Jean-Xavier de Lestrade is a French documentary filmmaker. He directed Murder on a Sunday Morning and The Staircase.

Taylor Lorenz just announced she is leaving her job covering internet culture for The Atlantic to join The New York Times.

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections of Self-Delusion.

Baxter Holmes is a senior writer for ESPN. He won the James Beard award for his 2017 article, “The NBA's Secret Addiction.”

Jenny Odell is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy"

Josh Levin is the national editor at Slate. He is the host of the podcast Hang Up and Listen and the author of "The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth"

Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer at the New York Times and the author of "Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel"

Renata Adler is a journalist, critic, and novelist. Her nonfiction collection is After the Tall Timber. “Unless you're going to be fairly definite, what's the point of writing?” Thanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. Adler on Longform Adler's New Yorker archive [7:00] I, Libertine (Theodore Sturgeon • Ballantine Books • 1956) [8:00] After Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction (Ballantine Books • 2015) [9:00] "Letter from Selma" (New Yorker • Apr 1965) [9:00] "Fly Trans-love Airways" (New Yorker • Feb 1967) [15:00] "Letter from Israel" (New Yorker • Jun 1967) [sub req'd] [17:00] "Letter from Biafra" (New Yorker • Oct 1969) [sub req'd] [34:00] Adler's New York Times film reviews archive [47:00] "An American Original: Excerpts from Pat Moynihan's letters" (Steven Weisman • Vanity Fair • Oct 2010) [50:00] "The Perils of Pauline" (The New York Review of Books • Aug 1980) [1:08:00] "Two Trials" (New Yorker • June 1986) [sub req'd] [1:09:00] Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS, et al; Sharon v. Time (Knopf • 1986) [1:03:00] Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker (Simon & Schuster • 1999) [1:10:00] "Decoding the Starr Report" (Vanity Fair • Dec 1998) [1:19:00] Canaries in a Mineshaft: Essay on Politics and Media (St. Martin's Press • 2001)

Alex Mar has written for The Believer, Wired, and New York. She is the author of Witches of America and the director of the documentary American Mystic.

David Epstein has reported for ProPublica, Sports Illustrated, and This American Life. His new book is Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.

Michael Pollan writes for The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker and is the author of nine books. His latest is How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transce

Casey Cep has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic. She is the author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.

Mark Adams is the author of Mr. America and Turn Right at Machu Picchu. His latest book is Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier.

Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and a co-host of Political Gabfest. Her latest book is Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.

Sloane Crosley is the author of "I Was Told There’d Be Cake" and "How Did You Get This Number." Her latest essay collection is "Look Alive Out There."

Christine Kenneally has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Monthly. Her 2018 Buzzfeed article, “The Ghosts of the Orphanage,” was nominated for a National Magazine Award.

David Wallace-Wells is the deputy editor of New York and the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.

Linda Villarosa directs the journalism program at the City College of New York, and is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. Her article "Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis" was one of Longform's Top Ten o

Michael Lewis is the author of several bestselling books and the host of the podcast Against the Rules.

Hillary Frank is the creator of The Longest Shortest Time podcast and the author of Weird Parenting Wins.

Casey Newton covers Silicon Valley for The Verge and writes The Interface newsletter.

Wesley Morris is a critic at large for The New York Times, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and the co-host of Still Processing.

Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, is the author of "The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal."

Kiese Laymon is the author of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and Heavy: An American Memoir.

Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at the New Yorker. His latest book is "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland"