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Episode 472: Michael Schulman

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The New Yorker Profile

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I feel like this is like your definitive jeremy strong exit interview. Is there anything else this experience that you feel like people should know? I mean, just to day, i slet oup my next profile with a huge t v star. If you're someone who writes any sort of journalism, but especially celebrity journalism, i feel like it's better to follow your instincts than to follow the pressures that are on you to write a certain kind of thing. The question is whether there is enough in it for the subjects to allow a complex piece to be written, i hope.

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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@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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