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b'Alex Perry, based in England, has covered Africa and Asia for Newsweek and Time. His most recent book is The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free.\\n\\n\\u201cI got a call from one of my editors in 2003 or 2004, and he said something like, \\u2018You realize someone has died in the first line of every story you\\u2019ve filed for the last eight months?\\u2019 And my response was, \\u2018Of course. Isn\\u2019t that how we know it\\u2019s important?\\u2019 It took me a long time to work out that the importance of a story isn\\u2019t established only by death.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp,Feverborn, and AlarmGrid for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\n@PerryAlexJ\\nalex-perry.com\\nPerry on Longform\\n[2:00] The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free (Weidenfeld & Nicolson \\u2022 2015)\\n[3:00] The Hunt for Boko Haram (Newsweek Insights \\u2022 2014)\\n[4:00] "Inside the World of Louis Sarno, the Pygmy Chief from New Jersey" (Howard Swains \\u2022 Newsweek \\u2022 Apr 2015)\\n[4:00] "Behind the Scenes in Putin\\u2019s Court: The Private Habits of a Latter-Day Dictator" (Ben Judah \\u2022 Newsweek \\u2022 Jul 2014)\\n[27:20] "The Collateral Crisis in Somalia" (Time \\u2022 Sep 2011)\\n[44:00] "Once Upon a Jihad" (Newsweek \\u2022 Jan 2015)\\n[47:00] HHhH: A Novel (Laurent Binet \\u2022 Picador \\u2022 2013)\\n[54:00] "The Cocaine Crisis: How the Drug Trade is Ruining West Africa" (Time \\u2022 Oct 2012)\\n[54:00] Cocaine Highway: The Lines That Link Our Drug Habit to Terror (Newsweek Insights \\u2022 2014)\\n[56:00] The Quake: The Day Everest Shook Its Bones (Newsweek Insights \\u2022 2015)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'