Episode 86: Mattathias Schwartz

Mattathias Schwartz has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Harper's. "I figure it's like digging through a wall with a spoon: if you spend enough time at it eventually you get to the other side." Thanks to TinyLetter and Audible for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: mattathiasschwartz.com Schwartz on Longform [4:00] "A Massacre in Jamaica" (New Yorker • Dec 2011) [20:15] The Philadelphia Independent [25:00] "The Hold-'Em Holdup" (New York Times Magazine • Jun 2006) [26:45] "The Trolls Among Us" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2008) [26:45] "The Church of Warren Buffett" (Harper's • Jan 2010) [35:00] "The Golden Touch" (Harper's • Dec 2008) [36:00] The Big Con (David Maurer • Bobbs-Merrill Company • 1940) [36:30] "The Still Lives of Wells Tower" (Paul Maliszewski • The Brooklyn Rail • Feb 2011) [37:00] "Petroleum, Louisiana" [37:00] "How Fast Can He Cook a Chicken?" (London Review of Books • Oct 2011) [49:00] "Camp Justice" (Kindle Single • Nov 2012) [50:45] "A Mission Gone Wrong" (New Yorker • Jan 2014) [53:15] "The Truth of El Mozote" (Mark Danner • New Yorker • Dec 1993) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices