goodbye, Vitamin
(Picador • 2017) 01:00 Lucky Peach archive 01:00 "Would Limitlessness Make Us
Better Writers?" (The Atlantic • Apr 2024) 01:00 "Dust to Dust" (Eater • May
2024) 05:00 "New Pornographers + Stars, 6/25 Prospect Park Summer Stage"
(Village Voice • Jun 2005) 09:00 Same Bed Different Dreams (Ed Park • Random
House • 2023) 12:00 "Inside My Days as a Content Bot" (Esquire • Apr 2024) 24:00
"The Rumpus Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert" (Rumpus • Oct 2012) 24:00 Eat Pray
Love (Elizabeth Gilbert • Riverhead • 2007) 24:00 Elizabeth Gilbert's GQ archive
54:00 "The Great Pacific Oyster Trail" (Eater • Jun 2017)

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MAY 15

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LONGFORM PODCAST #579: KELSEY MCKINNEY

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Kelsey McKinney is a features writer and co-owner at Defector.com. She hosts the
podcast Normal Gossip and is the author of the upcoming book You Didn't Hear
This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip.



> “I was always very interested in how you strategize a creative career. And I
> think that that is an unsexy thing to talk about, right? It's much sexier to
> be like, Oh, I love working on my sentence-level craft, which is not true for
> me. But I think that a lot of a creative career is understanding it is still a
> job, and then understanding how you make sure that within the container of the
> job you can do the work that you want to do. That is a really difficult
> balance to make. So if you can understand how people who have done it before
> you, you can copy them.”




SHOW NOTES

@mckinneykelsey kelseymckinney.com McKinney on Longform McKinney’s Defector
archive 04:00 “Why Doesn’t Mrs. Dalloway Get a Day of Her Own?” (Slate • Jan
2000) 13:00 “Chris Evans: American Marvel” (Edith Zimmerman • GQ • July 2011)
23:00 McKinney’s Deadspin archive 31:00 God Spare the Girls (Harper Collins •
2022) 39:00 “Gossip Is Not a Sin” (New York Times • July 2021) 43:00 You Didn’t
Hear This From Me (Viking • 2025) 58:00 “Learning To Play Piano When There Is No
Recital” (Defector • Dec 2023)

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MAY 8

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LONGFORM PODCAST #578: LISSA SOEP

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Lissa Soep is an audio producer, editor and author whose latest book is Other
People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End.



> “I am so keenly aware of how much my own voice is a product of editing
> relationships and co-producing relationships with other people's words. … I
> will forever feel indebted to those then-young people who are now writers and
> educators and therapists. … I feel like my voice is sort of a product of that
> time.”




SHOW NOTES

00:00 Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations that Never
End (Spiegel & Grau • 2024) 00:00 YR Media 33:00 "Laurie Anderson Has a Message
for Us Humans" (Sam Anderson • New York Times Magazine • Oct 2021)

May 2024 Permalink


MAY 1

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LONGFORM PODCAST #577: PJ VOGT

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PJ Vogt is the host of Search Engine.



> “One of our tests editorially is if we think we’ve got something good, but we
> haven’t started reporting or recording on it, I’ll just try asking the
> question at dinner and stuff. If it derails conversations, that’s a really
> good sign.”




SHOW NOTES

@PJVogt Vogt’s Substack Vogt on Longform Podcast 03:00 “Why Are There So Many
Illegal Weed Stores in New York City? (Part 1)” (Search Engine • Mar 2024) 03:00
“Why Are There So Many Illegal Weed Stores in New York City? (Part 2)” (Search
Engine • April 2024) 03:00 “When Do You Know It’s Time to Stop Drinking?”
(Search Engine • Jan 2024) 08:00 “Why Are There So Many Chicken Bones on the
Street? (Part 1)” (Search Engine • Jan 2024) 08:00 “Why Are There So Many
Chicken Bones on the Street? (Part 2)” (Search Engine • Jan 2024) 13:00 “Is
There a Sane Way to Use the Internet?” (Search Engine • Oct 2023) 15:00 “How Do
You Survive Fame?” (Search Engine • Feb 2024) 15:00 “The Tao of Rick Rubin” (New
York Times • The Ezra Klein Show • Feb 2023) 15:00 “Rick Rubin Says Trust Your
Gut, Not Your Audience” (Bari Weiss • The Free Press • Mar 2023) 16:00 “Rick
Rubin, The Seclusive Zen Master” (Tim Ferriss • Jan 2023) 16:00 “Frank Sinatra
Has a Cold” (Gay Talese • Esquire • April 1966) 18:00 The Ezra Klein Show 18:00
Fresh Air 19:00 Crypto Island (Jigsaw Productions • 2022) 26:00 “Do Political
Yard Signs Actually Do Anything?” (Search Engine • Apr 2024) 27:00 Reply All
35:00 “What’s Going on With Elon Musk?” (Search Engine • July 2023) 38:00
“What’s It Like to Go Blind? (Search Engine • July 2023)

May 2024 Permalink


APRIL 24

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LONGFORM PODCAST #576: LINDSAY PEOPLES

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Lindsay Peoples is the editor-in-chief of The Cut.



> “You see so many incredible people make one mistake and lose their job or they
> speak out about something and then the next day something blows up. And so I
> do think that I often feel like I have to be so careful. And that's hard to do
> because I'm just naturally curious and I want to know and I want to find and
> explore and do the things. But I'm aware that … people think I'm too young.
> I'm too Black. I'm aware of all those things and I'm still going to try.”




SHOW NOTES

01:00 "Everywhere and Nowhere: What It’s Really Like to Be Black and Work in
Fashion" (The Cut • Aug 2018) 09:00 The Devil Wears Prada (Fox 2000 Pictures •
2006) 29:00 David Haskell on Longform Podcast 31:00 "Should I Leave My Husband?
The Lure of Divorce" (Emily Gould • The Cut • Feb 2024) 31:00 "The Day I Put
$50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger" (Charlotte Cowles • The Cut •
Feb 2024) 31:00 "Age Gap Relationships: The Case for Marrying an Older Man"
(Grazie Sophia Christie • The Cut • Mar 2024) 50:00 "Is There Room for Fashion
Criticism in a Racist Industry?" (The Cut • Aug 2021)

Apr 2024 Permalink


APRIL 19

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POLK AWARD WINNERS: JASON MOTLAGH

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Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at Rolling
Stone and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg
Prize for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” an account of the collapse of
order in Haiti.

> “Once you've gotten used to this kind of metabolism, it can be hard to walk
> away from it. Ordinary life can be a little flat sometimes. And so that's
> always kind of built in. I accept that. I think I've just tried to be more
> honest about like, [am I taking this risk] because I need a bump my life? Or
> do you really believe in what you're doing? And I feel like I really do need
> to believe in the purpose of the story. There has to be some motivation
> greater than myself."

This is the last in a series of conversations with winners of this year's George
Polk Awards in Journalism.

Apr 2024 Permalink


APRIL 18

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POLK AWARD WINNERS: BRIAN HOWEY

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Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice
Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He
began the project, which was eventually published by the Los Angeles Times and
Reveal, as a graduate student in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

> “It’s one thing to hear about this tactic and hear about parents being
> questioned in this way. It’s another thing entirely to hear the change in a
> parent’s voice when they realize for the past 20 minutes they’ve been speaking
> ill of a relative who’s actually been dead the entire time, and to hear that
> wave of grief and sometimes that feeling of betrayal that cropped up in their
> voice and how the way that they spoke to the officers afterwards changed.”

This is the fourth in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this
year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.

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APRIL 17

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POLK AWARD WINNERS: MERIBAH KNIGHT

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Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award
for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” produced with ProPublica and
Serial, which revealed a shocking approach to juvenile discipline in one
Tennessee county.

> “Where does it leave me? It leaves me with a searing anger that is going to
> propel me to the next thing. But we’ve made some real improvement. And that’s
> worth celebrating. That’s worth recognizing and saying, This work matters,
> people are paying attention.”

This is the third in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this
year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.

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APRIL 16

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POLK AWARD WINNERS: JESSE COBURN

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Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. He won the Polk Award
for Local Reporting for "Ghost Tags," his series on the black market for
temporary license plates.

> “You can imagine this having never become a problem, because it’s so weird.
> What a weird scam. I’m going to print and sell tens of thousands of paper
> license plates. But someone figured it out. And then a lot more people
> followed. It just exploded.”

This is the second in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this
year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.

Apr 2024 Permalink


APRIL 15

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POLK AWARD WINNERS: AMEL GUETTATFI AND JULIA STEERS

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Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television
Reporting for “Inside Wagner,” their Vice News investigation of Russian
mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic.

> “One of the best takeaways I got from seven or eight years at Vice is that
> it’s not enough for something to be important when you’re figuring out how to
> make a story. It’s the intersection of important and interesting. And that has
> taught me that people will watch anything, anywhere, as long as it’s
> interesting. Nobody owes us their time. The onus is on us to explain things in
> an interesting, compelling way. I’m hoping that a landscape opens up somewhere
> else that sees that and understands that can be done anywhere in the world.”

This is the first in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this
year’s George Polk Awards in Journalism.

Apr 2024 Permalink


APRIL 3

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LONGFORM PODCAST #575: MEGAN KIMBLE

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Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has
written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.



> “I have never lived in a city that was not wrapped in highways. It’s hard for
> me to imagine anything else. And I think that’s true for a lot of people
> today. ... [But] we have known since the origins of the interstate highways
> program that building highways through cities doesn’t fix traffic. And yet we
> keep doing it. To me, that really fueled a lot of the book. It wasn’t supposed
> to be this way.”




SHOW NOTES

@megankimble megankimble.com Kimble on Longform Kimble’s Texas Observer archive
11:00 Kimble’s Austin Monthly archive 13:00 “Austin’s Not-So-Fair Housing
Market” (Austin Monthly • Sept 2018) 49:00 “The Road Home” (Texas Observer •
July 2021)

Apr 2024 Permalink


MARCH 27

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LONGFORM PODCAST #574: ZACH HARRIS

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Zach Harris is a journalist whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Meet the
Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling."



> “I'm not like a staff writer who has … status and access. But if I come up
> with something fun that you've never heard of that might connect to the larger
> culture, then it kind of hits a nerve and a sweet spot for me. Someone like a
> pro skateboarder or a pro bowler, you guys have never heard of. And so being
> able to present a person and a culture and a world to a wider audience, I
> think suits me well and has been really a fun way to do profiles.”






SHOW NOTES

00:00 "Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling" (Rolling Stone • Jan 2024)
01:00 "The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever" (Michael J. Mooney • D Magazine •
Jan 2000) 02:00 Longform's bowling archive 13:00 Harris’s Vice archive 26:00
Thrasher Magazine 28:00 Harris’s High Times archive 29:00 amandachicagolewis.com
31:00 Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (Malcolm
Harris • Little, Brown and Company • 2023) 33:00 firstwefeast.com 36:00
"Pandora’s Bag: Rap Snacks Are Proof that Time Is a Flat Circle" (Vice • Jun
2012)

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MARCH 20

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LONGFORM PODCAST #573: ROZINA ALI

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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.”




SHOW NOTES

@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)

Mar 2024 Permalink


MARCH 13

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LONGFORM PODCAST #572: DEREK THOMPSON

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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.”




SHOW NOTES

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

Mar 2024 Permalink


MARCH 6

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LONGFORM PODCAST #571: TESSA HULLS

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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.”






SHOW NOTES

@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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FEBRUARY 28

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LONGFORM PODCAST #570: SLOANE CROSLEY

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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.”




SHOW NOTES

sloanecrosley.com 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)

Feb 2024 Permalink


FEBRUARY 21

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LONGFORM PODCAST #569: LAUREN MARKHAM

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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.”






SHOW NOTES

@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)

Feb 2024 Permalink


FEBRUARY 14

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LONGFORM PODCAST #568: ZOË SCHIFFER

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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.”




SHOW NOTES

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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JANUARY 31

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LONGFORM PODCAST #566: PATRICIA EVANGELISTA

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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.”




SHOW NOTES

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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JANUARY 24

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LONGFORM PODCAST #565: SUSAN B. GLASSER

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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.”






SHOW NOTES

@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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JANUARY 17

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LONGFORM PODCAST #564: ROB COPELAND

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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.”




SHOW NOTES

@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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LONGFORM PODCAST #563: MILES JOHNSON

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Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter for the Financial Times. He is the
author of Chasing Shadows: A True Story of Drugs, War and the Secret World of
International Crime and the host of Hot Money: The New Narcos.



> “I’m really fascinated always by the ways in which people just have to do
> really boring parts of running a crime organization … I love the banalities of
> this stuff. We have a fictionalized version of crime groups and it’s obviously
> glamorous, and they’re really smart, but there’s a lot of stuff that’s
> bumbling incompetence as well or just quite unglamorous.”






SHOW NOTES

@MilesMJohnson Johnson’s Financial Times archive 06:00 Johnson’s Guardian
archive 07:00 Paul Murphy’s Financial Times archive 9:00 “How the Mafia
Infiltrated Italy’s Hospitals and Laundered the Profits Globally” (Financial
Times • July 2020) 14:00 “The Mystery of the Mogul, the Casino and the Heist
that Rocked Mayfair” (Financial Times • May 2022)

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LONGFORM PODCAST #562: DAISY ALIOTO

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Daisy Alioto is a journalist and the CEO of Dirt Media.



> “I don't think I was ever super precious about my writing, but if I was, I'm
> zero percent precious about it now. Every time I write for Dirt, it saves the
> company money. ... Nothing will make you sit down and write 800 words in 20
> minutes than just needing to get it done. And that is a change that I've seen
> in myself. I would encourage everyone to be less precious about their
> writing.”




SHOW NOTES

daisyalioto.com 00:00 Dirt 09:00 "Marie Colvin’s Private War" (Marie Brenner •
Vanity Fair • Jul 2012) 09:00 A Private War (Acacia Filmed Entertainment, Savvy
Media Holdings, Thunder Road Pictures • 2018) 05:00 Airmail 11:00 "Pretend it’s
a living" (Dirt • Jan 2021) 15:00 Prune 16:00 Hung Up (Hunter Harris) 16:00
Maybe Baby (Hayley Nahman) 16:00 Today in Tabs (Rusty Foster) 16:00 Blackbird
Spyplane (Jonah Weiner and Erin Wylie) 16:00 Singal-Minded (Jesse Singal) 17:00
"The Complete History & Strategy of LVMH" (Acquired • Feb 2023) 24:00 "Grizzly
man" (Amelia K. • Dirt • Jun 2023) 24:00 "The Question of U" (Amelia K. • Dirt •
Nov 2023) 25:00 "Diary of a chess tournament" (Akram Herrak • Dirt • Nov 2023)
25:00 "The sound of your voice" (Joann Plockova • Dirt • Nov 2023) 25:00 "For
the love of chickens" (Tove Danovich • Dirt • Sep 2023) 26:00 "Bad waitress"
(Becca Schuh • Dirt • Jun 2023) 28:00 "Užupis Utopia" (Playboy • Dec 2019) 35:00
Someone Who Isn’t Me (Geoff Rickly • Rose Books • 2023) 37:00 Fragantica 37:00
"Bottle Elizabeth Taylor" (Daisy Alioto • Dirt • Jun 2023) 39:00 The Ugly
History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption (Katy Kelleher •
Simon & Schuster • 2023) 41:00 Scent + Song (Vivian Medithi) 44:00 Axios 44:00
The Information 44:00 Punchbowl News 44:00 The Ankler 44:00 Semafor

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LONGFORM PODCAST #561: IAN COSS

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Ian Coss is a journalist, audio producer, and composer. He is the host of
Forever is a Long Time and The Big Dig.



> “One thing that I really carried with me in making the show is a belief that
> bureaucracy is interesting. And that once you get through the jargon and wonky
> sounding stuff … beyond that it’s all just human drama.”




SHOW NOTES

@ian_coss iancoss.com 32:00 Isabel Hibbard’s website 33:00 Forever is a Long
Time (PRX • 2021) 37:00 Lacy Roberts’ website

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LONGFORM PODCAST #560: MOSI SECRET

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Mosi Secret has written for ProPublica, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ. His
new podcast is Radical.



> “I think this story made me call on parts of myself that are not journalistic
> because I don’t really think that’s the way we’re going to get out of this at
> this point in my life. I think that it takes a more radical reimagining of who
> we are as human beings, the ways in which we’re connected, and what we owe to
> each other. And that’s not a reporting thing—that’s a ‘who are you’ kind of
> thing.”




SHOW NOTES

mosisecret.com Secret on Longform Secret’s New York Times archive 10:00 “Stolen
Youth: How Durham's Criminal Justice System Sent Erick Daniels to Prison Based
on the Shape of His Eyebrows” (INDYWeek • May 2007) 18:00 “On the Brink in
Brownsville” (New York Times Magazine • May 2014) 21:00 “‘The Way to Survive It
Was to Make A’s’” (New York Times Magazine • September 2017) 23:00Johnny
Kauffman’s website 28:00 “Having a Drink With Mosi Secret, the New York Times’
First-Ever Sin and Vice Reporter” (Joe Coscarelli • New York Magazine • June
2014) 29:00 “Behind the Red Door” (New York Times • May 2014) 38:00 “The Real
'CSI': How America’s Patchwork System of Death Investigations Puts the Living at
Risk” (A.C. Thompson • ProPublica • Feb 2011)

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