Luke Mogelson is a journalist and fiction writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. His latest feature is ”Among the Insurrectionists.”“Get to the front and document as much as you can. ... I think my approach is much more similar to photographers than other writers. I spend a lot of time with photographers and ... I feel like I've gotten pretty good at getting myself into situations where there's few or maybe no other writers around, but there's always a bunch of photographers…. I try to get in right behind the first photographers.”

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Show notes:

06:00 Paul Ford on Longform Podcast

07:00 "Death of a Mountain" (Erik Reece • Harper’s • Apr 2005) [pdf]

11:00 "Prison break: How Michigan Managed to Empty Its Penitentiaries While Lowering Its Crime Rate" (Washington Monthly • 2010)

16:00 "A Beast in the Heart of Every Fighting Man" (New York Times Magazine • Apr 2011)

26:00 Mujib Mashal's New York Times archive

27:00 "The Impossible Refugee Boat Lift to Christmas Island" (New York Times Magazine • Nov 2013)

38:00 "Jesus Plus Nothing" (Jeff Sharlet • Harper’s • Mar 2003)

38:00 "My Four Months As a Private Prison Guard" (Shane Bauer • Mother Jones • Jul 2016)

38:00 "Guarding Sing Sing" (Ted Conover • New Yorker • Mar 2000)

39:00 "Among the Insurrectionists" (New Yorker • Jan 2021)

47:00 "In the Streets with Antifa" (New Yorker • Oct 2020)

49:00 "Armed Protesters Demonstrate Against Covid-19 Lockdown at Michigan Capitol" (Lois Beckett • Guardian • Apr 2020)

50:00 "America’s Abandonment of Syria" (New Yorker • Apr 2020)

50:00 "The Shattered Afghan Dream of Peace" (New Yorker • Oct 2019)

51:00 "In Minneapolis, Protesters Confront the Police—And One Another" (New Yorker • May 2020)

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