Episode 8: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Gideon Lewis Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction, interviewed by Aaron Lammer.
“My best friend, who is a fiction writer, she once said to me that she saw a lot of the things I was doing as ‘wring tenderness from absurdity.’ That wouldn’t have occurred to me to put it that way, but that does seem to me [what] I like to do…. I am someone who can very easily be dismissive, or even contemptuous. And one of the things I like about reporting a story, particularly reporting a story that is ultimately, counterintuitively, positive, is that it gives me a chance to work through that, and be the more tender, sympathetic person that I would like to be in real life.”
Show notes and links:
- A Sense of Direction on Amazon
- “In Search of the Living, Purring, Singing Heart of the Online Cat-Industrial Complex” (Wired • Aug 2012)
- “Tokeville: On the Frontiers of Federalism and Dope” (Harper’s • Dec 2009)
- “The Last Book Party” (Harper’s • Mar 2009)
- Lewis-Kraus on Longform
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