How to Write This Book The Queen

In this excerpt from the second bonus episode of The Queen, Dan Kois talks to Josh Levin about the process of writing the reporting-intensive book the podcast series is based on. They’re joined by a panel of three distinguished authors, who share their own lessons about what it takes to write a book-length investigation: David Grann, a New Yorker staff writer and the author of Killers of the Flower Moon ; James Forman Jr., winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America ; and Eliza Griswold, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for her book, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America . Join Slate Plus to unlock the every Slate Presents season, including The Queen—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts.

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How to Write This Book The Queen is an episode from Slate Presents: One Year by Slate Podcasts.

This episode is 20:49 long.

This episode was published on Jun 11, 2019.

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