Episode 496: Michael Pollan
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Can You Believe the Ship?
In the book, that comes right after this piece on opium that you wrote for harper's. The kafin writing is interesting. It just feels so much more like conversation to me. I was writing the opium piece with lawyers breathing down my neck and the d e a possibly taking an interest in what i was doing. And those pieces, one is kind of a romp, and the other is all about fear and loathing and the drug work.
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