Episode 524: Eric Lach

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Eric Lach is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he covers New York. His latest article is “The Mayor and the Con Man.” “I think about my own trajectory, my little generation of journalists—it was easier to get jobs reporting on national politics than to get a job reporting on something that you could see and go to and that is a really strange thing, the relief and the joy that I feel like when I can just take the subway twenty minutes to go see something interesting for a story or talk to somebody interesting or explore physically and not just feel like I’m making phone calls and Googling. It’s a very different kind of work, but it’s just not something that was super available.” Show notes: @Eric Lach Lach on Longform Lach’s New Yorker archive 08:00 "Eric Adams Says He Has Swagger. What Else Does He Have?" (New Yorker • Jan 2022) 12:00 "What is Eric Adams’s Plan for the Riker Island Crisis?" (New Yorker • Jan 2022) 13:00 "Eric Adams Wants to Compstat New York City" (New Yorker • May 2021) 15:00 “Eric Adams Rakes in $7.7 Million, With Help From Wealthy Donors” (Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Dana Rubinstein • New York Times • Oct 2021) 24:00 "Why Do So Many New York Politicians Want Paperboy Prince to Hit Them in the Face with a Pie?" (New Yorker • June 2021) 26:00 "“Pretty Much a Big Mess”: One Iowa Caucus Precinct’s Drama-Filled Night" (New Yorker • Feb 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.2	Hello, welcome to the Longform Podcast. I'm Aaron Lammer here with Max Linsky and Evan Ratliffe,
0:45.3	the co-host of this podcast. What's up, guys?
0:48.7	Hi, guys. Aaron, did you do an interview this week?
0:52.8	Oh, I did. I did. I talked to Eric Latch. You may have seen an article in the New Yorker.
1:01.2	I think it came out at the very end of January about various people in the retinue.
1:08.4	No, is that the right word?
1:10.9	What's the word for it? I don't care if it is the right word. I think you should go with it.
1:13.8	You just use retinue. The hangars on around the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams,
1:20.0	including a bishop, who also went viral after being robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars
1:27.9	worth of jewelry on his live stream. And that's really only the beginning of the bizarre
1:34.9	occurrences documented in this piece. Eric writes for the New Yorker. He's written for the New Yorker
1:41.0	for many years. I guess the thing that I was kind of interested in talking to him about,
1:45.5	I mean, I apologize to the listeners who feel like this show is overly New York centric. You can
1:50.6	just turn this episode off if that's your feeling. If you perhaps are interested in local New York
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