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Cover Story
Interviews with journalists and editors about their work.
September 14, 2021
Covering Donald Trump
What's it like to cover Donald Trump? In this episode, veteran American journalist Allen Salkin explains. For over three decades, Salkin has written…
August 31, 2021
Local Long-Form Journalism
David Schmalz is a staff writer at the Monterey County Weekly, where his longform pieces have won numerous awards from the California News Publishers …
August 17, 2021
Covering New York Politics
David Freedlander is a veteran New York City-based journalist. He writes long-form features about politics and the arts, people and ideas, and has app…
August 3, 2021
Sarah Hepola on Drinking in a "Dry" Texas County
Welcome to Cover Story, a podcast by New Books Network devoted to long form journalism. Today, we are talking to Texas-based writer Sarah Hepola. Hepo…
July 20, 2021
Knitting and Politics in the Age of Trump
Today we are talking to a New Yorker staff writer Carrie Battan about her piece from March of this year "How Politics Tested Ravelry and the Crafting …
July 13, 2021
What Can Wittgenstein Teach Us About Raising Our Kids?
Ryan Ruby is a writer and translator from Los Angeles, California. His fiction and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris …
June 22, 2021
No Choice: Why Is It So Hard to Get an Abortion in the South?
Today we are talking with Becca Andrews, a journalist at Mother Jones, where she writes about reproductive rights and gender. The story we discuss is …
June 8, 2021
Writing Engaged History
Matthew Karp is a historian of the U.S. Civil War era and its relationship to the nineteenth-century world. He received his Ph.D. in History from the …
May 25, 2021
Free Tax Prep That's Not Free
In this episode, we are talking to ProPublica investigative journalist Justin Elliott. Justin has been with ProPublica since 2012 and writes about b…
May 18, 2021
N+1: "Like Partisan Review, but Not Dead"
In this episode, we are talking to Mark Krotov, the publisher and co-editor of n + 1, a magazine of politics, essays and fiction described once: “like…
May 11, 2021
Can we Disagree Online Respectfully?
In this episode, we are talking to a British writer Ian Leslie, a journalist and author of acclaimed books on human behavior. His latest book, Conflic…
May 4, 2021
The Work of Editing a Magazine
In this episode, we are talking to writer and editor Chris Lehmann, an editor of The Baffler, a former managing editor of The New Republic and a forme…
April 27, 2021
Can Journalism Be Saved?
There is no better person to start this journey than with journalist Nicholas Lemann, who has been observing the industry, also long-form journalism, …