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b'Sam Anderson is a writer for\\xa0New York Times Magazine\\xa0and the author of\\xa0Boom Town.\\n\\u201cI love being in that place where everything is just coming in, and everything is potentially important, and I\\u2019m underlining every great sentence that John McPhee has ever written and then I\\u2019m typing it up into this embarrassingly long set of reading notes, documents, organized by books. And then when you sit down with it as a writer who has a job, and his job is to fill a little window of a magazine or website, all of that ecstatic inhaling has to stop. You realize that you\\u2019ve collected approximately 900,000% of what you need or could ever use.\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@shamblanderson\\n\\nshamblanderson.com\\n\\nAnderson on Longform\\n\\nAnderson\\u2019s\\xa0New York TImes Magazine\\xa0archive\\n\\n03:00\\xa0"Kevin Durant and (Possibly) the Greatest Basketball Team of All Time"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 June 2021)\\n\\n05:00\\xa0"The Mind of John McPhee"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Sept. 2017)\\n\\n05:00\\xa0Draft No. 4\\xa0(John McPhee \\u2022 Farrar, Straus and Giroux \\u2022 2017)\\n\\n07:00\\xa0"The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Oct, 2011)\\n\\n10:00\\xa0Boom Town\\xa0(Crown \\u2022 2019)\\n\\n19:00\\xa0"The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 March 2013)\\n\\n20:00\\xa0"David\\u2019s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World\\u2019s Most Perfect Statue"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Aug. 2016)\\n\\n35:00\\xa0"The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 April 2022)\\n\\n35:00\\xa0"The Mad Liberationist"\\xa0(New York \\u2022 May 2010)\\n\\n35:00\\xa0"Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Nov. 2021)\\n\\n35:00\\xa0"The Uses of \\u2018Mythologies\\u2019"\\xa0(Richard Brody \\u2022 New Yorker \\u2022 April 2012)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'