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5(ish) Questions: Abbie Gascho Landis and the surprising climate book "Immersion"

5(ish) Questions: Abbie Gascho Landis and the surprising climate book “Immersion”

The writer (and vet) talks about squeezing story from science, and how a book about mussels is also about our tender, tenacious humanity.
September 14, 2017
Monica Hesse and "American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land”

Monica Hesse and “American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land”

The Washington Post reporter talks about what it's like to juggle multiple projects (and genres), and the virtue of capturing the way people talk
August 31, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Maud Newton and her science-meets-personal-essay "I, Rodent"

5(ish) Questions: Maud Newton and her science-meets-personal-essay “I, Rodent”

The writer talks about her touching piece in The Awl, in which she intersperses disturbing facts about genetic engineering with her lifelong identification with mice
August 10, 2017
On identity: men who created it, women who lost it, a writer who escaped it

On identity: men who created it, women who lost it, a writer who escaped it

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure
July 21, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Steve Oney and "A Man's World" (both the song and his new book)

5(ish) Questions: Steve Oney and “A Man’s World” (both the song and his new book)

The writer talks about how ideas about masculinity have changed over his 40-year career, and how he eerily predicted the rise of Breitbart America
July 18, 2017
Thomas Curwen and "Surgeon races to save a life during L.A.'s shooting season"

Thomas Curwen and “Surgeon races to save a life during L.A.’s shooting season”

The Los Angeles Times writer, who watched a doctor operate on a teen gunshot victim, talks about his enduring passion for stories that depict “the split-second events that change the…
June 27, 2017
Notable Narrative: Jason Fagone and “What Bullets Do to Bodies”

Notable Narrative: Jason Fagone and “What Bullets Do to Bodies”

The writer talks about his Huffington Post Highline profile of a trauma surgeon, and wanting readers to get a “visceral sense of what physically happens inside a person when he’s…
June 26, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Latino USA producer Marlon Bishop on the backstory of the NPR show’s most downloaded episode ever

5(ish) Questions: Latino USA producer Marlon Bishop on the backstory of the NPR show’s most downloaded episode ever

A show that was more than a year in the making about the controversial prisoner Oscar López Rivera scored journalism gold, coming out just days after the Puerto Rican was…
March 2, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Christopher Solomon and "The Detective of Northern Oddities"

Annotation Tuesday! Christopher Solomon and “The Detective of Northern Oddities”

For his piece in Outside magazine, the writer talks about the trickiness of reporting on climate change and the importance of pacing: "readers can feel when the story loses its…
February 28, 2017
Guy Larson and "Merv Curls Lead" — it's kind of like "The Office" on ice

Guy Larson and “Merv Curls Lead” — it’s kind of like “The Office” on ice

In his 1999 piece on a would-be impresario of the quirky sport of curling, the Canadian writer creates a David Brent-like character: at times an insufferable blusterer, at others an…
February 23, 2017