Episode 119: Alec Wilkinson
Alec Wilkinson is a staff writer for The New Yorker.\n\n\u201cMy hero was Joseph Mitchell, that was how you did reporting. There was nothing conniving about it or cunning \u2014 you just simply kept returning and kept returning.\u201d\n\nThanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\nWilkinson on Longform\n[2:00] "The Protest Singer" (New Yorker \u2022 Apr 2006)\n[6:00] Midnights: A Year With the Welfleet Police (Random House \u2022 1982)\n[9:00] My Mentor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \u2022 2002)\n[9:00] Across the River and into the Trees (Ernest Hemingway \u2022 1950)\n[24:00] Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor (Knopf \u2022 1985)\n[25:00] Big Sugar (Knopf \u2022 1989)\n[27:00] The Happiest Man in the World (Random House \u2022 2007)\n[34:00] "New York Is Killing Me" (New Yorker \u2022 Aug 2010)\n[42:00] "Sam and Other Reflections on Being a Father" (Esquire \u2022 Jun 2000)\n[47:00] The Ice Balloon (Knopf \u2022 2012)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices