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Anne Helen Petersen writes for BuzzFeed. Her book Scandals of Classic Hollywood is out this week. "I was obsessed with Entertainment Weekly from the very first issue and I obsessively catalogued it. I made a database on my Apple IIe where I put in the title of the magazine and the number and whether it was a little 'e' or a big 'E' on the cover and the different topics and then I gave it a grade. You know how in Entertainment Weekly they give everything a grade, so I’d be like 'Oscar’s Issue: A minus.' But I learned how to obsessively track Hollywood industry even though I grew up in a very small town in northern Idaho." Thanks to TinyLetter, Bonobos, and EA SPORTS FIFA 15 for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @annehelen annehelenpetersen.com Petersen on Longform [1:00] "The Down and Dirty History of TMZ" (BuzzFeed • Jul 2014) [1:00] Scandals of Classic Hollywood (Plume • Sep 2014) [3:00] EA SPORTS FIFA 15 Readers' Poll Results [5:00] "The Gossip Industry" (Petersen's Dissertation • 2011) [pdf] [5:00] "Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style" [6:00] "The Trials of Entertainment Weekly" (The Awl • Jun 2014 ) [14:00] Longform Podcast #50: Edith Zimmerman [28:00] Lainey Gossip [32:00] "Jennifer Lawrence and the History of Cool Girls" (BuzzFeed • Feb 2014) [37:00] "Talking to Anne Helen Petersen About Leaving Academia for BuzzFeed" (The Hairpin • Mar 2014) [43:00] "Angelina Jolie’s Perfect Game" (BuzzFeed • May 2014) [45:00] "Confidentially Yours" (The Believer • May 2014) [50:00] "At Least One Real, Authentic Moment of Humanity With Cameron Diaz" (Alex Pappademas • Grantland • Jul 2014) [53:00] "How I Rebuilt Tinder and Discovered the Shameful Secret of Attraction" (BuzzFeed • Sep 2014) [100:00] "Take Time" (John Herrman • The Awl • Jun 2014 ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Hayes hosts All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC and is an editor-at-large for The Nation. "The instability was so intense and the anguish and frustration were so intense that there wasn’t a ton of time to think through, 'Well, what is my role in this?' Mostly it was: wake up in the morning after two or three hours of sleep and start going to stuff, talking to people, and keep doing that until the show happens." Thanks to GoDaddy for sponsoring this week's episode. Apply for the TinyLetter Writers Residency by September 26. And nominate your favorite soccer article for a chance to win a free Xbox One and EA SPORTS FIFA 15. Show Notes: @chrislhayes [1:55] Evan on The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC • Apr 2014) [7:30] "Al-Jazeera runs from teargas in Ferguson" (YouTube) [10:30] "St Louis police officer shoots Kajieme Powell [Graphic]" (YouTube) [26:00] Hayes's archive in The Chicago Reader [28:00] "Trapped" (The Chicago Reader • Dec 2002) [34:00] Hayes's archive in The Nation [39:30] "The NAFTA Superhighway" (The Nation • Aug 2007) [40:30] Hayes's first appearance on TV (C-SPAN • Sep 2007) [47:30] "Chris Hayes On 'Heroes' Controversy: 'I Fell Short At A Crucial Moment'" (Jack Mirkinson • The Huffington Post • May 2012) [59:00] Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (Crown • 2012) [100:30] "The Real Story Behind Chicago’s Crime Numbers" (MSNBC • Jun 2014) [100:30] "A Town's Only Hospital Closes" (MSNBC • Jul 2014) [100:30] "The (Too) Slow March of Desegregation" (MSNBC • Jun 2014) [101:00] "Years of Living Dangerously" (Showtime) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Buzz Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has written for Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, GQ and more. He is the author of several books, including Friday Night Lights. "It’s quiet. And I really felt I needed that quiet. People say, 'Well anger was your edge, and agitation was your edge, and that’s going to hurt your writing.' I don’t know, maybe. It may be that in order to live a happier life you become a shittier writer. I don't know. But I just couldn't live in that fashion anymore, I just couldn't. It would've destroyed my marriage. It was destroying me." Thanks to this week's sponsors. The Longform App is now available. Apply for the TinyLetter Writers Residency by September 26. And nominate your favorite soccer article for a chance to win a free Xbox One and EA SPORTS FIFA 15. Show Notes: buzzbissinger.com Bissinger on Longform [7:00] Friday Night Lights (Da Capo Press • 1990) [7:30] "Pursuit Of A Big Blue Chipper" (Sports Illustrated • Sep 1968) [12:00] "Disorder in the Court" series (The Philadelphia Inquirer • with Daniel R. Biddle and Fredric N. Tulsky • 1987) [unavailable online] [17:45] Father’s Day (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2012) [18:00] Three Nights in August (Mariner • 2005) [20:30] A Prayer for the City (Vintage • 1998) [28:30] Shooting Stars (Penguin • 2009) [31:30] "Who Is Nick Foles?" (Philadelphia Magazine • Jun 2014) [39:00] "The Plane That Fell From the Sky" (St. Paul Pioneer Press • Apr 1979) [pdf] [44:00] "My Gucci Addiction" (GQ • Apr 2013) [1:01:00] "Darkness in August" (Vanity Fair • Feb 2014) [1:02:00] Wherever I Wind Up (R.A. Dickey • Blue Rider Press • 2012) [1:20:00] "Shattered Glass" (Vanity Fair • Sep 1998) [1:20:00] "The Runaway Doctor" (Vanity Fair • Jan 2011) [1:20:30] After Friday Night Lights (Byliner • 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean Wilsey has written for The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The New York Times, and McSweeney’s Quarterly, where he is an editor-at-large. His latest book is More Curious. "I’m actually apparently a fairly competent person at getting things done, making deadlines and all these things. But the Wilsey you might get in the piece about NASA is the guy who eats a ton of oysters and drinks a lot of beer before getting on the vomit comet." Thanks to TinyLetter and GoDaddy for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @seanwilsey [1:20] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and the author of Sticks and Stones. "There’s nothing purely, or maybe even at all, altruistic about this exchange. It’s transactional in the Janet Malcolm classical sense, but also in the emotional sense. There is a way in which I’m super open. I take in these experiences. They keep me up at night. They really get inside me. But then, I'm also using them to craft whatever I’m working on." Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @emilybazelon emilybazelon.com Bazelon on Longform [17:30] "What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?" (Slate • July 2010) [25:45] Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy (2013 • Random House) [27:15] "The Price of a Stolen Childhood" (New York Times Magazine • Jan 2013) [37:45] Double X [41:00] Political Gabfest [45:00] Bazelon on Colbert Report (Mar 2012) [46:00] Bazelon’s television appearances [47:45] "The Dawn of the Post-Clinic Abortion" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2014) [57:30] "A Long Day’s Journey Into Haircut" (Walter Kirn • New York Times • Apr 2003) [58:00] "Review: Redeeming the Dream, on Marriage Equality by David Boies and Theodore Olson" (Washington Post • Jun 2014) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Zach Baron is a staff writer for GQ. "People love to put celebrity stuff or culture stuff lower on the hierarchy than, say, a serial killer story. I think they're all the same story. If you crack the human, you crack the human." Thanks to TinyLetter and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes:   @xzachbaronx Baron's personal site Baron on Longform [7:00] "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye" (GQ • Jul 2014) [17:30] "Steve McQueen: Auteur of the Year 2013" (GQ • Dec 2013) [22:50] "The Secret Double Life of Mister Cee" (GQ • Feb 2014) [39:10] Baron's archive on Grantland [45:00] "Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas" (The Daily • Oct 2011) [45:40] "50 Cent Is My Life Coach" (GQ • Jun 2014) [52:00] "Cliven Bundy's War" (GQ • Jul 2014) [52:20] "Why Are They (Armed) 'Patriots' in Nevada But (Unarmed) Rioters in Ferguson?" (GQ • Aug 2014)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ben Anderson is a war journalist and documentary filmmaker. His latest book, The Interpreters, is available free from Vice. "You're surrounded by people who are so poor. Maybe their family members have already been killed. And they still can't leave. So compared to that, I can't really take the idea that I've suffered and that I need stop and go to a spa for a few days. I can't take that idea that seriously. Compared to them, it feels like I am leading an almost privileged existence." Thanks to TinyLetter and GoDaddy for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @BenJohnAnderson Ben Anderson on Vice [12:00] The Slaves of Dubai (Vice • Apr 2009) [15:30] "My Holidays in the Axis of Evil" (BBC • Feb 2003) [20:43] No Worse Enemy (Oneworld Publications • Oct 2012) [21:15] This is What Winning Looks Like (Vice • May 2013) [23:20] The Battle for Marjah (HBO • Feb 2010) [33:16] Vice on HBO [40:00] James Wood's New Yorker archive [42:40] Afghan Interpreters (Vice • Jul 2014) [42:40] The Interpreters (Vice • Aug 2014) [43:00] King Leopold's Ghost (Adam Hochschild • 1998) [54:30] Longform Podcast #1: Matthieu Aikins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lewis Lapham, formerly the editor of Harper's, is the founder of Lapham's Quarterly. "The best part of my job was to come across a manuscript. You never knew what would show up. ... I always had the sense of opening a present, hoping to be both delighted and surprised. Often I was disappointed. But when I wasn't, it was a lot of fun. And word got around that I was that kind of an editor, that I was willing to try anything if you could make it interesting." Thanks to TinyLetter and GoDaddy for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: Lapham's Quarterly Lapham on Longform [2:30] With the Beatles (Melville House • Oct 2005) [17:00] "Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?" (The Saturday Evening Post • Sep 1965) [unavailable online] [21:00] "Monk: High Priest of Jazz" (The Saturday Evening Post • Apr 1964) [unavailable online] [29:00] "Alaksa: Politicians and Natives, Money and Oil" (Harper's • May 1970) [paywall] [31:00] "The Coming Wounds of Wall Street" (Harper's • May 1971) [paywall] [43:30] "Harper's Lapham: Good-bye, Long Tale" (Christopher Swan • The Christian Science Monitor • July 1985) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adam Higginbotham has written for Businessweek, Wired and The New Yorker. His latest story is A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite, for The Atavist. "There's always a narrative in a crime story. Something has always gone wrong. These guys are always in prison, because they all fucked something up or trusted the wrong person. They always get caught in the end. Because if they hadn't, you wouldn't be reading about it." Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @HigginbothamA adamhigginbotham.com Higginbotham on Longform [2:13] A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite (The Atavist • Jul 2014) [26:16] The Face [28:14] Richard Branson Turns 50 (Independent on Sunday Review • Jul 2000) [32:51] The Inkjet Counterfeiter (Wired (UK) • Oct 2009) [40:48] The Gangster Prince of Liberia (Details • Nov 2007) [41:30] The Last Days of the Lipstick Killer (GQ • May 2008) [41:39] The Green River Killer (Sunday Telegraph • May 2004) [pdf] [46:18] Life at the Top (The New Yorker • Feb 2013) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brin-Jonathan Butler has written for SB Nation, ESPN, and The New York Times. His new book is A Cuban Boxer’s Journey. "He smiled at me and just to make small talk, I said, 'You know, you’ve got this gold grill on your teeth. Where did you get that from?' And he said, 'Oh, I just melted my gold medals into my mouth.' And I thought, 'I think I’ve got a story here.'" Thanks to TinyLetter, WW Norton & Company and Open Road Integrated Media for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @brincio [4:45] Pitching Around Fidel (S.L. Price • 1998) [7:45] Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway • 1952) [12:00] "Mike Tyson Jail Interview" (YouTube) [19:30] Granma [29:30] "Héroes for Sale" (SB Nation • June 2014) [35:45] Split Decision: The Story of Guillermo Rigondeaux (Documentary directed by Butler) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices