Okay, good morning everybody. Well, I don't know it's morning for you, but welcome to the

Arcander's Lang show. I'm very excited to be joined by, well, I mean, I don't know you,

Daniel, but I know your work, and I've actually been a fan of your work since before I knew it was your work. I'm talking

about the Brooks-Kepka article that that Brooks-Kepka article was anyway we'll

get into that.

I'm fascinated to talk to you about Brooks, but you're a writer, your bio says features editor.

You love golf, you live in New York, you grew up in LA.

What do you say when you meet someone in an Uber?

What do you do, guy?

I'm a magazine editor, a magazine writer, and a novelist.

So I've a couple books, been working in magazines since right after college.

In 2008, was at GQ as an editor for 12 years, just recently left and have my title's correspondent there, so I still do articles there and then kind of other mix of writing.

The world of a writer, is it as romantic as it is depicted in black and white movies?

I think, you know, at fleeting moments it is but for the most part it's not quite like

it like it was maybe or you know even through I was I was just recently laughing with some friends

who do magazine writing about like reading articles about the sports writers at

the 90s and their million dollar contracts and all this stuff as the magazine

world changes as much as it does right now or with publishing and you know being able to

write for a living is an amazing thing is it is it what it was in terms of that sort of stability and the big loft

departments in New York and the, you know, the big houses out in Montana or whatever probably not but you know I love it I think that the people that can make it work

It's a really special and exciting thing and we wouldn't change the work itself.

As a writer, you travel the world in search constantly, I presume, of a story.

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