David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His latest book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.
“I became very haunted by the stories that [nations] don't tell. Nations and empires preserve their powers not only by the stories they tell, but also by the stories they leave out. … Early in my career, if I came across the silences in a story, I might not have highlighted them, because I thought, Well, there's nothing to tell there. And now I try to let the silences speak.”
Show notes:
- @DavidGrann
- davidgrann.com
- Grann on Longform
- Grann on Longform Podcast #3
- Grann on Longform Podcast #241
- Grann on Longform Podcast #329
- Grann's New Yorker archive
- 01:00 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Doubleday • 2023)
- 02:00 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday • 2017)
- 28:00 The White Darkness (Doubleday • 2018)
- 61:00 Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese • Appian Way, Apple Studios • 2023)
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