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Let me list the accolades and accomplishments of Robert Kolker:
- Best-selling author of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family and Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
- Lost Girls is now a Netflix film
- Hidden Valley Road was recommended not only by Oprah, but also Barrack Obama
- His features have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Wired, and Oprah Magazine, among others.
His latest is “Dead Reckoning” for The Atavist Magazine, and it chronicles the greatest peacetime nautical disaster in U.S. history. It deals with skepticism over technology, honor, fathers and sons, hubris, and many other juicy themes.
First we talk to Jonah Ogles, the lead editor of this piece, and Jonah talks about the difference between a pitch/writer who “has the goods” vs. a “Wikipedia” pitch. The latter is NOT good.
Bob riffs on interviewing, organizing, and we deconstruct a sentence of his that is especially fun to read aloud.
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