Writers are smart
For the past five and a half years, I have been interviewing writers as part of Article Club. It's been a lot of fun. Two things are always abundantly clear:
- Writers are generous people
- Writers are smart people
Coming out next Thursday is a conversation with Gideon Lewis-Kraus, who wrote “The End of Children,” published in The New Yorker.
Much of the interview is about how Mr. Lewis-Kraus structured the story — about how he spent time in South Korea, but wanted the piece to consider the fall in feritlity rates as a global issue, and the current political discourse in the United States as mostly silly.
This is what he had to say about how he and his editor decided on beginning his piece.
It's wonderfully rewarding to be able to talk to the best writers out there. Sadly, with the shuttering of the Longform podcast, there are fewer places where these kinds of conversations happen. Even though I’m by no means a professional interviewer, I’m very happy that writers come on Article Club to discuss craft. (Don’t even get me started about the advent of AI!)