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Interviews with writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters about how they do their work. Hosted by Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff.
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Barrett Swanson is a contributing editor at Harper’sand the author ofLost in Summerland. “You just have to sit there for a long time. That lesson was indisputably crucial for me. Just being willing to talk to someone, even if the…
Dan Rather is a journalist, author, and the former anchor ofCBS Evening News. ”I knew that being named to succeed Walter Cronkite would put me in a position of inhaling—every day—a kind of NASA-grade rocket fuel for the ego. And…
Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist and contributor toVanity Fair. Her latest article is”The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins.” ”You can't make a correction unless you know why something happened. So imagine—if this is a lab…
We've got something a little different today from our sponsor Apple News+, a sneak peek of a new article by Joshuah Bearman and Rich Schapiro called "Last Chance Hotel." It's a wild story full of misadventure, get-rich-quick schemes gone wrong,…
Rose Eveleth is the host ofFlash Forwardand the author ofFlash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows. “If I didn’t have that pretty bizarrely insatiable drive to do this stuff and understand things, I don’t know…
Theo Padnos is a journalist and author of the bookBlindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment. “I'm trying to tell a story about a person who's attracted to dangerous places and people. I think we all have that within…
Donovan X. Ramsey is a staff writer for theLos Angeles Times.His work has appeared inGQ,WSJ Magazine,The Atlantic, and many other publications. “I actually got into writing about criminal justice ... because I was curious about Black life. But that meant…
Adam McKay is a film director, writer, and host of the podcastDeath at the Wing. “Sometimes you do a project and then you look back and you’re like,Ah, shit. I let some of myself get in the way of that.It…
Anna Sale is the host ofDeath, Sex & Money. Her new book isLet’s Talk About Hard Things. “What hard conversations can do is—you can witness what's hard. You can be with what's hard. Admit what's hard. That can be its…
Brooke Jarvis is a contributing writer forThe New York Times Magazine. “Obsession is inherently interesting. We want to know why somebody would care so much about something that it could direct their whole life. ... When people care about something…