i'm interested in how you, how you found the case that was big enough to sustain the narrative. For this new york times magazine piece, i didn't really hang it on a case, but instead, i hung that storyon my pursuit of trying to meet with a scammer and interview him. So that was the narrative, and jim browning was one of the characters in the story. But while i was working on that piece, i had already heard about this massive case that had happened in the us. That had become public first in two thousand 16.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a contributing writer for National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. His new podcast is Chameleon: Scam Likely.
“I want a crumpled piece of paper where there are enough ridges and valleys and lines for me to be able to navigate, and they have to be authentic. And then of course the best stories among them will have surprise and intrigue, and things that are completely unexpected happen somewhere along the way. But it's hard to anticipate all of that. You still have to have a little bit of faith.”
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