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Jazmine Hughes is an associate editor at The New York Times Magazine. Her writing has appeared in Th

Episode 164: Lena Dunham

2015/10/28

Lena Dunham, the creator and star of HBO's Girls, is the co-founder of Lenny and the author of Not T

Episode 163: Matthew Shaer

2015/10/21

Matthew Shaer is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York

Episode 162: John Seabrook

2015/10/14

John Seabrook is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factor

Karina Longworth is a film writer and the creator/host of You Must Remember This, a podcast explorin

Episode 160: Jessica Hopper

2015/9/30

Jessica Hopper is editor-in-chief of the Pitchfork Review and the author of The First Collection of

Episode 159: Ira Glass

2015/9/23

Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of This American Life. “You can only have so many ques

Peter Hessler is a staff writer for The New Yorker. “It may have helped that I didn’t have a lot of

Episode 157: Margo Jefferson

2015/9/9

Margo Jefferson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, and Harper's

Episode 156: Renata Adler

2015/9/2

Renata Adler is a journalist, critic, and novelist. Her latest collection of nonfiction is After the

Episode 155: S.L. Price

2015/8/26

S.L. Price is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. “The fact is, if you write about sports and pe

William Finnegan is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. “I

Episode 153: Tim Ferriss

2015/8/12

Tim Ferriss is the author of The Four Hour Workweek and The Four Hour Body. “If you have a fitness

Episode 152: Carol Loomis

2015/8/5

Carol Loomis retired last summer after 60 years at Fortune. She continues to edit Warren Buffett's a

Noreen Malone wrote "Cosby: The Women — An Unwanted Sisterhood," this week's cover story in New York

Episode 151: Ian Urbina

2015/7/29

Ian Urbina, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, just published "The Outlaw Ocean," a f

Margaret Sullivan is the public editor of The New York Times. “Jill Abramson said to me early on, ‘

Episode 85: Tavi Gevinson

2015/7/15

Tavi Gevinson is the founder and editor-in-chief of Rookie. "I just want our readers to know that t

Ross Andersen is the deputy editor of Aeon Magazine. “One of the things that’s been really refreshi

Episode 148: Anna Holmes

2015/7/1

Anna Holmes, the founding editor of Jezebel, writes for The New York Times and is the editorial dire