Rerun: #429 Vinson Cunningham (Feb 2021)
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Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His novel, published in March 2024, is Great Expectations).

“I think the job is just paying a bunch of attention. If you're a person like me, where thoughts and worries are intruding on your consciousness all the time, it is a great relief to have something to just over-describe and over-pay-attention to—and kind of just give all of your latent, usually anxious attention to this one thing. That, to me, is a great joy.”

Show notes:

• @vcunningham)

• vinson.nyc)

• Cunningham on Longform)

• Cunningham's New Yorker archive)

• 04:00 "’The Suit’ at BAM") (Brooklyn Paper • Jan 2013)

• 04:00 "Label Maker: Edward Buchanan") (Nylon Guys • Mar 2015)

• 09:00 circlejerk.live)

• 11:00 Jeremy O. Harris’ plays)

• 11:00 "How Are Audiences Adapting to the Age of Virtual Theatre?") (New Yorker • Oct 2020)

• 18:00 "The Season of Russell Westbrook and a New Era in N.B.A. Fandom") (New Yorker • Apr 2017)

• 25:00 Cunningham's McSweeney’s archive)

• 25:00 "The Flies in Kehinde Wiley’s Milk") (The Awl • Jun 2015)

• 25:00 "Can Black Art Ever Escape the Politics of Race?") (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2015)

• 25:00 "How Chris Jackson is Building a Black Literary Movement") (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2016)

• 27:00 "Stephon Marbury Has His Own Story to Tell") (New Yorker • Apr 2020)

• 28:00 "The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers") (New Yorker • Jan 2018)

• 29:00 WTF with Marc Maron)

• 32:00 "Tracy Morgan Turns the Drama of His Life into Comedy") (New Yorker • May 2019)

• 36:00 Redd Foxx party albums)

• 38:00 Alexandra Schwartz’ New Yorker archive)

• 41:00 Simon Parkin on Longform)

• 41:00 Adrian Chen on Longform)

• 42:00 "The Many Lives of Steven Yeun") (Jay Caspian Kang • New York Times Magazine • Feb 2021)

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