Nicholas Schmidle is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His latest article is "Virgin Galactic's Rocket Man."

“I think there’s a lot more pressure that I’ve put on myself to make sure that the next [article] is better than the last one. To make sure there are sourcing standards and expectations I have for myself now that I might not have had earlier. I’m putting even more priority on building long-term relationships in which I trust an individual. ... I feel like the pieces coming in are tighter in terms of sourcing, but story selection becomes a lot more difficult. You want to do a different story.”

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Schmidle on Longform

Longform Podcast #46: Nicholas Schmidle

[2:00] "In the Crosshairs" (New Yorker • Jun 2013)

[2:00] "Getting bin Laden" (New Yorker • Aug 2011)

[2:20] "Virgin Galactic's Rocket Man" (New Yorker • Aug 2018)

[20:45] "Michael Flynn, General Chaos" (New Yorker • Feb 2017)

[24:30] A Man in Full (Tom Wolfe • Farrar, Straus & Giroux • 1998)

[24:40] I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel (Tom Wolfe • Farrar, Straus & Giroux • 2004)

[25:00] The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe • Farrar, Straus & Giroux • 1979)

[31:45] "Freedom for Tyrone Hood" (New Yorker • Jan 2015)

[33:45] "A Very Rare Book" (New Yorker • Dec 2013)

[37:00] The Staircase (Jean-Xavier de Lestrade • Netflix • 2004)

[39:45] "The Digital Dirt" (The New Yorker • Feb 2016)

[40:10] "The Kings of the Desert" (New Yorker • Apr 2015)

[48:00] "Ten Borders" (New Yorker • Oct 2015)

[56:20] "The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back" (New Yorker • May 2008)

[57:00] Scrivener software

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