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Episode 119: Alec Wilkinson
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Nov 26, 2014
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Podcast episode
Description
Alec Wilkinson is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
“My hero was Joseph Mitchell, that was how you did reporting. There was nothing conniving about it or cunning — you just simply kept returning and kept returning.”
Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode.
Show Notes:
Wilkinson on Longform
[2:00] "The Protest Singer" (New Yorker • Apr 2006)
[6:00] Midnights: A Year With the Welfleet Police (Random House • 1982)
[9:00] My Mentor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2002)
[9:00] Across the River and into the Trees (Ernest Hemingway • 1950)
[24:00] Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor (Knopf • 1985)
[25:00] Big Sugar (Knopf • 1989)
[27:00] The Happiest Man in the World (Random House • 2007)
[34:00] "New York Is Killing Me" (New Yorker • Aug 2010)
[42:00] "Sam and Other Reflections on Being a Father" (Esquire • Jun 2000)
[47:00] The Ice Balloon (Knopf • 2012)
“My hero was Joseph Mitchell, that was how you did reporting. There was nothing conniving about it or cunning — you just simply kept returning and kept returning.”
Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode.
Show Notes:
Wilkinson on Longform
[2:00] "The Protest Singer" (New Yorker • Apr 2006)
[6:00] Midnights: A Year With the Welfleet Police (Random House • 1982)
[9:00] My Mentor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2002)
[9:00] Across the River and into the Trees (Ernest Hemingway • 1950)
[24:00] Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor (Knopf • 1985)
[25:00] Big Sugar (Knopf • 1989)
[27:00] The Happiest Man in the World (Random House • 2007)
[34:00] "New York Is Killing Me" (New Yorker • Aug 2010)
[42:00] "Sam and Other Reflections on Being a Father" (Esquire • Jun 2000)
[47:00] The Ice Balloon (Knopf • 2012)
Released:
Nov 26, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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