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Ed Caesar is a freelance writer based in England whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, British GQ, and The Sunday Times Magazine. He is the author of Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon.\n\n\u201cThat was a really horrific situation. People were being killed in the street in front of us. People were firing weapons in all directions. It was really chaotic and quite scary. It freaked me out. And I thought, 'Actually, there's not a huge amount more of this I want to do in my life.'\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, MasterClass, The Message, RealtyShares, and Prudential for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n@edcaesar\nedcaesar.co.uk\nCaesar on Longform\n[2:00] "House of Secrets" (New Yorker \u2022 Jun 2015) [sub req'd]\n[3:00] "Congo: The Horror" (GQ (UK) \u2022 Jan 2010)\n[3:00] "Tehran Nights" (GQ (UK) \u2022 Jun 2009)\n[4:00] We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Philip Gourevitch \u2022 Picador 1999)\n[5:00] "Blood Oil" (Sebastian Junger \u2022 Vanity Fair \u2022 Jun 2009)\n[7:00] "The Visit: Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Life Inside" (The Independent \u2022 Sep 2011)\n[7:00] "Jon Bon Jovi" (The Independent \u2022 May 2006)\n[10:00] The Guardian Long Read\n[17:00] "Hell Is Other People" (GQ (UK) \u2022 May 2014)\n[22:00] Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon (Simon & Schuster\xa0\u2022\xa02015)\n[23:00] "Sammy Wanjiru: The Runner They Left Behind" (Sunday Times Magazine \u2022\xa0Nov 2011)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices