Episode 502: Graciela Mochkofsky

Published: Sept. 7, 2022, 5:49 p.m.

b'Graciela Mochkofsky is a writer for\\xa0The New Yorker\\xa0and dean of CUNY\'s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She has written six nonfiction books in Spanish. Her new book, her first in English, is\\xa0The Prophet of the Andes.\\n\\u201cIt connects with me as a journalist, actually \\u2014 it\\u2019s this idea of just seeking truth and how elusive that is. So this is a person who thinks he can get to the true meaning of God and of how he needs to live. And he thinks that by asking the right questions, and by reading, and reading, and reading, and by discussing collectively, he can get to the truth. And he can\\u2019t.\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@gmochkofsky\\n\\n\\xa0Mochkofsky on Longform\\n\\nMochkofsky\\u2019s\\xa0New Yorker\\xa0archive\\n\\n03:00\\xa0Timerman: El periodista que quiso ser parte del poder\\xa0(Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina \\u2022 2012)\\n\\n14:00\\xa0The Sirens of Mars\\xa0(Sarah Stewart Johnson \\u2022 Crown \\u2022 2021)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"The Missing Borges"\\xa0(The Paris Review \\u2022 April 2014)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"Henry Kissinger Will Not Apologize"\\xa0(The Atlantic \\u2022 Nov 2016)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"Obama\\u2019s Bittersweet Visit to Argentina"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 March 2016)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0"Mexico\\u2019s Literary Prankster Goes to War With His Publisher"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Dec 2015)\\n\\n25:00\\xa0"CUNY\\u2019s New Spanish-Language Journalism Program, With Big Ambitions, Opens for Applications"\\xa0(Shan Wang \\u2022 Nieman Lab \\u2022 March 2016)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'