I had simply never heard an interview like that one, with a host so engaged and a guest so honestly and openly themself.
Moskovitz on WTF: a host so present the guest drops the performance. Inverse of the modern podcast — no producer, no clip-bait. Long-form intimacy is craft.
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DefectorA reflection on the Longform podcast's decade-plus archive of interviews with nonfiction writers — a record of journalism's recent past, one craft conversation at a time.
Most of our technology exists to domesticate space. Literature tackles the opposite: how to master ourselves.
Fletcher's reframe saves the humanities from the 'useless majors' pile. Sell Proust as a cognitive tool, not an aesthetic ornament—STEM kids actually buy it.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Every meritocratic pitch deck should print this at the top. The given is always conditional, and the giver can always rescind.