Chapters 
 Transcript 
 Episode notes 
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 Introduction 
 00:00 • 3min 
 Deborah Friedel's Nightmare 
 02:34 • 2min 
 The Culture of Narcissism 
 04:17 • 2min 
 The City in the Mist 
 06:42 • 4min 
 The Power of No History 
 10:38 • 3min 
 The Role of Television in the History of Television 
 13:50 • 5min 
 The Death of the Attention Economy 
 18:55 • 5min 
 Tro's Vision for a Better American Culture 
 24:13 • 2min 
 The Importance of Agreements in the Age of Television 
 26:35 • 4min 
 The New Yorker's Most Extreme Nonfiction 
 30:56 • 2min 
 The Importance of Gen X Writing in the New Yorker 
 32:55 • 4min 
 The Fragmented Sections of the Atlantic City Essay 
 36:36 • 3min 
 The Power of Writing 
 39:33 • 2min 
 The Power of the Word Like 
 41:15 • 2min 
 The Relationship Between Tro's No Context and the 2019 Harper's Piece 
 42:53 • 5min 
 How to Write an Aphoristic Piece 
 47:57 • 1min 
 The Decline of the Book Review 
 49:10 • 6min 
 The Power of the Book Review 
 54:40 • 5min 


