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Matthew Shaer is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York, GQ, and The Atavist Magazine.\n\n\u201cI could not turn off the freelance switch in my head. I could not not be thinking about these different types of stories. My Google Alert list looks like a serial killer's.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Squarespace, Howl, and MasterClass for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n@matthewshaer\nmatthewshaer.com\nShaer on Longform\n[12:00] "A Shtetl Divided" (Harper's \u2022 Jan 2011) [sub req'd]\n[15:00] Among Righteous Men: A Tale of Vigilantes and Vindication in Hasidic Crown Heights (Wiley & Sons \u2022 2011)\n[18:00] "A Monster Among the 'From'" (New York \u2022 Dec 2011)\n[24:00] "The Orthodox Hit Squad" (GQ \u2022 Sept 2014)\n[27:00] "Whatsoever Things Are True" (Atavist \u2022 Sept 2015)\n[46:00] "How Thailand's Most Notorious Prison Became a Fight Club" (Men's Journal\u2022 Apr 2014)\n[47:00] "Freedom Fighters" (Hemispheres\u2022 Nov 2013)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices