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EPISODE · Mar 6, 2020 · 1H 5M

50: Henry Alford on writing humor for The New Yorker and the art of interviewing

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As interviewed: Irving Ruan Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who writes for The New Yorker, the New York Times, and Vanity Fair. His stories have also appeared in Spy magazine, the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vogue, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, and The Paris Review. He is the author of five books Including How to Live, which won the James Thurber Prize for American Humor, and his most recent, And Then We Danced. Website: www.henryalford.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/henryalford Henry's writing in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/henry-alford Bruce Springsteen Interview for Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/09/bruce-springsteen-cover-story --- MUSIC at the end of the podcast by Neil Swany https://www.instagram.com/swanybeats/

As interviewed: Irving Ruan Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who writes for The New Yorker, the New York Times, and Vanity Fair. His stories have also appeared in Spy magazine, the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vogue, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, and The Paris Review. He is the author of five books Including How to Live, which won the James Thurber Prize for American Humor, and his most recent, And Then We Danced. Website: www.henryalford.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/henryalford Henry's writing in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/henry-alford Bruce Springsteen Interview for Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/09/bruce-springsteen-cover-story --- MUSIC at the end of the podcast by Neil Swany https://www.instagram.com/swanybeats/

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