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Wil S. Hylton, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Vanished.\n\n"I despise the fucking nut graf. I think it's a joke, a cop out. The story probably should be about something larger than itself but if you have to tell people what that is, you've failed form the beginning. If they can't find it, you didn't put it there and you shouldn't be beating them over the head with it."\n\nThanks to TinyLetter and The Fog Horn for sponsoring this week's episode, and to the Writing Department at the University of Pittsburgh for hosting.\n\nShow notes:\n@wilshylton\nwilshylton.com\nHylton on Longform\n[1:45] Longform Podcast #28: Joel Lovell (live)\n[2:15] Vanished (Riverhead Books\u2022 2013)\n[7:45] "The Search for the Lost Marines of Tarawa" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Nov 2013)\n[11:30] "The Return of the Trolls" (Baltimore Sun \u2022 Apr 1992)\n[24:15] Longform Podcast #66: Andy Ward\n[25:00] "There Goes the Neighborhood, Up in Flames" (Esquire \u2022 Aug 1999)\n[31:15] "Hot Enough For Ya?" (Esquire \u2022 Aug 2000)\n[35:45] "The People vs. Richard Cheney" (GQ \u2022 Mar 2007)\n[36:15] "Casualty of War" (GQ \u2022 Jun 2004)\n[36:15] "The Big, Bad Wolfowitz?" (GQ \u2022 Dec 2003)\n[41:45] "Meltdown" (GQ \u2022 Feb 2008)\n[42:30] "How James Turrell Knocked the Art World Off Its Feet" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 June 2013)\n[47:15] "What Happened to Air France Flight 447?" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 May 2011)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices