Episode 523: Willa Paskin
Willa Paskin, a former TV critic, is the host of the podcast Decoder Ring. “I want it to feel like a trap door. When you push on a trap door, there’s like a little spring. If it’s the right idea, you ...
22 Feb 202356min
Episode 522: Abraham Josephine Riesman
Abraham Josephine Riesman is a journalist who writes often for New York and is the author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. Her second book, Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking o...
15 Feb 20231h 4min
Episode 521: Jonah Weiner
Jonah Weiner is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and co-author of the newsletter Blackbird Spyplane. “It's a version of myself. It's a hyperbolic version of myself. And I think it...
8 Feb 202342min
Episode 520: Delia Cai
Delia Cai is the senior vanities correspondent for Vanity Fair and publishes the media newsletter Deez Links. Her debut novel Central Places is out this week. “This was in like, 2011, where I think ac...
1 Feb 202353min
Episode 519: Peggy Orenstein
Peggy Orenstein is a journalist and author. Her latest book is Unraveling. “The challenge is… to not want to say, I need to know what the book is about. I need to have my chapters. I need to know what...
25 Jan 20231h
Episode 518: Jonathan Goldstein
Jonathan Goldstein is an audio producer and the host of Heavyweight. “I wasn’t taking myself very seriously, initially. I liked working with my friends and family because I think I was a little more c...
18 Jan 20231h 1min
Episode 517: Katy Vine
Katy Vine is an executive editor for Texas Monthly. “This is a huge state. There’s so much, and it’s different everywhere you look. You just go to Houston and there’s worlds within worlds within world...
11 Jan 202343min
Rerun: #473 Khabat Abbas (Jan 2022)
Khabat Abbas is an independent journalist and video producer from northeastern Syria, and the winner of the 2021 Kurt Schork News Fixer Award. ”I can see from my experience that there is a gap between...
4 Jan 20231h 9min
