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Abe Streep is a journalist and contributing editor for Outside. His new book is Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana.
”The way journalists talk about, ‘Did you get the story?’—that's not how I see this. That would be extractive in this setting, I think. If someone shares something personal with me, that is a serious matter. It's a gift and you’ve got to treat it with great respect.”
Show notes:

@abestreep

abestreep.com

 Streep on Longform

03:00 "What the Arlee Warriors Were Playing For" (New York Times Magazine • Apr 2018)

03:00 Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana (Celadon Books • 2021)

09:00 "The Legends of Last Place" (The Atavist • Apr 2013)

24:00 Custer Died for Your Sins (Vine Deloria • University of Oklahoma Press • 1988)

34:00 Friday Night Lights (H.G. Bissinger • Da Capo • 1990)

34:00 The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams (Darcy Frey • Houghton Mifflin • 1994)

35:00 Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn (Larry Colton • Grand Central • 2001)


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Connie Walker is an investigative reporter and podcast host. Her latest show is Stolen: The Search for Jermain.

“For so long, there has been this kind of history of journalists coming in and taking stories from Indigenous communities. And that kind of extractive, transactional kind of journalism really causes a lot of harm. And so much of our work is trying to undo and address that. There is a way to be a storyteller and help amplify and give people agency in their stories.”

Show notes:

@connie_walker

Walker's CBC News archive

00:00 Missing & Murdered (CBC News)

04:00 "The Injustice to Pamela George Continues Long After Her Murder" (Heather Mallick • Toronto Star • Jan 2020)

08:00 Street Cents (CBC)

12:00 "Alicia Ross: Everyone’s Daughter" (Catherine McDonald • Global News • Apr 2020)

14:00 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada


19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 1: "Indigenous in the City" (CBC • 2012)

19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 2: "It’s Time" (CBC • 2012)

19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 3: "Whose Land Is It Anyway?" (CBC • 2012)

19:00 8th Fire, Ep. 4: "At the Crossroads" (CBC • 2012)

22:00 "Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview" (Royal Canadian Mounted Police • 2014)

24:00 "Missing and Murdered: The Life and Mysterious Death of Leah Anderson" (CBC News • Mar 2015)

26:00 Serial


27:00 "Amber Tuccaro's Unsolved Murder: Do You Recognize This Voice?" (Marnie Luke and Connie Walker • CBC News • Jun 2015)

27:00 "Unresolved: Patricia Carpenter" (Holly Moore • CBC News • Jun 2016)

27:00 Missing & Murdered Season 1: Who Killed Alberta Williams? (Connie Walker and Marnie Luke • CBC News)

27:00 Missing & Murdered Season 2: Finding Cleo (Connie Walker and Marnie Luke • CBC News)

35:00 Ochberg Fellowship


37:00 "Duncan McCue on Reporting in Indigenous Communities" (Ryerson Today • Apr 2018)

37:00 Reporting in Indigenous Communities Guide (Duncan McCue)

39:00 Stolen (Gimlet • 2021)

39:00 "Jermain Charlo Missing Two Years on Tuesday" (Seaborn Larson • Missoulian • Jun 2020)

44:00 "Monday's Montanan: Lauren Small Rodriguez Helps Native Trafficking Survivors" (Patrick Reilly • Missoulian • Feb 2020)


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Parul Sehgal, a former a book critic for The New York Times, is now a staff writer at The New Yorker.
“My job is I think to be honest with the reader and to keep surfacing new ways for me and for other people to think about books. New vocabularies of pleasure and disgust.”
Show notes:

parulsehgal.com

@parul_sehgal

Sehgal's New York Times archive


“Mothers of Invention: A Group of Authors Finds New Narrative Possibilities in Parenthood” (Bookforum • 2015)


“In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate” (New York Times • 2019)


“#MeToo Is All Too Real. But to Better Understand it, Turn to Fiction.” (New York Times • 2019)

Jia Tolentino on Longform


“Peter Luger Used to Sizzle. Now It Sputters.” (Pete Wells • New York Times • 2019)


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George Saunders is the author of eleven books. His latest is A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.
”I really have so much affection for being alive. I really enjoy it. And yet, I’m a little negative minded in a lot of ways too, like I really think things tend to be f****d up. ... To get that on the page—to sufficiently praise the loveliness of the world without being a sap, and also lacerate the world for being so goddamn mean—to do those in the same story would be a great aspiration. And I haven’t gotten there yet.”
Show notes:

georgesaundersbooks.com

Saunders on Longform


Saunders on the Longform Podcast (Jan 2014)

Saunders' Story Club newsletter

16:00 "First Thohts on Reviision" (Story Club • Dec 2021)

28:00 "The Great Divider" (GQ • Jan 2007)

48:00 "Sea Oak" (New Yorker • Dec 1998)


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Emily Oster is an economist, professor, and author. Her new book is The Family Firm.
”[COVID] has been 18 months of being a person who is slightly more public, who is saying things that are somewhat more controversial, where people yell at me a lot. ... I do much less reading of the comments than I did early on because I found that eventually I just got mad and that's not a productive way to interact. And it affects how I think about what I write, and I would like what I write to be the things that I think are true, not the things I think will avoid people being angry.”

Show notes:

@ProfEmilyOster

emilyoster.net


"Steve Cohen-Backed Radkl Hires DeFi Trader Aaron Lammer" (Nick Baker • Bloomberg • Nov 2021)


Expecting Better (Penguin Books • 2014)


Cribsheet (Penguin Books • 2020)


The Family Firm (Penguin Books • 2021)

Oster’s Parent Data newsletter

35:00 "Antibiotics and Allergies, Zika, Travel Baby Carriers..." (Parent Data • Feb 2020)

36:00 "Grandparents & Day Care" (Parent Data • May 2020)

36:00 "She Fought to Reopen Schools, Becoming a Hero and a Villain" (Dana Goldstein • New York Times • Jun 2021)

36:00 "Emily Oster, the Brown Economist, Is Launching a New Data Hub on Schools and the Pandemi." (Dana Goldstein • New York Times • Sept 2021)

36:00 "Schools Aren’t Super-Spreaders" (The Atlantic • Oct 2020)

37:00 "Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma" (The Atlantic • Mar 2021)

42:00 Oster’s COVID-19 School Response Dashboard


44:00 "Emily Oster Thinks of Herself As an Expert on Data in Parenting, Not Parenting Itself" (Alex Hazlett • The Cut • Aug 2021)

45:00 "Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from US States" (Clare Halloran, Rebecca Jack, James Okun, Emily Oster • NBER • Nov 2021)


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Kelefa Sanneh is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His book is Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres.

“I’m always thinking about how to not be that person at a party who corners you and tells you about their favorite thing and you’re trying to get away. It’s got to feel light and fun. And what that means in practice is writing about music for readers who don’t care about music, while at the same time writing something that the connoisseurs don’t roll their eyes too hard at.”

Show notes:

Sanneh on Longform

Sanneh's New Yorker archive

01:00 "The Education of a Part-Time Punk" (New Yorker • Sep 2021)

14:00 "Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show" (David Remnick • New Yorker • Oct 2021)

17:00 "How Morgan Wallen Became the Most Wanted Man in Country" (New Yorker • Dec 2020)

23:00 "Party of One" (New Yorker • Jul 2009)

25:00 "Can Jake Paul Fight His Way Out of Trouble?" (New Yorker • Nov 2021)

34:00 "Gettin' Paid" (New Yorker • Aug 2001)


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