Episode 296: Leon Neyfakh

Leon Neyfakh is a writer and the host of Slow Burn. “We didn’t want to be coy about why we were doing the show. We wanted to be up front. We’re interested in this era because it seems like the last time in our nation’s history where things were this wild and the news was this rapid fire and the outcome was this uncertain. That was the main parallel we were thinking about when we started. It was only when we started learning the story and identified the turning points we kept running into these obvious parallels. We mostly didn’t lean into them. We didn’t chase them. There wasn’t a quota of parallels per episode.” Thanks to MailChimp, MUBI, and Thermacell for sponsoring this week's episode. Also: Longform Podcast t-shirts are now available for a limited time only! @leoncrawl Leon Neyfakh on Longform Longform Podcast t-shirts [02:05] Slow Burn [03:00] The Next Next Level (Melville House • 2015) [20:55] All the President's Men (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein • Simon & Schuster • 1974) [22:05] Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (J. Anthony Lukas • Viking • 1976) [22:05] Wars of Watergate (Stanley Kutler • Norton • 1992) [22:15] The Dick Cavett Show [30:25] Leon Neyfakh's archive at New York Observer [31:40] “Three HarperCollins Imprints Face Off For $2.5 Million Sarah Silverman Book” (Observer • Nov 2008) [38:40] “The Sadness of T-Pain” (The New Yorker • Mar 2004) [38:45] “Peak Drake” (The Fader • Sep 2015) [38:50] “Rae of Light” (Maxim • Apr 2015) [38:55] “Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's Music Biz Misadventures” (Rolling Stone • Jun 2014) [47:15] “Who Will Survive When Migos Meets Big Data?” (The Fader • Nov 2014)