Recode Decode: Sally Quinn, author, "Finding Magic"

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Sally Quinn, the author of "Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book and her career in journalism. Quinn got her start covering the Washington, D.C., party circuit for the Washington Post under its then-Editor Ben Bradlee, whom she later married. Quinn became an atheist early in her chilhood, but her views of religion evolved over time, leading her to become the Post's religion columnist and one of its first bloggers. She says the inspiration for her book came from how — in Bradlee's final years, when he developed dementia — she realized that taking care of him gave her life meaning. Plus: The real story behind the now-infamous "hexes" Quinn used to cast on people and why Donald Trump's real religion is the "prosperity gospel." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:11.3	You may know me as someone who really asks the hard questions such as why is there no
0:15.1	iPhone 9, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast
0:20.4	about tech and media's key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live
0:24.4	in.
0:25.4	In more episodes of Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, or ever
0:29.9	you listen to your podcasts, or just visit recode.net slash podcasts for more.
0:35.4	Today, I'm in Washington, D.C. again, and I'm here in the studio with a legendary journalist
0:40.6	Sally Quinn, the author of Finding Magic, a spiritual memoir, which is her latest home.
0:47.0	Sally is a former style writer for the Washington Post and a religion columnist there, and she
0:51.6	ran a website too.
0:52.6	In her new book, she talks about the search for spiritual meaning in life, as well as her
0:56.3	marriage to Washington Post, Editor Ben Bradley, and her second life at the center of D.C.'s
1:01.5	social world.
1:02.5	She also explains how she likes to put hexes on her enemies, which we're going to talk
1:06.2	about, which I fully support.
1:08.5	So I'm going to tread very carefully in her view, although in doubt she will hex me.
1:12.3	Sally, welcome to Recode Decode.
1:13.7	Thank you.
1:14.7	For coming.
1:15.7	I will talk about the hexing situation, which again, I'm fully behind.
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