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Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer for The New Yorker. "The Really Big One," her article about the rupturing of the Cascadia fault line, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize.\n\n \u201cI can tell you in absolute sincerity: I didn't realize I was writing a scary story. Obviously I know the earthquake is going to be terrifying, and that our lack of preparedness is genuinely really scary. But, as I think often happens as a reporter, you toggle between professional happiness, which is sometimes, frankly, even professional glee\u2014you\u2019re just so thrilled you\u2019re getting what you\u2019re getting\u2014and then the sort of more human and humane response, which comes every time you really set down your pen and think about what it is you\u2019re actually reporting about.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@kathrynschulz\nSchulz on Longform\n[04:15] Schulz\u2019s book criticism for New York\n[07:45] Grist\n[08:15] "The Really Big One" (New Yorker \u2022 Jul 2015)\n[29:15] "Citizen Khan" (New Yorker \u2022 Jun 2016)\n[33:15] Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Ecco \u2022 2010)\n[35:30] "On being wrong" (TED \u2022 Mar 2011)\n[38:45] "Group Think" (New York \u2022 Mar 2011)\n[45:30] "How to Stay Safe When the Big One Comes" (New Yorker \u2022 Jul 2015)\n[55:45] Dwight Garner\u2019s Archive at The New York Times\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices