Episode 554: Yepoka Yeebo
Longform18 Loka 2023

Episode 554: Yepoka Yeebo

Yepoka Yeebo has written for The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Quartz. Her new book is Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World. “Initially it was like, Why are you writing about a con man? He makes Ghana look bad. Nobody needs another crime story about an African person. I found that irritating, because isn't the whole point of being a complete person, complete people, is we contain multitudes? We too can be epic, world-leading con men! Also, it's a great story. Everybody should revel in the insanity of what happened.” Show notes: @yepoka yepokayeebo.com Yeebo on Longform Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World 16:00 “The True Story of the Fake U.S. Embassy in Ghana” (The Guardian • Nov 2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Episode 534: Tracy Kidder

Episode 534: Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder is the author of eleven books, including The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains. His latest is Rough Sleepers. “I do think it’s an interesting challenge to try to write ...

17 Touko 202338min

Episode 533: Hua Hsu

Episode 533: Hua Hsu

Hua Hsu is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His book Stay True won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for memoir. “I've worked as a journalist … for quite a while. … But this [book] was the thing that was alwa...

10 Touko 202345min

Episode 532: Kevin Kelly

Episode 532: Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly is one of the founding editors of Wired, where his current title is Senior Maverick. His new book is Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I'd Known Earlier. “I never wrote a book because I ...

3 Touko 202347min

Polk Award Winners: Terrence McCoy

Polk Award Winners: Terrence McCoy

Terrence McCoy is The Washington Post's Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief. He won the George Polk award for his series "The Amazon, Undone" on the illegal and often violent exploitation of the rainforest. “...

28 Huhti 202334min

Polk Award Winners: Lynsey Addario

Polk Award Winners: Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist for The New York Times and National Geographic. She won the George Polk award for her photograph of the bodies of a woman and her two children alongside a friend wh...

27 Huhti 202338min

Polk Award Winners: Tracy Wang and Nick Baker

Polk Award Winners: Tracy Wang and Nick Baker

Tracy Wang and Nick Baker of CoinDesk, along with their colleague Ian Allison, won the George Polk award for reporting that led to the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. “C...

26 Huhti 202317min

Polk Award Winners: Lori Hinnant

Polk Award Winners: Lori Hinnant

Lori Hinnant is a reporter for the Associated Press. Along with videojournalist Mstyslav Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, and video producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, she won the George Polk Award ...

25 Huhti 202319min

Polk Award Winners: Theo Baker

Polk Award Winners: Theo Baker

Theo Baker is the investigations editor at The Stanford Daily. The first college student ever to win a George Polk Award, Baker received a special recognition for uncovering allegations that pioneerin...

24 Huhti 202335min

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