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Dr. Jelani Cobb is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of three books, including The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. He teaches journalism at Columbia University.\n\n \u201cRalph Wiley \u2014 the sports writer, late Ralph Wiley \u2014 told me something when I was 25 or so, and he was so right. He said I should never fall in love with anything I\u2019ve written. \u2026 The second thing he told me was, \u2018You won\u2019t get there overnight, and believe me, you don\u2019t want to.\u2019 I\u2019m embarrassed to say that I didn\u2019t get it when he told me that. I was like \u2014 why would I not want to get there overnight? Now I\u2019m like: Thank God I didn\u2019t get there overnight. Because there\u2019s so much writing I would have to explain.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Quip, and Audible for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@jelani9\nCobb on Longform\n[00:00] Stoner\n[01:30] Cobb\u2019s Archive at The New Yorker\n[03:30] "The Life and Death of Jamaica High School" (New Yorker \u2022 Aug 2015)\n[07:45] Cobb\u2019s Archive at Washington City Paper\n[09:40] Longform Podcast #7: Ta-Nehisi Coates\n[09:40] Longform Podcast #97: Ta-Nehisi Coates\n[09:40] Longform Podcast #168: Ta-Nehisi Coates\n[10:00] Joel Dias-Porter\u2019s Archive at The Poetry Foundation\n[10:05] Kenneth Carroll\u2019s Archive at The Poetry Foundation\n[10:10] Elvis Presley Is Alive and Well and Living in Harlem (Brian Gilmore \u2022 Third World Press \u2022 1983)\n[11:30] Marion Barry archive at Washington City Paper\n[21:05] The Progressive\n[21:10] The Crisis\n[23:20] "My Daughter Once Removed" (Chicken Soup for the Soul \u2022 2008)\n[23:40] The Devil & Dave Chappelle & Other Essays (Basic Books \u2022 2007)\n[27:31] "Policing the Police" (Frontline \u2022 June 2016)\n[41:00] "The Ambivalent Legacy of Brown v. Board" (New Yorker \u2022 May 2014)\n[41:30] "The Matter of Black Lives" (New Yorker \u2022 Mar 2016)\n[41:30] "What I Saw in Ferguson" (New Yorker \u2022 Aug 2014)\n[44:40] The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress (Walker Books \u2022 2010)\n[48:50] Trump\u2019s speech in Arizona (CNN \u2022 Aug 2017)\n[57:00] Birth of a Nation (Epoch Producing Co \u2022 1915)\n[53:50] "Podcast #168: Jelani Cobb, The Half-Life of Freedom" (NYPL Podcast \u2022 June 2017)\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices