Jonah Weiner is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and co-author of the newsletter Blackbird Spyplane.

“It's a version of myself. It's a hyperbolic version of myself. And I think it keeps it fun for me. It doesn't feel like a job. Ideally, it keeps it fun for readers. And I think that there actually is this function where X out of 10 people coming to it, their eyes are going to cross and they're going say, I'm out. No thanks. And that's fine, because the Y out of 10 who stick around feel that much more in on something and it just makes it feel like a funky, special place.”

Show notes:

• @jonahweiner
• jonahweiner.com
• Weiner on Longform
• 00:00 Weiner on Longform Podcast
• 01:00 "Prying Eyes" (New Yorker • Oct 2012)
• 01:00 Blackbird Spyplane (Jonah Weiner and Erin Wylie • Substack)
• 06:00 "Don’t Take This Hunk at Face Value" (New York Times • Mar 2011)
• 11:00 "Michael Mann’s Damaged Men" (New York Times Magazine • Jul 2022)
• 23:00 "Wonders of Tokyo" (Blackbird Spyplane • Nov 2022)
• 23:00 "It’s-a me, Tokyo!" (Blackbird Spyplane • Nov 2022)
• 25:00 "Blackpilled Swag" (Blackbird Spyplane • Jan 2023)
• 31:00 The Warning with Steve Schmidt (Steve Schmidt • Substack)
• 33:00 Weiner's Rolling Stone archive
• 34:00 Racket (Matt Taibbi • Substack)
• 34:00 Glenn Greenwald (Glenn Greenwald • Substack)
• 36:00 "Bob Odenkirk’s Long Road to Serious Success" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2022)
• 36:00 "Seth Rogan and the Secret to Happiness" (New York Times Magazine • Apr 2021)
• 37:00 The “Blackbird Spyplane” Interview Archive

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