Episode 463: Mitchell S. Jackson
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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)

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