David Gran is a four-time guest on the Long Form podcast. His new book, The Wager, has already been bought by Martin Scorsese for a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Killers of the Flower Moon is about to come out as a mini-series also. It's coming out as a movie directed byMartin Scorsese starring Leonardo Di Caprio.
David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.
“I became very haunted by the stories that [nations] don't tell. Nations and empires preserve their powers not only by the stories they tell, but also by the stories they leave out. … Early in my career, if I came across the silences in a story, I might not have highlighted them, because I thought, Well, there's nothing to tell there. And now I try to let the silences speak.”
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