The 10 Best Longform Podcast Episodes
1) Episode 386: Ed Yong
Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing s...Show More
2) Episode 231: Brooke Gladstone
Brooke Gladstone is the host of On the Media. “I’ve learned so much about how easy it is to redefine reality in this era of billions of filter bubbles. How easy it is to cast doubt on what is undeni...Show More
3) Episode 337: Casey Newton
Casey Newton covers technology for The Verge and writes The Interface newsletter. “I remember one time a Facebook employee told me when I wrote something critical and I said something like, ‘Yeah, I ...Show More
4) Episode 311: Jerry Saltz, art critic at "New York"
Jerry Saltz is a Pulitzer-winning art critic for New York. “To this day I wake up early and I have to get to my desk to write almost immediately. I mean fast. Before the demons get me. I got to get ...Show More
5) Episode 270: Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is an economist, the co-founder of Marginal Revolution, and the host of Conversations with Tyler. His latest book is The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream. ...Show More
6) Episode 355: Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz just announced she is leaving her job covering internet culture for The Atlantic to join The New York Times. “With technology and internet culture, I am more of an optimist than a lot o...Show More
7) Episode 335: Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon is the author of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and Heavy: An American Memoir. “It's ironic to me that my mom was the woman who taught me how to read—she was the black...Show More
8) Episode 7: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor at The Atlantic and author of The Beatiful Struggle, interviewed by Evan Ratliff. Show notes: Coates on Longform Coates's blog for The Atlantic "Fear of a Black Presid...Show More
9) Rerun: #412 Nicholson Baker (Sep 2020)
Nicholson Baker is the author of 18 books of fiction and nonfiction. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, and many other publications. His latest book is Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the...Show More
10) Episode 460: Mary Roach
Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including her latest, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law. "In these realms of the taboo, there's a tremendous amount of material that is really inter...Show More