Episode 449: Jessica Bruder

Published: July 28, 2021, 5:37 p.m.

b'Jessica Bruder is a journalist and author of the book\\xa0Nomadland.\\u201cI don\\u2019t do a hard sell. I\\u2019ll tell people what my MO is, but I don\\u2019t push people to talk with me. I want to go deep with people. I want to be able to have the time to just sit with them and to say, \\u2018start at the beginning.\\u2019 Sometimes going chronologically will just take you to these places that wouldn\\u2019t have come up if I\\u2019ve just done a very guided interview. So I hung out. I\\u2019m not relentless. I don\\u2019t wear people down. But I stick around. If people just want me to fuck off, I fuck off, and I talk to other people..\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to\\xa0Mailchimp\\xa0and\\xa0The London Review of Books\\xa0for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow notes:\\njessicabruder.com\\n@jessbruder\\n01:00\\xa0Nomadland\\xa0(W. W. Norton & Company \\u2022 2018)\\n11:30\\xa0Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man\\xa0(Gallery Books \\u2022 2007)\\n13:00\\xa0"Snowball\'s Court Decision Set for Tomorrow"\\xa0(The Oregonian \\u2022 October 2007)\\n13:30\\xa0"Faith-healing Deaths "\\xa0(The Oregonian \\u2022 June 2009)\\n16:00\\xa0"Has Perky Jerky Lost Its Perk?"\\xa0(New York Times \\u2022 August 2011)\\n19:30\\xa0"Slump in construction industry creates a Sheetrock ghost town"\\xa0(The Christian Science Monitor \\u2022 June 2011)\\n21:30\\xa0"I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave"\\xa0(Gabriel Mac \\u2022 Mother Jones \\u2022 March/April 2012)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'