I felt like i was on a roller coast to night, i didn't know what would happen next. Have you heard from him? No, nothing, no. But that's normal. I mean, i often don't hear from people. I profile, what do you think he would think? I wouldn't venture to guess. You just have no way of predicting what the subject will think. And also, the weird thing about being at the centre of some viral thing is that it feels like there's a lot happening. But then i would look around and i would just be at home with my cat, looking at my phone. Ke, if an alien saw me, they would have
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.”
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