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b'Rosecrans Baldwin is a writer and regular contributor to GQ. His latest novel is The Last Kid Left.\\n\\n\\u201cIt requires a lot of preparation in order to just have lunch with Roger Federer. Being a person who tends toward anxiety and also a former Boy Scout\\u2014put those two things together and I will exhaustively prepare so that I can come across like a complete idiot. The idea of sitting down with someone like that is that you should know everything about their life and their career so that you can go in with 12 questions in the back of your mind.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Breach, CoinTalk, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Mastermind (Evan Ratliff \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 2019)\\n\\n\\n@rosecrans\\n\\n\\nBaldwin on Longform\\n\\n\\nrosecransbaldwin.com\\n\\n\\n[1:15]The Morning News\\n\\n\\n[1:50] "My Life Cleanse: One Month Inside L.A.\'s Cult of Betterness" (GQ \\u2022 Nov 2018)\\n\\n\\n[9:15] "The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High" (Jay Caspian Kang \\u2022 The Morning News \\u2022 Oct 2010)\\n\\n\\n[11:40] All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel (Anthony Doerr \\u2022 Scribner \\u2022 2017)\\n\\n\\n[12:15] "A Year of Kibble-and-Playdates Calculus" (New York \\u2022 Oct 2007)\\n\\n\\n[12:45] Paris, I Love You but You\'re Bringing Me Down (Picador \\u2022 2013)\\n\\n\\n[13:00] Baldwin\'s archive at GQ\\n\\n\\n[13:05] "Am I Too Old to Win the U.S. Open?" (GQ \\u2022 Sep 2014)\\n\\n\\n[13:45] "Will Roger Federer Ever Be Done?" (GQ \\u2022 Mar 2017)\\n\\n\\n[18:35] "Welcome to Camp Midlife Crisis!" (GQ \\u2022 Aug 2016)\\n\\n\\n[22:40] "Learn to Kill in Seven Days or Less" (GQ \\u2022 Mar 2014)\\n\\n\\n[33:50] Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace (Margaret Thaler Singer \\u2022 Jossey-Bass \\u2022 2003)\\n\\n\\n[34:20] "I Cried Enough to Fill a Glass" (Mark Fisher \\u2022 Washington Post \\u2022 Oct 1987)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'