Episode 114: Jessica Pressler

Published: Oct. 22, 2014, 4:42 p.m.

Jessica Pressler writes for New York, Elle and GQ.\n\n"I really like hustlers, stories about someone who comes out of nowhere and tries to do it for themselves. Those people are just easy to like. Even when they're sort of terrible, they're easy to like."\n\nThanks to TinyLetter and Warby Parker for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n@jpressler\nPressler on Longform\n[3:00] jessicapressler.com\n[11:00] "Philadelphia Story: The Next Borough" (The New York Times \u2022 Aug 2005)\n[17:00] Longform Podcast #77: Dan P. Lee\n[24:00] "It\u2019s Too Bad. And I Don\u2019t Mean It\u2019s Too Bad Like \u2018Screw \u2019Em.\u2019" (New York \u2022 Jul 2011)\n[29:00] "The Dumbest Person in Your Building Is Passing Out Keys to Your Front Door!" (New York \u2022 Sep 2014)\n[29:00] "Let\u2019s, Like, Demolish Laundry" (New York \u2022 May 2014)\n[30:00] "20/30 Vision" (New York \u2022 Aug 2013)\n[39:00] "The GQ Cover Story: Adam Driver" (GQ \u2022 Sep 2014)\n[41:00] "Adam Levine Doesn't Care If You Like Him (But He'd Really Prefer That You Did)" (GQ \u2022 Jul 2014)\n[41:00] "The Full Tatum" (GQ \u2022 Mar 2011)\n[43:00] "American Marvel" (Edith Zimmerman \u2022 GQ \u2022 Jul 2011)\n[49:00] "A Holly Golightly for the Stripper-Embezzlement Age" (New York \u2022 Sep 2011)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices