837. - Alexis Okeowo

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Alexis Okeowo is a writer for The New Yorker, originally from Alabama, currently living in New York. Her newest book, Blessings and Disasters, is out now. We chat about cortisol levels, millennials putting things in boxes, orange wine at the pub, The Real Housewives Pomodoro Method, she believes Alabama is the perfect slice of America, how to keep your book "moving," why keep books you don't like on your shelf? How to make a screen-free life sexier, and moving from Brooklyn to Manhattan. https://www.instagram.com/aokeowo twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How long gone, I said chill. It's Chris Black.
0:21.7	I am...
0:22.0	Chill, man.
0:23.0	Take it easy.
0:23.5	I'm looking at woods, which is nice.
0:29.3	I'm staring out a window right now.
0:31.3	You're talking about the woods?
0:32.8	The woods.
0:33.4	My court...
0:33.8	Yeah, not backwoods.
0:35.9	Well, technically they are woods in the back of a house. So I guess maybe that could be confusing.
0:41.0	Literal definition.
0:42.9	So I'm looking, I'm sitting at a window. I'm looking out. My cortisol levels are just depleted, you know, low. I took a dip in the pool. So I i'm feeling i'm feeling fairly good after a couple
0:56.5	tumultuous days how's them jeans uh you know just another gloomy morning here in glendale
1:02.0	a little heat heat up soon i'm glad that you because you were really knocked around all over
1:07.6	different midwestern cities for the last. So I'm glad you were able to
1:11.9	drive the 1500 Denali King Cab Sierra Trail Foreman load electric vehicle back to your cabin,
1:24.0	even though we had some troubles with some appliances.
1:27.7	It's fine.
1:28.4	We got through it.
1:29.3	And now you're able to have a swim and look at nature.
1:33.4	Do you believe that your cortisol levels are actually going down?
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