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Episode Synopsis
David Kushner, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired and The Atavist.
"The minute you see an incredible character, you know. The only thing I can compare it to is bowling, not that I'm much of a bowler. On the few times I've thrown a strike, you know it before it hits the pins."
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Show notes:
@davidkushner
davidkushner.com
Kushner on Longform
[1:00] "The Bones of Marianna" (The Atavist • Dec 2013)
[8:15] "The Hacker is Watching" (GQ • Jan 2012)
[8:45] Masters of Doom (Random House • 2003)
[8:45] Jacked (Wiley • 2012)
[28:45] "Prepare to Meet Thy Doom" (Wired • May 2003)
[30:45] "Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse" (Rolling Stone • Dec 2007)
[31:00] "Time Tunnels Meet Warped Passages" (IEEE Spectrum • Apr 2006)
[37:45] "The WikiLeaks Mole" (Rolling Stone • Jan 2014)
[41:45] Levittown (Walker & Company • 2009)
[43:30] "I Was a Teenage Freak" (Rolling Stone • Sep 2003)
[48:00] "Anonymous vs. Steubenville" (Rolling Stone • Nov 2013)
[49:45] "Dead End on Silk Road" (Rolling Stone • Feb 2014)
[51:45] "Anonymous vs. Scientology" (Maxim • Jul 2008)
[54:15] "Sponge-Fraud!" (Vanity Fair • Jun 2012)
[57:15] Longform Podcast #64: Gay Talese
[1:00:16] "Machine Politics" (New Yorker • May 2012)
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"The minute you see an incredible character, you know. The only thing I can compare it to is bowling, not that I'm much of a bowler. On the few times I've thrown a strike, you know it before it hits the pins."
Thanks to TinyLetter and ProFlowers for sponsoring this week's episode.
Show notes:
@davidkushner
davidkushner.com
Kushner on Longform
[1:00] "The Bones of Marianna" (The Atavist • Dec 2013)
[8:15] "The Hacker is Watching" (GQ • Jan 2012)
[8:45] Masters of Doom (Random House • 2003)
[8:45] Jacked (Wiley • 2012)
[28:45] "Prepare to Meet Thy Doom" (Wired • May 2003)
[30:45] "Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse" (Rolling Stone • Dec 2007)
[31:00] "Time Tunnels Meet Warped Passages" (IEEE Spectrum • Apr 2006)
[37:45] "The WikiLeaks Mole" (Rolling Stone • Jan 2014)
[41:45] Levittown (Walker & Company • 2009)
[43:30] "I Was a Teenage Freak" (Rolling Stone • Sep 2003)
[48:00] "Anonymous vs. Steubenville" (Rolling Stone • Nov 2013)
[49:45] "Dead End on Silk Road" (Rolling Stone • Feb 2014)
[51:45] "Anonymous vs. Scientology" (Maxim • Jul 2008)
[54:15] "Sponge-Fraud!" (Vanity Fair • Jun 2012)
[57:15] Longform Podcast #64: Gay Talese
[1:00:16] "Machine Politics" (New Yorker • May 2012)
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