The final episode of the Longform Podcast, a conversation with John Jeremiah Sullivan, was posted today. Since the podcast started in 2012, hosts Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff have published 585 conversations with writers, editors, and artists. At Vulture, Longform fans and media critics pick some of the pod’s best episodes.
Harper’s Magazine management has voluntarily recognized the staff’s union, which was won through a unanimous card check last week.
At Wired, Laura Kipnis writes about her participation in (and initial skepticism of) a new AI publishing venture called Rebind. The company works by collecting commentary on great books from writers like Kipnis, John Banville, Chloe Cooper Jones, and Roxane Gay, and then using that commentary to train an AI bot to respond to readers’ questions. “The nihilist in me thinks if humans are going to perish, we might as well perish reading the classics,” writes Kipnis, who contributed commentary on Romeo and Juliet for Rebind.
Joanna Biggs is joining the Yale Review as deputy editor. She is currently a senior editor at Harper’s and previously worked at the London Review of Books. Her most recent book, A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again, was published last year.