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Josh Levin is a podcaster, author, and editor in Washington, D.C.
Podcasts
Slate’s sports show, co-hosted with Joel Anderson and Stefan Fatsis. Once a week since 2010.
In the 1970s, Linda Taylor became a fur-wearing, Cadillac-driving symbol of the undeserving poor. But the original “welfare queen” was demonized for the least of her crimes. Taylor was a con artist, a kidnapper, maybe even a murderer. This is the never-before-told story of a singular American character, lost in the rush to create a vicious stereotype.
- Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and long-listed for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
- Named one of the best books of 2019 by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, Mother Jones, NPR’s Code Switch, The Root, the National Book Review, and the Chicago Public Library.
- Based on the 2013 Slate article “The Welfare Queen.”
- Also adapted into a four-part narrative podcast.
Journalism
With Susan Matthews and Molly Olmstead.
Before he was Philip Roth’s biographer, Blake Bailey taught the eighth grade. His students say he made them feel special. They worshipped him. They trusted him. He used it all against them.