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Extended Mileage in Someone Elses Shoes: Ted Conover on Immersive Journalism

Published: Jan. 24, 2017, 5:46 p.m.

Ted Conover is an American journalist and author, known for fully immersing himself in the world of the subjects he covers. Conover writes about the people we understand the least by attempting to live their lives. Whether he\u2019s riding freight trains with the homeless or navigating the ethical pitfalls of being a prison guard, he walks a mile in their shoes so we don\u2019t have to.

His newest book is\xa0Immersion: A Writer\u2019s Guide to Going Deep, and in this week\u2019s episode of Point of Inquiry

, Conover discloses to host Lindsay Beyerstein what some of the most difficult moments of his immersion-journalism career have been, and reveals some of the tricks of the trade for getting close to your subjects without losing yourself in the process.