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Episode 584: Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Episode 584: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Longform

2024/06/19
Longform

Longform

2024/06/19
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. His next book is The Message. “I don’t think we have the luxury as journalists of avoiding things because people might say bad things about us. I don’t even think we have the luxury of avoiding things because w...

Highlights

In its final episode, The Longform Podcast closes a two-decade run with a reflective and deeply personal conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates—their most frequent guest—centered on the power, peril, and purpose of narrative in an age of fragmentation and technological upheaval.
03:01
The Message is about how stories expose and distort realities
04:04
This is Ta-Nehisi Coates' final episode after 12 years
07:23
Social media made the blogging world harder and worse, turning writers reactionary
12:04
Writing is hard and painful but revelatory
25:52
Separate license plates, roads, and legal systems in the West Bank strike as undemocratic
38:26
David Carr saw potential in someone, and the speaker wishes he were here to report on AI and Twitter
40:01
Writers will find a way to keep doing long-form writing
42:06
Even if LLMs don't meet expectations, they'll be widely used and could cause problems

Chapters

The Final Chapter with Ta-Nehisi Coates
00:00
"Fear of a Black President" (The Atlantic • Sep 2012)
04:00
The Beautiful Struggle (One World • 2009)
05:00
"The Case for Reparations" (The Atlantic • Jun 2014)
12:00
Between the World and Me (One World • 2015)
13:00
"The Mask of Doom" (New Yorker • Sep 2009)
36:00
"How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I." (Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and Nic Grant • New York Times • Apr 2024)
40:00
Shell Game (Evan Ratliff • 2024)
42:00

Transcript

Evan Ratliff: Spring just slid into your DMs. Grab that boho, look for that rooftop dinner, those sandals that can keep up with you, and hang some string lights to give your patio a glow-up. Spring's calling. Ross, work your magic. Ta-Nehisi Coates: Yay t...