Episode 472: Michael Schulman
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Michael Schulman is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He recently profiled) Jeremy Strong of Succession.

”There's an interesting moment that's part of this job where you’ve spent a lot of time with someone and it often feels very personal and very intimate. And then when you go to write the piece, you have to sort of take a breath and say to yourself, Okay, I'm not writing this for this person. I'm writing this for the reader.”

Show notes:

• @MJSchulman)

• michael-schulman.com)

• Schulman on Longform)

• Schulman's New Yorker archive)

• 01:00 "On ‘Succession,’ Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke") (New Yorker • Dec 2021)

• 03:00 Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep) (Harper • 2016)

• 09:00 "Wendy Williams Dishes the Dirt") (New Yorker • May 2021)

• 35:00 "Adam Driver, the Original Man") (New Yorker • Oct 2019)

• 37:00 "A Defense of Jeremy Strong (and All the Strivers With No Chill)") (Elizabeth Spiers • New York Times • Jan 2022)

• 44:00 "Bridget Everett is Larger than Life") (New Yorker • Jan 2022)

• 45:00 "The Otherworldly Comedy of Julio Torres") (New Yorker • Dec 2020)

• 47:00 "Bo Burnham’s Age of Anxiety") (New Yorker • Jun 2018)

• 47:00 "Troye Sivan’s Coming of Age") (New Yorker • Jun 2019)

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