How Did It All Start?

Michael Schulman is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He recently profiled Jeremy Strong of Succession.

”There's an interesting moment that's part of this job where you’ve spent a lot of time with someone and it often feels very personal and very intimate. And then when you go to write the piece, you have to sort of take a breath and say to yourself, Okay, I'm not writing this for this person. I'm writing this for the reader.”

Show notes:

• @MJSchulman
• michael-schulman.com
• Schulman on Longform
• Schulman's New Yorker archive
• 01:00 "On ‘Succession,’ Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke" (New Yorker • Dec 2021)
• 03:00 Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep (Harper • 2016)
• 09:00 "Wendy Williams Dishes the Dirt" (New Yorker • May 2021)
• 35:00 "Adam Driver, the Original Man" (New Yorker • Oct 2019)
• 37:00 "A Defense of Jeremy Strong (and All the Strivers With No Chill)" (Elizabeth Spiers • New York Times • Jan 2022)
• 44:00 "Bridget Everett is Larger than Life" (New Yorker • Jan 2022)
• 45:00 "The Otherworldly Comedy of Julio Torres" (New Yorker • Dec 2020)
• 47:00 "Bo Burnham’s Age of Anxiety" (New Yorker • Jun 2018)
• 47:00 "Troye Sivan’s Coming of Age" (New Yorker • Jun 2019)

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