Mattathias Schwartz has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Harper's.

"I figure it's like digging through a wall with a spoon: if you spend enough time at it eventually you get to the other side."

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Show notes:

mattathiasschwartz.com

Schwartz on Longform

[4:00] "A Massacre in Jamaica" (New Yorker • Dec 2011)

[20:15] The Philadelphia Independent

[25:00] "The Hold-'Em Holdup" (New York Times Magazine • Jun 2006)

[26:45] "The Trolls Among Us" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2008)

[26:45] "The Church of Warren Buffett" (Harper's • Jan 2010)

[35:00] "The Golden Touch" (Harper's • Dec 2008)

[36:00] The Big Con (David Maurer • Bobbs-Merrill Company • 1940)

[36:30] "The Still Lives of Wells Tower" (Paul Maliszewski • The Brooklyn Rail • Feb 2011)

[37:00] "Petroleum, Louisiana"

[37:00] "How Fast Can He Cook a Chicken?" (London Review of Books • Oct 2011)

[49:00] "Camp Justice" (Kindle Single • Nov 2012)

[50:45] "A Mission Gone Wrong" (New Yorker • Jan 2014)

[53:15] "The Truth of El Mozote" (Mark Danner • New Yorker • Dec 1993)

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