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January 27, 2019 - Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a writer at large for the New York Times Magazine, a contributing writer at WIRED, and a contributing editor at Harper’s. He’s the author of a travel memoir called A Sense of Direction, and he teaches nonfiction in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia. Here, he talks with Jacob about ideal story length (100 pages, anyone?), why it took months to work out the structure of his latest NYT Magazine piece, how he uses detail, and more. You can find his work here.

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" Why settle for a paltry 140 characters when you can luxuriate in 66,500? I've loved going back to writing longform pieces for The New York Times Magazine, and I love reading the ones Don and Jacob compile. It's a cool antidote to our national A.D.D. "

Maureen Dowd New York Times columnist

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