Episode 79: David Kushner

Longform

Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2014

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

David Kushner, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired and The Atavist. "The minute you see an incredible character, you know. The only thing I can compare it to is bowling, not that I'm much of a bowler. On the few times I've thrown a strike, you know it before it hits the pins." Thanks to TinyLetter and ProFlowers for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @davidkushner davidkushner.com Kushner on Longform [1:00] "The Bones of Marianna" (The Atavist • Dec 2013) [8:15] "The Hacker is Watching" (GQ • Jan 2012) [8:45] Masters of Doom (Random House • 2003) [8:45] Jacked (Wiley • 2012) [28:45] "Prepare to Meet Thy Doom" (Wired • May 2003) [30:45] "Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse" (Rolling Stone • Dec 2007) [31:00] "Time Tunnels Meet Warped Passages" (IEEE Spectrum • Apr 2006) [37:45] "The WikiLeaks Mole" (Rolling Stone • Jan 2014) [41:45] Levittown (Walker & Company • 2009) [43:30] "I Was a Teenage Freak" (Rolling Stone • Sep 2003) [48:00] "Anonymous vs. Steubenville" (Rolling Stone • Nov 2013) [49:45] "Dead End on Silk Road" (Rolling Stone • Feb 2014) [51:45] "Anonymous vs. Scientology" (Maxim • Jul 2008) [54:15] "Sponge-Fraud!" (Vanity Fair • Jun 2012) [57:15] Longform Podcast #64: Gay Talese [1:00:16] "Machine Politics" (New Yorker • May 2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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