Episode 86: Mattathias Schwartz

Published: April 2, 2014, 4:29 p.m.

b'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'