Merve (Marva) Emre
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82 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Welcome to The Critic and Her Publix from the New York Review of Books and Lit Hub.
I'm your host, Marva Emre.
In season four of this live series, I talk with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answers they're looking for.
What makes a good question?
How do you listen for what's unsaid?
And how hard do you have to push someone before they say something new?
You're listening to Tell Me More, the art of the interview.
Sarah Stillman is a staff writer at The New Yorker and one of the most decorated investigative reporters of her generation.
She's won several national magazine awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and a MacArthur Genius Grant.
Her articles draw attention to the men and women forced to do the bidding of the American security state, the third country nationals tricked into working on military bases in Iraq, the addicts coerced into serving as informants, and the victims of civil asset forfeiture.
Our conversation touched on every stage of Sarah's career, from her days as a student journalist to her current directorship of Yale's investigative reporting lab.
As a teacher, she helps students cultivate the relentlessness and the compassion that makes her a uniquely effective reporter.
So most of the people in this room are college students who probably have some interest in journalism and might look to your career as an example of how a journalist can move through the world.
You weren't always a reporter for The New Yorker.
Could you tell us briefly how you got from where many of them are in college to where you are today?
I'm going to ask a question, and maybe it's an impossible question to answer.
Many people on seeing that ticker tape would just have kept working out.
They would not have thought to do what you did, to go back and call the sheriff's office and get the name and look through the public records.
Do you remember what made you want to do that?
What made you motivated to pay attention to it instead of just letting it?
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