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Molly Young, freelance writer for GQ and New York. Show notes: @rolfpotts rolfpotts.com [2:00] Murder of football player in Kansas shakes town (Sports Illustrated • Feb 2013) [15:00] Salon travel column (1999-2000) [16:30] "Storming the Beach" (Salon • Jan 1999) [19:30] "Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel" (2002) [21:00] "My Beirut Hostage Crisis" (Salon • June 2000) [25:00] Wikipedia: Flaneur [35:30] 'No Baggage' web series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rolf Potts, travel writer. Show notes: @rolfpotts rolfpotts.com [2:00] Murder of football player in Kansas shakes town (Sports Illustrated • Feb 2013) [15:00] Salon travel column (1999-2000) [16:30] "Storming the Beach" (Salon • Jan 1999) [19:30] "Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel" (2002) [21:00] "My Beirut Hostage Crisis" (Salon • June 2000) [25:00] Wikipedia: Flaneur [35:30] 'No Baggage' web series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jake Silverstein, editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly. Show notes: @jakesilverstein Silverstein's Texas Monthly archive [5:00] Welcome to the New National Homepage of Texas (Texas Monthly • Jan 2013) [14:00] "The Innocent Man, Part 1" (Pamela Colloff • Texas Monthly • Nov 2012) [14:30] Colloff's ongoing coverage of the Michael Morton case [19:30] "Walking the Border" (Luke Dittrich • Esquire • April 2011) [20:00] Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle of Fact and Fiction [27:00] "The Devil and Ambrose Bierce" (Harper's • Feb 2002) (sub req) [28:30] "The Small Boys' Unit: Searching for Charles Taylor in a Liberian civil war" (Denis Johnson • Harper's • Oct 2000) (sub req) [30:30] "What Is Poetry? And Does It Pay?" (Harper's • August 2002) [42:00] "Still Life" (Skip Hollandsworth • Texas Monthly • May 2009) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emily Nussbaum, television critic at The New Yorker. Show notes: @emilynussbaum emilynussbaum.com Nussbaum's New Yorker archive Nussbaum's New York archive [1:30] Tina Fey at the Paley Center for Media [5:45] "Shark Week: House of Cards, Scandal, and the political game" (The New Yorker • Feb 2013) [8:00] "My Strange Addiction: The sleazy wisdom of Big Brother" (The New Yorker • Aug 2012) [8:40] "My Breaking Bad Bender" (New York • July 2011) [8:40] "Child's Play: Breaking Bad's Bad Dad" (The New Yorker • Aug 2012) [11:15] "Reconsidering Two and a Half Men" (New York • Nov 2010) [14:00] "Primary Colors: Shonda Rhimes's Scandal and the diversity debate" (The New Yorker • May 2012) [16:00] "It's Different for Girls" (New York • March 2012) [17:30] "Girls Is Brilliant Gem For HBO" (Tim Goodman • The Hollywood Reporter • March 2012) [20:25] "One-Man Show: Louis C.K.'s unique experiment in television making" (New York • May 2011) [20:25] "Black and Blue: The bruised hilarity of Louie and Episodes" (The New Yorker • July 2012) [24:50] Clive Thompson [25:40] "The Hummingbird Theory'" (The New Yorker • March 2013) [30:20] Lingua Franca archive [32:40] "Analyze This Guy; review of Ronald Hayman's A Life of Jung" (New York Times Book Review • April 2001) [32:40] "Defending Dr. B.: On Theron Raines's Rising to The Light" (New York Times Book Review • Nov 2002) [36:20] "Confessions of a Spoiler Whore" (Slate • April 2002) [38:40] Television Without Pity [39:40] Approval Matrix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Keith Gessen, founding editor of n+1 and contributor to The New Yorker. Show notes: Gessen's Personal Archive Gessen's n+1 archive Gessen's New Yorker archive [5:15] Money (n+1 • Mar 2006) [6:15] Ugly Duckling Presse [13:15] "Stuck" (New Yorker • Aug 2010) [sub req'd] [20:30] n+1 Digital Issue 1: Negation [22:30] McSweeny's [34:00] "The Intellectual Situation" (n+1 • Nov 2012) [35:00] Indecision (Benjamin Kunkel • Random House • 2005) [35:15] The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach • Hachette • 2011) [43:00] "Nowheresville" (New Yorker • Apr 2011) [sub req'd] [43:15] "Polar Express" (New Yorker • 2012) [sub req'd] [45:30] All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking Penguin • 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matthew Power, freelance writer and contributing editor at Harper's. Show notes: @matthew_power matthewpower.net Power's Harper's archive Power's complete archive [2:00] "Excuse Us While We Kiss the Sky" (GQ • March 2013) [10:30] "Mississippi Drift" (Harper's • March 2008) [18:00] "Immersion Journalism" [pdf] (Harper's • Dec 2005) [22:30] "The Cherry Tree Garden" [pdf] (Granta • May 2008) [24:00] "Guerrillas in the Mist" (Feed • 2000) [26:15] "Train Hopping in Canada" (Blue • 2000) [32:30] "The Poison Stream" [pdf] (Harper's • August 2004) [32:45] Caravan magazine [34:30] "Slipping Through the Net"[pdf] (Harper's • April 2012) [37:30] John McPhee: The Art of Nonfiction No. 3 (The Paris Review • Summer 2010) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joel Lovell, deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine. Show notes: @lovelljoel Lovell's New York Times archive Lovell's GQ archive Lovell's This American Life archive [2:00] "George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year" (Joel Lovell • New York Times Magazine • 2013) [8:20] "The Semplica-Girl Diaries" (George Saunders • New Yorker • 2012) [12:40] George Saunders on respect [12:55] Twitter response to Lovell's profile of George Saunders [14:50] The first time Lovell read Saunders [19:40] Writer Paul Tough [23:35] Saturday Night magazine [25:00] GQ conversation between Lovell and John Jeremiah Sullivan [27:45] "Upon This Rock" (John Jeremiah Sullivan • GQ • 2004) [34:40] The New York Observer on Lovell's "Men + Money" column for GQ [35:30] Lovell on money advisors (The Washington Post • 2009) [42:30] "The Upside of the Downside" (Joel Lovell • New York • 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief of The Verge. Show notes: @joshuatopolsky joshuatopolsky.com The Verge The Verge on Longform [3:45] "Spacewar" (Stewart Brand • Rolling Stone • 1972) [6:45] The Face magazine) [8:00] jasonsantamaria.com [9:00] "Condo at the End of the World" (Joseph L. Flatley • The Verge • Nov 2011) [9:30] "For Amusement Only: The Life and Death of the American Arcade" (Laura June • The Verge • Jan 2013) [11:00] "Launch Party: A Crowdfunding Revolution Ignites the Next Space Race" (Adrianne Jeffries • The Verge • Jan 2013) [12:30] Vox Media [25:15] The Verge's ethics statement [30:00] The Verge's coverage of CES 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jennifer Gonnerman, contributing editor at New York and contributing writer for Mother Jones. Show notes: JenniferGonnerman.com Gonnerman on Longform [5:00] Wayne Barrett's Village Voice Archive [10:30] "The House Where They Live: Inside the Sex-Offender Cluster of One Long Island Town (New York • Dec 2007) [16:00] "Blood Brothers: How Felix Aponte’s Kidney Transplant to Friend Robert Sanchez Saved Both Their Lives (New York • Nov 2009) [22:00] "Tuesdays With Judy: Battling Mental Illness With a Paintbrush (Village Voice • Dec 2005) [22:45] "The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder" (New York • Nov 2012) [27:30] Excerpt from G. Dep’s Memoir, The Autobiographical Rapping Dude: The Rhyme Book [32:30] "A Beautiful Mind: On Susan Sheehan's Is There No Place on Earth for Me?" (Columbia Journalism Review • Jan 2013) [41:00] Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett (Picador • 2004) [45:00] There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Alex Kotlowitz • Anchor • 1992) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Susan Orlean, staff writer at The New Yorker. Show notes: @susanorlean Orlean on Longform Interview Transcript The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People (Amazon) "Orchid Fever" (New Yorker • 1995) "Meet the Shaggs" (New Yorker • 1995) "Life's Swell" (New Yorker • 1995) "Thinking in the Rain" (New Yorker • 2008) "I Want This Apartment" (New Yorker • 1999) Rin Tin Tin (Published 2012) Animalish (Kindle Single) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices