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Hey, Last Archive listeners, welcome to our new six episode series called The Dead Line.

Last year, Jill Lepore, the acclaimed We've chosen six to bring you in this series and each week for the next six weeks

Jill's gonna read one of her essays and then stick around after to talk about its craft and

themes. To start we have one of my personal favorite essays by Jill, the Ice Man, about the history of cryogenic

freezing and the perils of being unable to let go of the past.

And in our conversation, Jill and I talked a bit about where this very strange essay began and the moral challenges of writing about a living person.

This is a crazy origin story. I don't think I've ever told this before.

But I had been writing for the New Yorker for a bunch of years and just doing book reviews, not just. I mean, I love that work.

But my editor said, do you want to profile somebody? And I was like a living person.

Okay, here's the essay.

Stick around after for a conversation.

The Iceman Man

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