Episode 143: Masha Gessen
b"Masha Gessen has written for The New York Times, The London Review of Books, Vanity Fair, and others. Her book about Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,\\xa0The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, came out in April.\\n\\n\\u201cThe moment she said it, it was obvious that I'd been created to write this story. I'd covered both wars in Chechnya. I'd covered a lot of terrorism. I'd studied terrorism. And I'd been a Russian-speaking immigrant in Boston, which actually is the most important qualification for writing this book. It didn't give me special knowledge, but it gave me a lot of questions that I knew to ask that other people wouldn't.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to TinyLetter, Trunk Club, and Casper, for sponsoring this week's episode.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\n@mashagessen\\nGessen on Longform\\n[1:00] The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy (Riverhead Books \\u2022 2015)\\n[34:00] Longform Podcast #30: Keith Gessen\\n[48:00] Blood Matters (Harcourt \\u2022 2008)\\n[50:00] Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot (Riverhead Books \\u2022 2014)\\n[50:00] The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Riverhead Books \\u2022 2012)\\n[50:00] Dead Again (Verso \\u2022 1997)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"