Rerun: #463 Mitchell S. Jackson (Nov 2021)

Published: May 18, 2022, 1:25 p.m.

Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery,\xa0\u201dTwelve Minutes and a Life,\u201d\xa0won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.\n\u201dWhat is 'great'? 'Great' isn\u2019t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@MitchSJackson\n\nmitchellsjackson.com\n\nJackson on Longform\n\n00:00\xa0"Twelve Minutes and a Life"\xa0(Runner\u2019s World \u2022 Jun 2020)\n\n01:00\xa0Pafko at the Wall\xa0(Don DeLillo \u2022 Scribner \u2022 2001)\n\n03:00\xa0"Ahmaud Arbery\u2019s Final Minutes: What Videos and 911 Calls Show"\xa0(Malachy Browne, Drew Jordan, Dmitriy Khavin and Ainara Tiefenthaler \u2022 New York Times \u2022 May 2020)\n\n12:00\xa0"We Went to Vegas to Wring Joy From Heartbreak"\xa0(New York Times Magazine \u2022 Sep 2021)\n\n16:00\xa0Survival Math\xa0(Scribner \u2022 2020)\n\n24:00\xa0The Residue Years\xa0(Bloomsbury \u2022 2014)\n\n29:00\xa0"Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Spanbauer Share Writing Secrets"\xa0(Jeff Baker \u2022 Oregonian \u2022 May 2014)\n\n34:00\xa0"When Michael B. Jordan Promises to Come Home, He Means It"\xa0(Esquire \u2022 Nov 2019)\n\n36:00\xa0"Chris Rock's Plan for Immortality"\xa0(Esquire \u2022 May 2021)\n\n44:00\xa0"Prison"\xa0(Richard Just, Editor \u2022 Washington Post \u2022 Oct 2019)\n\n44:00\xa0"Calendars"\xa0(Washington Post \u2022 Oct 2019)\n\n45:00\xa0Olio\xa0(Tyehimba Jess \u2022 Wave Books \u2022 2016)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices