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Podcast: Towers of Babel
Episode: Interview: Elizabeth Kolbert
Description: I’m delighted to share a conversation I recently had with Elizabeth Kolbert. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, Elizabeth is also the author of The Sixth Extinction, which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. I contacted Elizabeth to follow up on her interview with Evan Ratliff on the Longform podcast last year. The question that especially caught my ear: When she sits down to write, does she think her work will have an impact? Does she think it will change anything? And she said: “I still nurse the idea in my heart...