{"id":1420,"date":"2013-03-24T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T19:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2013-03-24T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T19:08:35","slug":"podthoughts-longform-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: Longform Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/longform.org\/assets\/application\/flags\/sections\/podcast-657a52005e8441f85f80d49a05af98a4.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vital stats:<\/strong><br \/>\nFormat: interviews with writers and editors of long-form articles<br \/>\nEpisode duration: 35m-1h<br \/>\nFrequency: weekly<\/p>\n<p>Say 3:00 a.m. has rolled around. I\u2019ve walked my lady home, downed whatever wine remained in the night\u2019s bottle, sent the day\u2019s last few dangling e-mails, read two or three page-downs on Twitter, glanced at Facebook, and checked the\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0for anything new from Anthony Lane. I<em>could<\/em>\u00a0go to bed. Or I could check\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longform.org\/\">Longform.org<\/a>. Though I rarely admit it, I only direct my browser that way in hopes of finding a 3,000-, 5,000-, or \u2014 jackpot \u2014 10,000-word article so interesting as to deprioritize sleep and the dull preparations it demands. I imagine you\u2019ve done this too. If you happen to have a day job, maybe you\u2019ve burned hours of your employer\u2019s time \u2014 even days of it \u2014 reading articles aggregated by Longform and its ilk (<a href=\"http:\/\/longreads.com\/\">Longreads<\/a>, say), luxuriating in a combination of boredom, fascination, and sheer spite. I had to ditch my own day job after envisioning the decades ahead melting into an ocean of text, often damned interesting but essentially opiate.<\/p>\n<p>Though I no longer rely on Longform as that sort of drip-feed, it has remained in my night-elongating rotation \u2014 no morning pressure to get to \u201cthe office,\u201d after all \u2014 and I took notice when the site began putting out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/longform.org\/podcast\">a podcast<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/longform.libsyn.com\/rss\">RSS<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/longform\/id551088534\">iTunes<\/a>]. The show delivers not audio versions of long-form articles but interviews with the sort of people who write and commission them: folks from\u00a0<em>New York<\/em>\u00a0magazine, the\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>&#8230; you know, the publications whose sites you pull up after dark looking for an extended distraction. (Also publications with \u201cNew York\u201d in the title. Longform does have its office, I believe, in New York, but guys, come on \u2014 America has\u00a0<em>two<\/em>\u00a0cities.) Built at the intersection of an addiction to long-form articles and a compulsion to listen to interview podcasts, the\u00a0<em>Longform Podcast<\/em>\u00a0should sit right in my personal (and thus professional) wheelhouse. Yet I approached with trepidation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2013\/03\/24\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-longform-podcast\">at Maximumfun.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vital stats: Format: interviews with writers and editors of long-form articles Episode duration: 35m-1h Frequency: weekly Say 3:00 a.m. has rolled around. I\u2019ve walked my lady home, downed whatever wine remained in the night\u2019s bottle, sent the day\u2019s last few dangling e-mails, read two or three page-downs on Twitter, glanced at Facebook, and checked the\u00a0New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podthoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}