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Dana Goodyear is a staff writer for The New Yorker and host of the new podcast Lost Hills.“I do find people who take risks—artistic and physical or even intellectual risks—really interesting. ... There are so many people that I have written about who take a really long time with their projects, whether years or decades, and they might or might not work out. ... They just don't go along with what's received, and they—at a great personal cost—often do things that are very different. And then those things are the things in our world that are the most fascinating or feel the most human.”

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Show notes:

@danagoodyear

danagoodyear.com

Goodyear on Longform

Goodyear's New Yorker archive

01:00 Lost Hills (Western Sound and Pushkin Industries • 2021)

32:00 "An Artist’s Life, Refracted in Film" (New Yorker • Jan 2019)

42:00 "The Gardener" (New Yorker • Aug 2003)

49:00 "The Scavenger" (New Yorker • Nov 2009)

49:00 "A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth" (New Yorker • Oct 2019)

42:00 "Man of Extremes" (New Yorker • Oct 2009)

42:00 Honey Junk (W.W. Norton • 2006)

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Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist and the deputy inequality editor at BuzzFeed News. His book Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes comes out in October.“I don’t think any child of the recession will ever not feel precarious. And being in journalism makes that even more so. ... At this point I’ve embraced the precarity of working in this industry. I’m sure at some point it’s going to be grating for people to hear me talk about how precarious and insecure I feel. … But I’ve got too many friends who are way too talented, who can’t use that talent in the ways that they are passionate about, for me to ever feel like my place in this industry is fully cemented.”

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@AlbertSamaha

albertsamaha.com

Samaha on Longform

Samaha's BuzzFeed archive

11:00 Never Ran, Never Will Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City (PublicAffairs • 2018)

17:00 "The Tragedy of Louis Scarcella" (Village Voice • Aug 2014)

23:00 "A Bronx Betrayal" (BuzzFeed • Jan 2015)

36:00 Concepcion

40:00 "Looking For Right And Wrong In The Philippines" (BuzzFeed • May 2017)

40:00 "My Uncle Spanky, the Rock Star Who Left It All Behind" (Pop-Up • Jun 2020)

42:00 "I Followed My Uncle’s Legend To Italy, And Found A New Way Forward" (BuzzFeed • Mar 2018)

42:00 "My Mom Believes In QAnon. I’ve Been Trying To Get Her Out." (BuzzFeed • Mar 2021)

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Bonnie Tsui is a journalist and the author of Why We Swim.“I am a self-motivated person. I really don’t like being told what to do. I’ve thought about this many times over the last 16 years that I’ve been a full-time freelancer... even though I thought my dream was to always and forever be living in New York, working in publishing, working at a magazine, being an editor, writing. When I was an editor, I kind of hated it. I just didn’t like being chained to a desk.”

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Show notes:

@bonnietsui

bonnietsui.com

02:00 Why We Swim (Algonquin • 2020)

03:30 American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods (Tsui • Free Press • 2009)

10:30 The Deep (2012)

28:00 "With His Absence, My Artist Father Taught Me the Art of Vanishing" (Catapult • Feb 2019)

41:30 "After Fires, Napa and Sonoma Tourism Industry Is Getting Back on Its Feet" (New York Times • Oct 2017)

44:30 "Child Care: What — and Who — It Takes to Raise a Family" (California Sunday • July 2019)

49:00 "The Break: Female Big-Wave Surfers Prepare to Compete on Mavericks’s 50-Foot Waves for the First Time" (California Sunday • Aug 2018)

50:00 "Meet the Women Who Are Changing What it Means to be a Mom and a Professional Athlete" (Sports Illustrated • Dec 2019)

53:30 "You Are Doing Something Important When You Aren’t Doing Anything" (New York Times • June 2019)

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Jessica Lessin is founder and editor-in-chief of The Information.“It's very, very hard to predict the winners. A lot of investors try to do this. And I think sometimes where the press gets in trouble is trying to make a call.… It's not always our job to say this thing is doomed or not. I think many journalists, unfortunately, are more interested in that than in understanding, What is this company trying to do?”

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Show notes: 

@Jessicalessin

theinformation.com

Lessin's archive at The Information

11:00 "Android’s Andy Rubin Left Google After Inquiry Found Inappropriate Relationship" (Reed Albergotti • The Information • Nov 2017)

11:00 "Silicon Valley Women Tell of VC’s Unwanted Advances" (Reed Albergotti • The Information • Jun 2017)

23:00 Paul Steiger at ProPublica

23:00 Kevin Delaney at Quartz

26:00 "Facebook Hit by FTC Antitrust Suit That Seeks to Break Off Instagram, WhatsApp" (Christopher Stern • The Information • Dec 2020)

31:00 "People are leaving S.F., but not for Austin or Miami. USPS data shows where they went" (J.K. Dineen • San Francisco Chronicle • Feb 2021)

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Elon Green is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Awl, New York, and other publications. His new book is Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York.“The murders and the murderer should not be the driver. It should simply be the catalyst for the other story. And the other story is the victims. And the other story is the political backdrop and the environment that they are walking through.”

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Show notes:

@elongreen

elongreen.com

Green on Longform

00:00 Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York (Celadon Books • 2021)

03:00 @DavidGrann

05:00 davidyaffe.com

07:00 Pamela Colloff on Longform

10:00 The Advocate

13:00 "The Enduring, Pernicious Whiteness of True Crime" (The Appeal • Aug 2020)

13:00 Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann • Doubleday Books • 2017)

13:00 Missing & Murdered (CBC News)

13:00 Connie Walker on the Longform Podcast

19:00 "These Gay Men Frequented Manhattan Piano Bars. So Did Their Killer." (Christopher Bollen • New York Times • Mar 2021)

19:00 "Last Call: Behind the Terrifying Untold Story of New York's Gay Bar Killer" (Jim Farber • The Guardian • Mar 2021)

21:00 "Do Threads of Five Lives Lead to One Serial Killer?" (Ian Fisher • New York Times • Aug 1993)

30:00 "The Untold Story of the Doodler Murders" (The Awl • Dec 2014)

32:00 "The Real Lolita" (Sarah Weinman • Hazlitt • Nov 2014)

35:00 @ChrisCillizza

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Jess Zimmerman is editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. Her new book is Women and Other Monsters.“My goals are to be exactly as vulnerable as I feel is necessary. And not that’s necessary to me—that's necessary to the observer, to the reader. If [my story] is out there, it's out there because in order to make the larger point that I wanted to make … I had to give this level of access. It does kind of feel more strategic than cathartic.”

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Show notes:

@j_zimms

jesszimmerman.com

Zimmerman's Electric Literature archive

01:00 Women and Other Monsters (Beacon Press • 2021)

03:00 "Hunger Makes Me" (Hazlitt • Jul 2016)

04:00 Charybdis (theoi.com)

05:00 Mary Roach's website

08:00 The Furies (theoi.com)

11:00 Lindy West's website

12:00 "We Can’t Believe Survivors’ Stories If We Never Hear Them" (Rachel Zarrow • Electric Literature • Mar 2021)

16:00 "Why Are Portholes Being Used on Cows?" (BBC News • Jun 2019)

22:00 Longform Podcast #193: Robin Marantz Henig

24:00 "The Biggest Moments in xoJane History" (Eve Peyser • Jezebel • Jan 2017)

31:00 I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder (Sarah Kurchak • Douglas & McIntyre • 2020)

31:00 Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Angela Chen • Beacon Press • 2020)

32:00 "’Where’s My Cut?’: Un Unpaid Emotional Labor" (The Toast • Jul 2015)

33:00 "’Where’s My Cut?’: Un Unpaid Emotional Labor" MetaFilter thread

37:00 Catapult

37:00 Hazlitt

37:00 Electric Literature

38:00 "What We Learned From Meghan and Harry’s Interview" (Sarah Lyall and Tariro Mzezewa • New York Times • Mar 2021)

39:00 "Please Just Let Women Be Villiains" (Elyse Martin • Electric Literature • Feb 2021)

39:00 Circe (Madeline Miller • Little, Brown and Company • 2018)

41:00 "How to Arrange a Poetry Collection Using Mix Tape Rules" (Rachelle Toarmino • Electric Literature • Mar 2021)

41:00 "What If We Cultivated Our Ugliness? or: The Monstrous Beauty of Medusa" (Catapult • May 2017)

43:00 Zimmerman's newsletter Dead Channel

43:00 "A Midlife Crisis, By Any Other Name" (Hazlitt • Jul 2015)

46:00 Lamia (theoi.com)

55:00 "I Always Thought of Myself as a Person Who Pays Attention" (Sarah Miller • Medium • Mar 2021)

 

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Tejal Rao is the California restaurant critic for The New York Times and a columnist for The New York Times Magazine.“I've been thinking a lot about what makes a restaurant good…. Can a restaurant be good if it doesn't have wheelchair access? Can a restaurant be good if the farmers picking the tomatoes are getting sick? How much do we consider when we talk about if a restaurant is good or not? … If people are being exploited at every single point possible along the way, how good is the restaurant, really? … I worry that the pandemic has illuminated all of these issues and things are just going to keep going the way that they were.... That's what I worry about. That nothing will change.”

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Show notes:

@tejalrao

tejalrao.com

Rao's New York Times archive

01:00 "Is My Takeout Risking Lives or Saving Restaurants?" (New York Times • Apr 2020)

03:00 Rao's Atlantic archive

09:00 Rao's Saveur archive

13:00 "For Best Results, Eat This Roti Immediately" (New York Times • Oct 2020)

13:00 "Dining and Driving on the Empty Freeways of Los Angeles" (New York Times • Mar 2020)

14:00 "A Day in the Life of a Food Vendor" (New York Times • Apr 2017)

14:00 "India’s ‘Pickle Queen’ Preserves Everything, Including the Past" (New York Times • Jul 2020)

19:00 "Oysters: A Love Story" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2017)

26:00 "I Lost My Appetite Because of Covid. This Sichuan Flavor Brought It Back." (New York Times Magazine • Jan 2021)

30:00 "The Old-School Reasons to Love Los Angeles Restaurants" (New York Times • Feb 2019)

33:00 "How Kit Kat Got Big in Japan" (New York Times Magazine • Oct 2018)

43:00 "Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19" (Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung • ProPublica • Aug 2020)

Illustration by Tony Millionaire

 

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Connie Walker is an investigative reporter and podcast host. Her new show is Stolen: The Search for Jermain.“For so long, there has been this kind of history of journalists coming in and taking stories from Indigenous communities. And that kind of extractive, transactional kind of journalism that really causes a lot of harm. And so much of our work is trying to undo and address that. There is a way to be a storyteller and help amplify and give people agency in their stories.”

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Show notes:

@connie_walker

Walker's CBC News archive

00:00 Missing & Murdered (CBC News)

04:00 "The Injustice to Pamela George Continues Long After Her Murder" (Heather Mallick • Toronto Star • Jan 2020)

08:00 Street Cents (CBC)

12:00 "Alicia Ross: Everyone’s Daughter" (Catherine McDonald • Global News • Apr 2020)

14:00 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 1: "Indigenous in the City" (CBC • 2012)

19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 2: "It’s Time" (CBC • 2012)

19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 3: "Whose Land Is It Anyway?" (CBC • 2012)

19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 4: "At the Crossroads" (CBC • 2012)

22:00 "Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview" (Royal Canadian Mounted Police • 2014)

24:00 "Missing and Murdered: The Life and Mysterious Death of Leah Anderson" (CBC News • Mar 2015)

26:00 Serial

27:00 "Amber Tuccaro's Unsolved Murder: Do You Recognize This Voice?" (Marnie Luke and Connie Walker • CBC News • Jun 2015)

27:00 "Unresolved: Patricia Carpenter" (Holly Moore • CBC News • Jun 2016)

27:00 Missing & Murdered Season 1: Who Killed Alberta Williams? (Connie Walker and Marnie Luke • CBC News)

27:00 Missing & Murdered Season 2: Finding Cleo (Connie Walker and Marnie Luke • CBC News)

35:00 Ochberg Fellowship

37:00 "Duncan McCue on Reporting in Indigenous Communities" (Ryerson Today • Apr 2018)

37:00 Reporting in Indigenous Communities Guide (Duncan McCue)

39:00 Stolen (Gimlet • 2021)

39:00 "Jermain Charlo Missing Two Years on Tuesday" (Seaborn Larson • Missoulian • Jun 2020)

44:00 "Monday's Montanan: Lauren Small Rodriguez Helps Native Trafficking Survivors " (Patrick Reilly • Missoulian • Feb 2020)

 

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Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer for The New Yorker.“I think the job is just paying a bunch of attention. If you're a person like me, where thoughts and worries are intruding on your consciousness all the time, it is a great relief to have something to just over-describe and over-pay-attention to—and kind of just give all of your latent, usually anxious attention to this one thing. That, to me, is a great joy.”

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Show notes:

@vcunningham

vinson.nyc

Cunningham on Longform

Cunningham's New Yorker archive

04:00 "’The Suit’ at BAM" (Brooklyn Paper • Jan 2013)

04:00 "Label Maker: Edward Buchanan" (Nylon Guys • Mar 2015)

09:00 circlejerk.live

11:00 Jeremy O. Harris’ plays

11:00 "How Are Audiences Adapting to the Age of Virtual Theatre?" (New Yorker • Oct 2020)

18:00 "The Season of Russell Westbrook and a New Era in N.B.A. Fandom" (New Yorker • Apr 2017)

25:00 Cunningham's McSweeney’s archive

25:00 "The Flies in Kehinde Wiley’s Milk" (The Awl • Jun 2015)

25:00 "Can Black Art Ever Escape the Politics of Race?" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2015)

25:00 "How Chris Jackson is Building a Black Literary Movement" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2016)

27:00 "Stephon Marbury Has His Own Story to Tell" (New Yorker • Apr 2020)

28:00 "The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers" (New Yorker • Jan 2018)

29:00 WTF with Marc Maron

32:00 "Tracy Morgan Turns the Drama of His Life into Comedy" (New Yorker • May 2019)

36:00 Redd Foxx party albums

38:00 Alexandra Schwartz’ New Yorker archive

41:00 Simon Parkin on Longform

41:00 Adrian Chen on Longform

42:00 "The Many Lives of Steven Yeun" (Jay Caspian Kang • New York Times Magazine • Feb 2021)

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Katie Engelhart is a journalist and the author of the new book The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die.“Billions of dollars of government money goes to the nursing home industry every year. And nobody has a nursing home correspondent. Nobody has an assisted living correspondent…. That's wild to me. As a journalist, someone tells me, Oh, there's an industry. It's hugely underregulated. It's getting billions of dollars a year. It is not super-accountable for that money. Who wouldn't want to cover that?”

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Show notes:

@katieenglehart

katieengelhart.com

Engelhart on Longform

00:00 The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die (St. Martin’s Press • 2021)

00:00 "What Happened in Room 10?" (California Sunday • Aug 2020)

02:00 "Her Time" (California Sunday • Mar 2019)

03:00 "Time to Die" (Vice)

18:00 "Adam Maier-Clayton's controversial right-to-die campaign" (Stuart Hughes • BBC News • Jul 2017)

34:00 Engehart's Maclean’s archive

35:00 "Papal Chatter in Vatican City" (Maclean’s • Feb 2013)

35:00 "Why the Higgs Boson Discovery Changed Everything" (Kate Lunau and Katie Engelhart • Maclean’s • Jul 2012)

35:00 "Behind the Lines in Ukraine" (Maclean’s • Jan 2014)

35:00 "Royal Baby Dispatches: 'It's a Prince!'" (Maclean’s • Jul 2013)

37:00 Engelhart's Vice archive

39:00 "How France Has Changed One Year After The Paris Terrorist Attack" (Vice • Nov 2016)

39:00 "Lithuania Thinks the Russians Are Coming — and It's Preparing with Wargames" (Vice • May 2015)

39:00 "Why Record Numbers of Ukrainian Jews Are Fleeing to Israel" (Vice • Mar 2016)

39:00 Left Field (NBC)

44:00 "The Coronavirus’s Rampage Through a Suburban Nursing Home " (Jack Healy and Serge F. Kovaleski • New York Times • May 2020)

 

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