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David Kushner, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired and The Atavist.\n\n"The minute you see an incredible character, you know. The only thing I can compare it to is bowling, not that I'm much of a bowler. On the few times I've thrown a strike, you know it before it hits the pins."\n\nThanks to TinyLetter and ProFlowers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow notes:\n@davidkushner\ndavidkushner.com\nKushner on Longform\n[1:00] "The Bones of Marianna" (The Atavist \u2022 Dec 2013)\n[8:15] "The Hacker is Watching" (GQ \u2022 Jan 2012)\n[8:45] Masters of Doom (Random House \u2022 2003)\n[8:45] Jacked (Wiley \u2022 2012)\n[28:45] "Prepare to Meet Thy Doom" (Wired \u2022 May 2003)\n[30:45] "Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse" (Rolling Stone \u2022 Dec 2007)\n[31:00] "Time Tunnels Meet Warped Passages" (IEEE Spectrum \u2022 Apr 2006)\n[37:45] "The WikiLeaks Mole" (Rolling Stone \u2022 Jan 2014)\n[41:45] Levittown (Walker & Company \u2022 2009)\n[43:30] "I Was a Teenage Freak" (Rolling Stone \u2022 Sep 2003)\n[48:00] "Anonymous vs. Steubenville" (Rolling Stone \u2022 Nov 2013)\n[49:45] "Dead End on Silk Road" (Rolling Stone \u2022 Feb 2014)\n[51:45] "Anonymous vs. Scientology" (Maxim \u2022 Jul 2008)\n[54:15] "Sponge-Fraud!" (Vanity Fair \u2022 Jun 2012)\n[57:15] Longform Podcast #64: Gay Talese\n[1:00:16] "Machine Politics" (New Yorker \u2022 May 2012)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices