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Paige Williams is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy.\n\n\u201cI was just sitting in a coffee shop and saw this thing about a Montana dinosaur thief, and thought, oh that\u2019s really interesting, I don\u2019t know anything about that. And I knew nothing about natural history, nothing about natural history museums. I was born and raised in Mississippi. We didn\u2019t talk about that kind of stuff. I grew up in the Baptist church. It certainly wasn\u2019t mentioned there. \u2026 It just was a world completely alien to me, which I love. I love going into worlds that I know nothing about, and I like to take them apart and put them back together again.\u201d\n\n\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Skagen, Squarespace, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@williams_paige\n\n\nWilliams on Longform\n\n\n[3:30] "Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump\u2019s Battering Ram" (New Yorker \u2022 Sep 2018)\n\n\n[9:30] "The Bizarre Tale of the \u2018Dinosaur Artist\u2019 Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils" (Peter Brannen \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Oct 2018)\n\n\n[41:30] "Observer Wins Pulitzer Prize for Coverage of PTL, Bakkers" (Karen Garloch \u2022 Charlotte Observer \u2022 April 1988)\n\n\n[41:30] "Sketches of the New Pulitzer Winners, including 'Brown Lung: A Case of Deadly Neglect'" (New York Times \u2022 April 1981)\n\n\n[42:30] Nieman Fellowship\n\n\n[48:00] "How Waffle House Became a Cultural Icon" (Atlanta \u2022 Dec 2007)\n\n\n[48:45] "'You Have Thousands of Angels Around You'" (Atlanta \u2022 Oct 2007)\n\n\n[57:00] "Finding Dolly Freed" (Self-Published \u2022 Jan 2010)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices