Reporting Trips - Is That Important to You?

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I think this is a little bit of the old kind of photographer's instinct too I mean I really did love learning how to be a photographer. When you're in that cheap motel and you're like okay I got X number of days here and then I gotta like go back to my other life and maybe I'm like writing two other pieces whatever so you got like a finite bookmarked beginning and endHow do you fill your days? You decide these are the things these are the strands I'm going to try to do these things to provoke some kind of an experience I can write about well I should say my wife makes a lot of fun of me when I go out on reporting trips because I

Evan Osnos is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury.

“I'm always trying to get inside a subculture. That's the thing that I think has been the most enduring, attractive element for me. Is there a world that has its own manners and vocabulary and internal rhythms and status structure? And who looks down on whom? And why? And who venerates whom? Who's a big deal in these worlds? And if I can get into that, it doesn't even really matter to me that much what the subculture is. I'm fascinated by trying to map that thing out.”

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