Mattathias Schwartz has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Harper's.\n\n"I figure it's like digging through a wall with a spoon: if you spend enough time at it eventually you get to the other side."\n\nThanks to TinyLetter and Audible for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow notes:\nmattathiasschwartz.com\nSchwartz on Longform\n[4:00] "A Massacre in Jamaica" (New Yorker \u2022 Dec 2011)\n[20:15] The Philadelphia Independent\n[25:00] "The Hold-'Em Holdup" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Jun 2006)\n[26:45] "The Trolls Among Us" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Aug 2008)\n[26:45] "The Church of Warren Buffett" (Harper's \u2022 Jan 2010)\n[35:00] "The Golden Touch" (Harper's \u2022 Dec 2008)\n[36:00] The Big Con (David Maurer \u2022 Bobbs-Merrill Company \u2022 1940)\n[36:30] "The Still Lives of Wells Tower" (Paul Maliszewski \u2022 The Brooklyn Rail \u2022 Feb 2011)\n[37:00] "Petroleum, Louisiana"\n[37:00] "How Fast Can He Cook a Chicken?" (London Review of Books \u2022 Oct 2011)\n[49:00] "Camp Justice" (Kindle Single \u2022 Nov 2012)\n[50:45] "A Mission Gone Wrong" (New Yorker \u2022 Jan 2014)\n[53:15] "The Truth of El Mozote" (Mark Danner \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 Dec 1993)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices