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Episode 467: Kelefa Sanneh

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Kelefa Sanneh is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His book is Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. “I’m always thinking about how to not be that person at a party who corners you and tells you about their favorite thing and you’re trying to get away. It’s got to feel light and fun. And what that means in practice is writing about music for readers who don’t care about music, while at the same time writing something that the connoisseurs don’t roll their eyes too hard at.” Show notes: Sanneh on Longform Sanneh's New Yorker archive 01:00 "The Education of a Part-Time Punk" (New Yorker • Sep 2021) 14:00 "Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show" (David Remnick • New Yorker • Oct 2021) 17:00 "How Morgan Wallen Became the Most Wanted Man in Country" (New Yorker • Dec 2020) 23:00 "Party of One" (New Yorker • Jul 2009) 25:00 "Can Jake Paul Fight His Way Out of Trouble?" (New Yorker • Nov 2021) 34:00 "Gettin' Paid" (New Yorker • Aug 2001) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I went to the precinct and I said, look, I wanted to talk about a murder that I think

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happened.

0:09.0

In 1993, Trevel Coleman shot a man, but was never a suspect.

0:15.2

He kept the secret for years and years.

0:17.8

I've heard of people turning themselves in, but it's usually, soon thereafter, the crime,

0:23.3

I've never experienced anything like someone coming forward 17 years after the fact,

0:28.0

so no, this is absolutely extraordinary.

0:31.0

Here Trevel's story on the latest episode of Criminal.

0:34.0

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.0

Hello and welcome to the Longform Podcast.

0:48.6

I am Aaron Lammer, joined remotely are my co-hosts Max Linsky and Evan Ralliff.

0:55.9

Good evening Aaron.

0:56.9

Hey, guys, do I need to mention that this is remotely anymore or should that just be

1:01.4

the default assumption?

1:03.7

We'll acknowledge if and when we are ever in person again, we will say that out loud.

1:07.9

Just assume we're not in the same place.

1:10.7

It is strange to think we did this podcast entirely in person for like eight years leading

1:17.2

up until the pandemic, but we bring to you now the ongoing pandemic experiment in the

1:22.6

Longform Podcast.

1:24.6

This week I talked to Kelifas Sane, he is, of course, a staff writer at the New Yorker and

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has a new book out, it's called Major Labels.

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It's about all of the second half of the 20th century's music history, all in one book.

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