Episode 379: Joshua Yaffa

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Yaffa is a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker. His first book is Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia. “Especially in a place like Russia, where there’s a lot of sensitivity around what people might tell you—when they do open up to you, there’s a lot of trust there. And you better not abuse it or mishandle it, because you could put people in danger. Just being a decent person, and demonstrating that decency, goes a long way.” Thanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @yaffaesque joshuayaffa.com [19:45] "The Search for Petr Khokhlov" (New York Times Magazine • Jan 2015) [22:45] Longform Podcast #339: Michael Lewis [26:15] "Ukraine's Unlikely President, Promising New Style of Politics, Gets a Tase of Trump's Swamp" (New Yorker • Oct 2019) [30:15] "The Double Sting" (New Yorker • Jul 2015) [37:45] "Russia's House of Shadows" (New Yorker • Oct 2017) [37:45] "A Village Doctor's Literary Calling" (New Yorker • May 2019) [38:00] Citizen K (Alex Gibney) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.0	Hello and welcome to the long form podcast.
1:10.0	I'm Aaron Lamer. I'm here with Max Linsky and Evan Radliff who indeed are our co-hosts as always
1:17.3	Hello you guys and they're my co-hosts are co-hosts
1:20.5	both yours where everyone's co-hosts We're your co-hosts. We're your co-hosts. We're your co-host in this thing called life.
1:26.0	That's right. We're all on the same boat, us, the listeners, and the guests, this week's guest, Josh Yafa.
1:34.3	Who is Josh Yafa?
1:35.3	You guys know Josh Yafa's work?
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