The Sunday Long Read Podcast

Pulitzer-winning reporter Don Van Natta Jr. and journalist Jacob Feldman chat with writers and editors from across the industry as an audio extension of The Sunday Long Read e-mail newsletter.

The Sunday Long Read Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 68 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Tablet's editor on opinion writing and Gen Z’s newfound love of print

  Dec 13, 202546 minS0

  <p>Q&A: Tablet Magazine's EIC on opinion writing and Gen Z’s newfound love of print </p> <p>In a new Sunday Long Read podcast episode, Alana Newhouse, the editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine, unpacks one of the magazine’s latest cover stories: a piece about the horrors of factory farming in the U.S., specifically as it relates to pig farms. Newhouse unflinchingly argues in a corresponding letter from the editor that Americans should stop eating industrially produced meat. “We are consuming slop, and producing slop,” she argues. “The two are related.”</p> <p>In this in-depth Q&A, Newhouse chat...

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  Journalist Bradley Hope talks narrative writing and the future of AI

  Oct 17, 202548 minS0

  <p>Journalist Bradley Hope talks narrative writing and the future of AI</p> <p>In a new Q&A with the Sunday Long Read, journalist Bradley Hope chats about his recent story for WIRED: a deep dive into the deadly sinking of the superyacht Bayesian, which sank off the coast of Italy during a storm last year, killing seven people—including the vessel’s billionaire owner, Michael Lynch.  </p> <p>The yacht’s tragic, and initially unexplained, sinking immediately became fodder for conspiracy theorists. This year, Hope painstakingly unraveled the full story for WIRED.</p> <p>In a wide-ranging interview with SLR...

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  “Proximity is power” : Max Blau on mixing investigative and feature writing (Live at UGA)

  Sep 26, 20251h 11mS0

  <p>Sunday Long Read co-founder Jacob Feldman talks with ProPublica’s Max Blau in a wide-ranging conversation about his piece “I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network, the art of combining investigative and feature reporting and what it was like to see his story adapted for a stage performance. This episode was recorded in July live at the University of Georgia, in partnership with the school’s Low-Residency MFA in Narrative Nonfiction. </p> <p>This episode was hosted by Jacob Feldman and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. The Sunday Long Read Pod...

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  What does Hampton Inn’s popularity say about us, with Bloomberg’s Patrick Clark

  Aug 29, 202528 minS0

  <p>The Sunday Long Read chats with Bloomberg’s Patrick Clark about one of his latest articles: a deep dive into the hotel chain Hampton Inn, and why its reputation as being "rigorously OK” has led, unexpectedly, to world domination. </p> <p>Read Patrick's story : American Mid: Hampton Inn’s Good-Enough Formula for World Domination</p> <p>As Americans take some of their last summer vacations this Labor Day weekend, Clark digs into everything from Hampton Inn’s “good-enough” business formula, to the perceived value of a free hotel breakfast, to the reporting process when writing about the country’s largest hotel c...

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  Thinking about your sun exposure this summer? Journalist Rowan Jacobsen has answers

  Jul 12, 202545 minS0

  <p>Q&A: Thinking about your sun exposure this summer? Journalist Rowan Jacobsen has answers</p> <p>As summer officially kicks off, Behind the Story host Amanda Ulrich chats with fellow journalist Rowan Jacobsen about his in-depth reporting on sunlight and sun exposure—and its many benefits you may not know about. Rowan gives his take on when you should wear sunscreen, how to write a narrative-driven science story, and whether or not moving to a sunny place may just be the key to longevity. </p> <p>Rowan is a journalist and author who writes about science and nature for man...

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