Episode 508: Erika Hayasaki
Oct 19, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Erika Hayasaki has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Atlantic. Her new book is Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family.
“I don’t subscribe to the belief that it’s our story because we’re the journalist that wrote it — especially when people are sharing these really intimate, deep, painful moments. That is not my story. That’s their story that they've collaborated in a way with me to share through these interviews.”
Show notes:
@ErikaHayasaki
erikahayasaki.com
Hayasaki on Longform
Hayasaki’s Atlantic archive
04:00 "Hiroshima" (John Hersey • New Yorker • Aug. 1946)
12:00 "A deadly hush in Room 211 — then the killer returned" (Los Angeles Times • April 2007)
16:00 "A Criminal Mind" (California Sunday Magazine • Oct. 2015)
17:00 "In a Perpetual Present" (Wired • April 2016)
18:00 Somewhere Sisters (Algonquin Books • 2022)
19:00 "Identical Twins Hint at How Environments Change Gene Expression" (The Atlantic • May 2018)
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