Episode 488: Sam Knight

Published: May 25, 2022, 3:59 p.m.

b'Sam Knight is a London-based staff writer for\\xa0The New Yorker. His new book is\\xa0The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold.\\n\\u201cI had a kind of working definition of what a premonition was when I was writing this book, which is: It\'s not just a feeling. It\'s not just a hunch. It\'s just not like a sense in the air. It\'s like, you\\xa0know. You know, and you don\'t even want to know because you can\'t know and no one\'s going to believe you that you know, but you\\xa0know. And what are you going to do about it? It\'s a horrible feeling.\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@samknightwrites\\n\\nsamknight.net\\n\\nKnight on Longform\\n\\nKnight\'s\\xa0New Yorker\\xa0archive\\n\\nKnight\'s\\xa0Guardian\\xa0archive\\n\\n09:00\\xa0"Mixed up in Minsk"\\xa0(Times of London \\u2022 Mar 2007)\\n\\n09:00\\xa0"Summer Celebrations in Mongolia"\\xa0(Times of London \\u2022 Dec 2007)\\n\\n10:00\\xa0"Enter Left"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 May 2016)\\n\\n17:00\\xa0"Inside the Snow Globe"\\xa0(Harper\\u2019s \\u2022 Jul 2011)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"The Bouvier Affair"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Feb 2016)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"How Football Leaks is Exposing Corruption in European Soccer"\\xa0New Yorker \\u2022 Jun 2019)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"How the Sandwich Consumed Britain"\\xa0(Guardian \\u2022 Nov 2017)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"The Spectacular Power of Big Lens"\\xa0(Guardian \\u2022 May 2018)\\n\\n27:00\\xa0"Sadiq Khan Takes on Brexit and Terror"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Jul 2017)\\n\\n27:00\\xa0"The Empty Promise of Boris Johnson"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Jun 2019)\\n\\n27:00\\xa0"Theresa May\\u2019s Impossible Choice"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Jul 2018)\\n\\n27:00\\xa0"Nicola Sturgeon\\u2019s Quest for Scottish Independence"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 May 2021)\\n\\n28:00\\xa0"Operation London Bridge: The Secret Plans for the Days After the Queen\'s Death"\\xa0(Guardian \\u2022 Mar 2017)\\n\\n30:00\\xa0"President Trump\\u2019s First Term"\\xa0(Evan Osnos \\u2022 New Yorker \\u2022 Sep 2016)\\n\\n30:00\\xa0"The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest"\\xa0(Kathryn Schulz \\u2022 New Yorker \\u2022 Jul 2015)\\n\\n34:00\\xa0The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold\\xa0(Penguin \\u2022 2022)\\n\\n45:00\\xa0"The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Mar 2019)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'