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Episode 459: E. Alex Jung

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E. Alex Jung is a senior writer for Vulture and New York. 


”When I'm in that space, I try to be a sponge. I'll just absorb whatever's happening or going on, and I'll be down to do mostly anything. I was actually thinking recently about what my limits would be in a profile. I was like—heroin? I don't think I would do that.”


Show notes:

  • @e_alexjung
  • Jung on Longform
  • Jung's Vulture archive
  • 4:00 "Come as You Are" (The Morning News • Apr 2012)
  • 15:00 "Real Talk With RuPaul" (Vulture • Mar 2016)
  • 18:00 "Bong Joon-ho’s Dystopia Is Already Here" (New York • Oct 2019)
  • 24:00 "Michaela the Destroyer" (New York • Jul 2020)
  • 26:00 "The Joke Was Never on Jennifer Coolidge" (Vulture • Jul 2021)
  • 31:00 "Thandie Newton Is Finally Ready to Speak Her Mind" (Vulture • Jul 2020)
  • 34:00 "The Only One" (Hilton Als • New Yorker • Nov 1994)
  • 39:57 "Anthony Veasna So Knew He Was a Star" (Vulture • Aug 2021)

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