Episode 508: Erika Hayasaki
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Erika Hayasaki has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Atlantic. Her new book is Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family).

“I don’t subscribe to the belief that it’s our story because we’re the journalist that wrote it — especially when people are sharing these really intimate, deep, painful moments. That is not my story. That’s their story that they've collaborated in a way with me to share through these interviews.”

Show notes:

• @ErikaHayasaki)

• erikahayasaki.com)

•  Hayasaki on Longform)

• Hayasaki’s Atlantic archive)

• 04:00 "Hiroshima") (John Hersey • New Yorker • Aug. 1946)

• 12:00 "A deadly hush in Room 211 — then the killer returned") (Los Angeles Times • April 2007)

• 16:00 "A Criminal Mind") (California Sunday Magazine • Oct. 2015)

• 17:00 "In a Perpetual Present") (Wired • April 2016)

• 18:00 Somewhere Sisters) (Algonquin Books • 2022)

• 19:00 "Identical Twins Hint at How Environments Change Gene Expression") (The Atlantic • May 2018)

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