The staff writer Dana Goodyear has reported on California extensively: the entertainment industry; a deadly crime spree in Malibu; Kamala Harris’s rise in politics; and the ever more fragile environment. She covered the destructive Woolsey Fire, in Los Angeles, in 2018. Recently, Goodyear found her own life very much in the center of the story. Living in Pacific Palisades, she had to evacuate early this month, and she documented her return days later to a scene of devastation in this audio story. “The house just is an idea of a house, or the aftermath of a house,” she said. “You can walk through the arched door at the front and the back, but there’s just pretty much nothing in between.”
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Staff writer Dana Goodyear has reported on California, the entertainment industry, a deadly crime spree in Malibu, Kamala Harris' rise in politics, and the ever more fragile environment in the state. Dana has lived for a long time in Los Angeles, in the neighborhood of the Pacific Palisades.
And recently, she and her family found their lives very much at the center of the story. you
so you you have a press pass and you're trying to get up there is that well i guess my question to you is what's your ultimate goal today i have combined goals um so i write for the new yorker magazine it's long form non-fiction journalism okay and i need to be seeing things that all the heroic emergency operations people are doing and i also need to figure out what in the hell is going on at my house because we haven't been able to see it okay and i know it's gone but
More than that.
Yeah, I'm sorry for that.
Well, I mean, the thing that's so weird for me is that I've reported on so many fires, and I just can't believe that... It happened to you. I can't believe it. The beautiful Palisades. It's just... Unreal. I'm driving up Chautauqua, and I have an absolute pit in my stomach. I know I'm about to see the neighborhood, but this is the road that I drove up every day.
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