Rerun: #463 Mitchell S. Jackson (Nov 2021)

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. ”What is 'great'? 'Great' isn’t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?” Show notes: @MitchSJackson mitchellsjackson.com Jackson on Longform 00:00 "Twelve Minutes and a Life" (Runner’s World • Jun 2020) 01:00 Pafko at the Wall (Don DeLillo • Scribner • 2001) 03:00 "Ahmaud Arbery’s Final Minutes: What Videos and 911 Calls Show" (Malachy Browne, Drew Jordan, Dmitriy Khavin and Ainara Tiefenthaler • New York Times • May 2020) 12:00 "We Went to Vegas to Wring Joy From Heartbreak" (New York Times Magazine • Sep 2021) 16:00 Survival Math (Scribner • 2020) 24:00 The Residue Years (Bloomsbury • 2014) 29:00 "Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Spanbauer Share Writing Secrets" (Jeff Baker • Oregonian • May 2014) 34:00 "When Michael B. Jordan Promises to Come Home, He Means It" (Esquire • Nov 2019) 36:00 "Chris Rock's Plan for Immortality" (Esquire • May 2021) 44:00 "Prison" (Richard Just, Editor • Washington Post • Oct 2019) 44:00 "Calendars" (Washington Post • Oct 2019) 45:00 Olio (Tyehimba Jess • Wave Books • 2016) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:26.0	Hello and welcome to the long form pod guest. I'm Evan Ratliffe and we are actually off this week.
1:37.0	So instead we have for you an interview I did with Mitchell Jackson back in 2021.
1:42.0	Mitchell is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his runners world story about the murder of Ahmed Arbery titled 12 minutes and a life.
1:50.0	Read that if you haven't.
1:52.0	He's also the author of a memoir of his life growing up in Portland called Survival Math.
1:56.0	He's one of my favorite guests of the last few years and I hope that if you haven't heard it already you enjoy it.
2:02.0	We'll be back next week with a new episode and for now here's myself with Mitchell Jackson last year.
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