This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.

I'm Adam Howard.

We have something special on the podcast for you today.

It's an episode of Talk Easy, featuring our own David Remnick.

Since David is usually the one asking the questions,

we thought you'd be interested in hearing

him on the other side of the mic, talking about his reporting and his life's work with

host Sam Ferozo.

Sam most often does very in-depth interviews with film people, but he is a strong interest

in journalism, and they spoke about David's reporting from Israel at the start of

the current war in Gaza. David has another piece from Israel coming out in the next issue

of The New Yorker. This conversation took place last month. Here's Sam Ferozzo of Talk Easy.

David Remnick.

Hey.

Pleasure to meet you.

Good to meet you.

I was sitting outside with my notes, and the first thing you said to me was, oh, God, you're prepared.

You know why I said that?

There are all sorts of non-preparing nightmares.

One of them is, my understanding is Michael Beschloss, the historian, once showed up to be interviewed at a radio station, and he had written

a book about the U-2 incident. And he sits down with the host, and the host says, no, you-two.

What was Bono really like? And then he says, well, I wrote a book about the U2 incident, at which point the guy literally takes his index finger and shuts off the recorder with a big thunk.

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