Longform Podcast #506: Sam Anderson Your browser does not support the audio player. Click here to download the podcast. Show Notes @shamblanderson shamblanderson.com Anderson on Longform Anderson’s New York TImes Magazine archive [03:00] "Kevin Durant and (Possibly) the Greatest Basketball Team of All Time" (New York Times Magazine • June 2021) [05:00] "The Mind of John McPhee" (New York Times Magazine • Sept. 2017) [05:00] Draft No. 4 (John McPhee • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2017) [07:00] "The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami" (New York Times Magazine • Oct, 2011) [10:00] Boom Town (Crown • 2019) [19:00] "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson" (New York Times Magazine • March 2013) [20:00] "David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue" (New York Times Magazine • Aug. 2016) [35:00] "The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic" (New York Times Magazine • April 2022) [35:00] "The Mad Liberationist" (New York • May 2010) [35:00] "Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans" (New York Times Magazine • Nov. 2021) [35:00] "The Uses of ‘Mythologies’" (Richard Brody • New Yorker • April 2012)