Episode 67: Evan Wright

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Education, Books, Arts, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Evan Wright, a two-time National Magazine Award winner, is the author of Generation Kill. "When people were killed, civilians especially, I realized I was the only person there who would write it down. I was frantic about getting names, and in the book there are a few Arabic names, some of the victims. Not that anyone cares. But I thought, 'At least somewhere there's a record of this.'" Thanks to our sponsor, TinyLetter. Show notes: @evanscribe Wright on Longform [3:45] Generation Kill (2004) [10:00] "Scenes From My Life in Porn" (L.A. Weekly • Mar 2000) [12:15] A.J. Liebling’s New Yorker archive [14:15] "Big Red Son" (David Foster Wallace • Consider the Lobster • 1998) [pdf] [16:30] Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (D.T. Max • 2012) [18:15] Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe,Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America (2009) [28:00] "The Killer Elite" (Rolling Stone • Jul 2003) [30:30] Longform Podcast #64: Gay Talese [33:30] Wikipedia: Christopher Isherwhood [39:30] Karl Taro Greenfield on Longform [48:30] "Pat Dollard's War on Hollywood" (Vanity Fair • Mar 2007) [57:00] American Desperado: My Life—From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset (with Jon Roberts • 2011) [1:00:00] How to Get Away with Murder in America: Drug Lords, Dirty Pols, Obsessed Cops, and the Quiet Man Who Became the CIA's Master Killer (Kindle Single • 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.3	Hey, it's the Long Forum podcast. I'm Aaron Lamer. We're off this week and next week for the
1:05.8	holidays, but we're playing some favorite old episodes. Here's one I taped in 2013 with Evan Wright. If you want to
1:13.0	send a holiday gift to the show, go on iTunes, rate it, review it. It counts. Here's me and
1:19.3	Evan Wright from, I think, November 2013.
1:35.5	Hey, welcome to the Long Form podcast. I'm Aaron Lammer here with my co-host, Evan Ratlin from The Adivist and Max Slinsky from Longform. Hey, guys.
1:41.5	Hey, you doing, guys. Good morning. Got in a little late today. It's not a, it's not a rare occurrence.
1:44.7	Speak for yourself. I am.
1:45.6	He is.
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