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David Grann is a staff writer for the New Yorker. His new book is The White Darkness.\n\n\u201cI do think in life, and in reporting, that reckoning with failure is a part of the process. And reckoning with your own limitations. I think that\u2019s probably the arc and change I have made as I get older. Just as O\u2019Shea doesn\u2019t get the squid, failure is such an integral part of life and what you make of it. Too often we\u2019re always focused on the success side, and I don\u2019t always think the successes teach us as much as the journey and having things elude us. ... I'm being completely honest, I look at every story I've ever written as a failure. Because I always have some model, some perfect ideal, that I want to try to reach.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\n\nThe Mastermind (Evan Ratliff \u2022 Random House \u2022 Jan 2019)\n\n\nThe Longform Podcast Live: The Mastermind book release party with special guests\n\n\n@DavidGrann\n\n\nGrann on Longform\n\n\nLongform Podcast #3: David Grann\n\n\nLongform Podcast #241: David Grann\n\n\n[1:50] The White Darkness (Doubleday \u2022 2018)\n\n\n[1:55] "The White Darkness" (New Yorker \u2022 Feb 2018)\n\n\n[4:10] "The Squid Hunter" (New Yorker \u2022 May 2004)\n\n\n[11:40] Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday \u2022 2017)\n\n\n[13:35] "The Lost City of Z" (New Yorker \u2022 Sep 2005)\n\n\n[13:40] The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Vintage \u2022 2010)\n\n\n[14:45] "The Hero Myth" (New Republic \u2022 May 1999)\n\n\n[22:30] "The Yankee Comandante" (New Yorker \u2022 May 2012)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices