Isaac Chotiner conducts interviews for The New Yorker.\n\n\u201cPeople like to talk. They like to be asked questions, generally. In the space that I\u2019m doing most interviews, which is politics or politics-adjacent, people have strong views and like to express them. It may be just as simple as that.\u201d\n\nThanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@IChotiner\nChotiner on Longform\nChotiner's New Yorker archive\n[08:03] "V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He will Never Write" (The New Republic \u2022 Dec 2012)\n[25:16] Talk (New York Times Magazine)\n[28:30] He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19." (New York Times Magazine \u2022 May 2020)\n[29:24] "What We Know About Masks and the New Coronavirus" (New Yorker \u2022 April 2020)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices